Will of William Brown - 1st Dec 1845                Orleans Parish
Submitted by:  Pattie Causey September 2003
Source:  Wills, Louisiana Probate Court, Orleans Parish, Volume 8
         Louisiana Division 
         Main Branch, New Orleans Public Library
         Also available through the Family History Library

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WILLIAM BROWN, Book 8, page 192

"Brown
filed 1st Decr. 1845

United States of America
State of Louisiana
Parish & City of New Orleans

Be it known that on this day the twenty sixth of November in the year of our 
Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty five and in the Seventieth year of the 
Independence of the United States of America at Eleven O'Clock A.M.
At the request of William Brown a resident of Hancock County State of 
Mississippi I André Detremont Doricourt a notary public for the Parish & city, 
of New Orleans, duly commissioned & sworn did repair to the Hospital of Dr. 
Luzenberg situated on Champs Elysees street in the third Municipality of said 
city & there found the said William Brown sick in bed, but of sound mind memory 
& understanding as he appeared to me notary and to Messieurs John William 
Mueller, William Ferdinand Charles Duplessis, Joseph Baker witnesses and said 
William Brown requested me to receive his last will & testament which I have 
done under his dictation in the following words:

He declared that he was born in the town of Carlshamn in the Kingdom of Sweden, 
That his real name is Olaf Lindquist, that his father & mother are both dead, 
that he has never been married & that he has a brother named Hakan Lindquist now 
living in the aforesaid town of Carlshamn that his property consists in a farm 
together with the Stock thereto belonging situated in Hancock county State of 
Mississippi and of twelve hundred dollars in the Bank of Louisiana in this city, 
that he gives & bequeaths to Peter Nelson of the State of Mississippi who had 
now the management of the said farm One undivided half of the said farm, 
together with one undivided half of the Stock & farming utensils thereon, that 
he gives & bequeaths the residue of his estate wherever situated to his 
aforesaid brother Hakan Lindquist.
That he appoints Gustavis Schmidt of this city of New Orleans attorney at law as 
his testamentary executor, with seizin of his estate And ? declares that he 
revokes all other Wills & testaments that he ? (bottom two lines too dark to 
read)

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"...testament was dictated to me by the said testator and in presence of the 
witnesses above named all residents of this city & Parish of Orleans, and the 
same was written by me in the continual presence of the above three witnesses, 
and without turning aside to other acts & having read the said will to the said 
testator in a loud & audible voice & in th continual presence of the above named 
witnesses, he declared that it contained his last will & testament and the 
testator having declared that he knew not how to write has made his ordinary 
mark in the presence of the aforenamed witnesses.
(Signed) Ordinary mark X of Olaf Lindquist alias William Brown
W.H.C. Duplessis
J.W. Mueller
Joseph Baker
And D. Doricourt not. pub.

I certify the aforegoing to be a true Copy of the original will as ? in my 
Office, In faith whereof I have affixed my hand & official seal at the city of 
New Orleans on this 28 November A.D. 1845
(Signed) And. D. Doricourt
Not. Pub."