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826 Possessed of a Considerable real and personall Estate did for the more equall distribution thereof amongst his Children Viz.t the said Minor and four Daughters and for the Enlargement of his personall Estate that the said Minor & his sisters might have a greater shore thereof make his last Will & Testament in writeing and thereby ordered a part of his reall Estate to be sold for the payment of his Debts (to the End his psonall Estate might not be Imposed thereby) and Constituted his the aforementioned Eliz.a his Ex.rx thereby Intending as your orat.r hopes to make it sufficiently appear by the Drawer of the said will and diverse Circumstances & Wittness Viva Voce that she should only have the administration of the said Testators personall Estate with the usuall pquisites & sallarys due to adm.rs and that she should have her third part thereof after his Debts paid and that the residue should be equally divided amongst his said Children according to the Directions of a paragraph in an Act of Assembly of this province directing the manner of distributeing the an Intestates Estate psonal Estate that as well the said Testator as the Drawer of the said will did both (as they plainly Expressed themselves to the then by standers and others) verily beleive & were of opinion that such of the said Testators goods and Chattells as were not Expressedy otherwase given by will according to the Direction of the Act afd That therefore thô the Testator was allways knowne to be a most affectionate tender father of his Children and never guilty of so much fondness towards his said wife as to suffer his love to her to withdraw his affections in the least from his Children Yet through his Misunderstanding of the Law in the premises he made no Express bequest of any of his personall Estate to his Children in the said Will but only gave some few Inconsiderable Legacys of Remembrance to some perticular relations and so perfected the said will by the Usuall requisites thereto that the said Testator as well before and afterward as at the time of makeing said will always [illegible] (his |
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