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WI LL OF
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In the name
"
:Nf�RA
FALLS
God Amen:
of
(
l;iagara and
the Province
considering the
body and �emory:
make and
to say: :
that is
follo\'1ing,
of all
First
resi gn
I
certainty
my l as t will and
publish this
payment
the
after
give anc;
I
r.iy soul
�er
I
also
give
thurther
devise
and
devise
f or ever ,
one
friend
one town
the
to
God
who
that all my
to :·1y belov:<_
past
of
my share of the
belonging;
my
s har e
hereinafter
personal;
both r e al and
t o my ne p h e w John
to
him
Cooper,
two
ll.is heirs and
farm lot in the village
town
Be n j a mi n Willson of Bertie,
Grist MI11,
together with
now erecting at Fort Erie Rapids:
of my lands
n es se d and informed by or der ;
of land,
'
•
heirs
give
ar
and
and assigns
the
half
one
thereun
the whole
will-and desire,
c
I!la
he
provided
of said Eill.
,
be s o l d
in or d e r
for
to
disÂ
t hat purpose,
a n d they are hereby witÂ
to sell and discharge
to use:
..
\
should
forever.
I
together with
the erecting said share
have will and �esire tha t my e xe cut ors ,
following iots
the
the appurtinances
Should it be deemed necessary by my executors
I
lots in
aforesaid.
by my br o t her and partner Ephriam Alexander;
charge my debts, that any
her
his
his heirs
lot in the vi lla ge of Waterloo,
finds his medns ad e q ua t e t o
to
assigns
of Waterloo.
of the lands belonging to t he said Mill I
be retained
paid.
�-iifc Susa1: "�2:·:�anc'.er
paid in legacys
estate
be
debts
I thurther will and devise to my belove d wife Susan,
(
form
gaveit.
devise to my nephew Alexander C o o per ,
give and
to my
in manner and
tes��ment,
forever.
Wat e rl oo in Bertie;
forever;
assigns
all my
heirs and assigns
Village of
I
�:_evise
is
of my debts,
ma d e ;
�entioned and
do
mortal_life
of this
:
S e c on d l y my will and aesire
Thir::lly,
b ei ng week of
merchant:
of Upper Canada,
of my
share of the
�tot number
rour
·.··1t'.·
f our th ,
third;
a nd
.;_ertie
fr ont-_i ng Fi
' ' arara
b
five in the
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•.
...
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Township of
in the
concessions
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and
seventy six acres more or less·.
will and
I also
before men ti oned ,
applied
or d e r
that all my
o th er lands
be sol d by m..v executors,
to wards the payment of_m:y debts.
not
...
here-
and the proceeds
I h e reby make kn own,
and wish to be understood that in the year of 1812 a verbal
agreement of,Compartnership,
and entered into and by and between
my brother Ephriam Alexander, in the vending and selling of goods
-and-handaling of Merchantial affairs,
which-he my said brother
E�hriam Alexander and to his heirs and assign s ,
share of said Grist �till,
Commerce on the
that said
to have an eq�al
Compartnership in Trade and
first day of Augus t and was to have ended on the
firs t day of August 1817;
Ephriam Alexa n der.
and that name and
form was Hugh and
Also that my said brother Ephria m is and has
been and equal partner with me in the storing and
forwarding of
goods and commonly caled the forwarding:
Having'since
1815, and
that my
dwelling house,
the commencement of that establishment in
said
and
half
o f the
desire that the merchantile and
forwarding
c arri ed on by said br ot her Ephriam in c on junc t i on
business be
of
owning the one
forwarding s tore and wharf at Fort
out h ouses ,
Eri e :I t is my will
my beloved
brother Ephriam
wife
so l ong
as
wi
they may think proper so to do:And las
hereby a ppoi nt James Macklem e_�j Jamrs Cummings of Chip
all, I
E s quire , and
John War ren
of Bertie Esquire,
executors to, this my
last will and testament.
In witness whereo f I have
Fort Erie,
the thirteenth day
he reunt o let my hand
of October
in the
year
and seal at
of
v
our
L rd
one thdusan.d-ei-glit htihdred a.nd-sevent-een.-Hugh
Signed sealed
and declared ,
.
published
Alexand�l',. i;o
be his last
will and tes�,a.ment
of us who have hereunto ins c rib ed
presence
of
the testator.
JXMES COOPER
CHARLES HILL
. Benjamin
·
..
by this.
our
names
�"�()ye
fJ1 ��}i,e
a.s witn�sk�$
na med
pr esenc e
in the
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Ontario
77 Grenville Sire•
Archives of
Ministry of
Ontario
Culture and
Queen's Park
9 6 5- 688 3
Te1 :
Toronto, Ontario
M?A 2R9
Recreation
December
3 1,
1980
Mr. Louis M. McDermott
108
High Street
Fort
Erie
Ontario
Dear Mr.
McDermott:
A print-out copy of the will of Ephraim Alexander
(G.S. ONT.l-649,#Al02)
and will follow this
died in 1820,
is currently being processed
letter with invoice.
no reference to the latter.
Cayuga County,
The
This man
predeceasing Hugh Alexander and there is
The only property was in
New York.
will of Hugh Alexander,
verbal agreements,
drawn up in
1817,
refers
to
and to the grist mill at Fort Erie
Rapids now erecting, "providing he furnished means
adequate to the erecting of said share of said mill."
Perhaps it was abandoned.
I
checked library material such as
Niagara Historical
Society,
publications of the
and W.D. Reid's books of
marriage and death notices in Ontario,
these names.
but did
not find
If more time was available church records
might be found or indexe-s
is the possibility that
and deeds searched.
There
their residence was elsewhere
at the time of their deaths.
Yours truly,
(_)
n�%�
Joyce Strang
(Mrs.)
Archivist's Assistant,
(
Government Records Section
l
JS:smd
.
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