WILL: Arthur J. Nicholson; Malone, Franklin co., NY
Surname: Nicholson, Desrochers

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Franklin County NY
Will Book Vol. 13 page 630

L.S.

ON THIS DAY, the eleventh of December, ONE THOUSAND NINE HUNDRED AND EIGHTEEN.
BEFORE Me, Odilon CREPEAU, the undersigned Notary Public for the Province of
Quebec, residing and practising in the City of Montreal.

And in the presence of MM. GERARD FORCIER, Hospital employee, and EDOUARD A.
LAFERRIERE, Doctor of Medicine, both of the City of Montreal witnesses
required according to law to the effets hereof and undersigned.

APPEARED:

Mr. ARTHUR J. NICHOLSON, of the Town of Malone, in the State of New York,
U.S.A. Merchant,

WHO has made and dictated to the said Notary in the presence of the said
witnesses his Last Will and Testament in the manner and form following, to
wit:

I command my soul to Almighty God, my Creator and my Redeemer.

I direct and order that my debts and funeral expenses be paid as soon as it
conviently may be after my decease.

I make and institute my wife, DAME ELIZABETH DESROCHERS, my universal legatee
and devisee, therefore I give, devise and bequeath unto her, my said beloved
wife the whole of the property real and personal movable and immovable
property of every nature and description without exception or reserve, which I
shall die seized of, which I shall own and which shall compose my succession;
she shall have, hold use and enjoy and dispose of the whole of my said
property as belonging to her in full ownership computing from the day of my
decease.

I name and appoint my aforesaid wife, sole executrix of this present Last Will
and Testament with full power to act as such beyond the year and day limited
by law and until the full execution thereof.

I revoke and cancel all former wills and codicils, which I may have made
before this my present Last will which alone shall be carried out and executed
as containing my last wishes and intentions.

The present Last will and Testament was thus made and dictated by the said
Testator to the said O. CREPEAU in the presence of said witnesses, and
afterwards in the presence of the same witnesses read by the said O.CREPEAU to
the said testator, who declared to have well understood the whole and to
persist in the disposition which it his present Last Wills contains.

DONE AND PASSED at the City of Montreal on the day, month and year first above
written under the Number EIGHT THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND THIRTY-NINE of the
original minutes of the said Notary.

And fater due reading as aforesaid, the said testator and the Notary and
witnesses have signed these presents each one in the presence of the other.

(signed) Arthur J. Nicholson,
(signed) Gerard Forcier
(signed) Dr. E. A. Laferriere
(signed) O. Crepeau, N.P.

A true copy of the original minute hereof remaing of record in my office.
O. Crepeau, N.P.

Dominion of Canada,
Province of Quebec,
District of Montreal

In the Superior Court, for the Province of Quebec.

To all to whom these presents may concern

I, the undersigned, A. E. Grandbois, Deputy Prothonatary, in the District of
Montreal, of the Superior Court for the Province of Quebec in the Dominon of
Canada, the same being a Court of Record.

DO hereby certify, that O. Crepeau, whose name is subscribed to the
certificate of the proof or acknowledgement of the annexed instrument and
thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof and acknowledgement, a
Notary Public, in and for said District of Montreal, residing therein, duly
commissioned and sworn, and authorized by the laws of said Province to take
the acknowledgements and proofs of deeds or conveyance, for land, tenements or
hereditements in said Province, to be recorded therein. And further that I am
well acquainted with the handwriting of said O. Crepeau, Notary Public, and
verily believe that the signature to said certificate of proof or
acknowledgement is genuine.

Given under my hand and the seal of the said Superior Court, at the City of
Montreal, in the said Province of Quebec, this third day of January in the
year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and Nineteen.


L.S.
A. E. Granbois, Deputy Prothonotary of the said Superior Court.

American Consulate General
Montreal, Canada
I. Chas. Isaacs - Vice Consul of the United States of America at Montreal,
Canada, duly qualified and authorized, do hereby certify that A. E. Grandbois
who signed the annexed document and affixed his seal of office thereto, is and
was at the time of signing same a Deputy Prothonetary of the Superior Court,
District of Montreal in and for the Province of Quebec, Dominion of Canada,
and that full faith and credit are due his official acts.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed and affixed the Seal of this
Consulate General on this 11th day of January 1919.

L.S.

Chas. Isaacs
Vice Consul of the United States of America at Montreal, Canada.

Will of Arthur J. Nicholson admitted to probate January 14th, 1919.