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Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835

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Reference8360
Family NameJOHNSON
Given NamesNicholas
Was there a Will? Yes
Date of Will1832-12-06
Date Will was proved1835-01-17
Was an inventory completed? Yes
Date of inventory1835-02-23
CountyCharlotte
ParishSt. Andrews
Probate is for a woman? No
Abstract references a vessel? No
Abstract Parish of St. Andrews, Charlotte County, Farmer. Will dated 6 December 1832, proved 17 January 1835. Sons Thomas and Benjamin all personal estate. Sons Thomas, Benjamin and William (now an infant) all real estate. Wife Ann an annuity of £50 and use of half the farm. For support of son William, £20 yearly until age 21. Son Robert £100. Son Gordon £5. Daughters Mary McSTAY and Catherine AYMAR each £5. Lydia Ann BRYANT, daughter of Jacob BRYANT, £10 for her kindness toward me. Son Thomas JOHNSON, David W. JACK and Thomas SIME executors. Witnesses: Alfred L. STREET, James W. STREET, Elias GREENLAW. On 8 January 1835 son Gordon JOHNSON contested the will; on 13 January 1835 W. C. McSTAY, in right of his wife, contested the will, and on the same date submitted a certification, as Physician and Surgeon, that he had been the Medical Attendant on Nicholas JOHNSON and his family for the past fifteen years, and that the deceased was not in a fit state of mind to make any transaction of importance. Despite the protests, the will was proved on 17 January. Inventory, dated 23 February 1835, valued at £1,790 by the executors, Thomas JOHNSON and David W. JACK, included Lot 43 granted in the Penobscot Association valued at £800 and two other lots of real estate valued together at £850.
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