Description Will of William Fraser of Landsdowne, Pictou Co., NS

(Handwritten)

Will of William Fraser, Deceased

Certified Copy for Reg of Deeds

In the name of God Amen.

I William Fraser of Landsdowne in the County of Pictou Province of Nova Scotia being in good bodily health and of sound and disposing mind and memory calling to mind the frailty of human life and being desirous of settling my worldly affairs and writing how the estate with which it hath pleased God to bless me shall be disposed of after my decease while I have strength and capacity so to do make and publish this my  last will and Testament

hereby revoking and making null and void all other wills and Testaments  by me heretofore made.

And first I commend my immortal being to Him who gave it and my body to earth to be buried with little expense or ostentation by my executors hereinafter named. And as to my worldly estate and all the property real and personal or mixed of which I shall die Seized and possessed or to which I shall be entitled  at the time of my decease I devise bequeath and dispose thereof in the manner following to wit,

My will is that all my just debts and funeral charges shall by my executors hereinafter named be paid out of my estate  as soon after my decease as shall by them be found expedient

I give devise and bequeath to my son John Thomas Fraser all my real estate farming implements household furniture horses cattle sheep and one hundred dollars in cash

 I  give and bequeath to my son James Alexander McKay one hundred Dollars cash

I  give and bequeath to my Grandchild Janet Hudson fifty dollars in cash

I  give and bequeath to my children Catherine Ann Hudson, Jane Christy Fraser, Donald Robert Fraser, William Simon Fraser, Neil Francis Fraser and Samuel Gordon Fraser the sum of five Dollars each

All the rest and the residue of my estate real and personal or mixed of which I shall die Seized and possessed or to which I shall be entitled  at the time of my decease I give devise and bequeath to my son John Thomas Fraser first above mentioned

Lastly I do nominate and appoint Daniel Ross and John Thomas Fraser both of Landsdowne to be the Executors of this my last Will and Testament

In Testimony Whereof I the said William Fraser have to this my last Will and Testament Contained on one sheet of paper and to this sheet thereof Subscribe my name this fourth day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and four

Signed      William Fraser

The above instrument of one sheet was now here Subscribed by William Fraser the Testator in the presence of each of us and was the at the time declared by him to be his last Will and Testament and he then acknowledged to each of us that he subscribed the same and we at his request signed our names hereto as attesting witnesses.

Signed            John Thomas Kerr residing at Burnside Pictou

 Signed          Angus McLeod residing at Burnside Pictou

Province of Nova Scotia

County of Pictou S.S.

In the Court of Probate of Wills

I John D. McLeod Registrar of said Court do hereby certify that the foregoing paper writing is a true copy of the last Will and Testament of William Fraser late of Landsdowne in the County of Pictou Farmer deceased  which said will  was duly admitted to Probate in said Court at Pictou on the 1st  day of May  AD 1908.

Witness my hand at Pictou aforesaid this 1st day of May AD 1908.

John D. MacLeod  Registrar

Stamp - PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA, REGISTRAR OF DEEDS Office, County of Pictou,  AUG 26 1908  I certify that the within instrument was duly registered at 12:30 PM of the above day in Book 4, page 295  on the certificate of John D. MacLeod Reg

John Yorston  Registrar.