Amanuensis Monday -- 1870 Will of Jane A.E. Sever of Plymouth, Massachusetts

This week's document for transcription is the 1871 Will of Jane A. E. Sever (1805-1871) of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1)  Plymouth County [Massachusetts] Probate Records Estate File 17829 - 1870 Will of Jane A.E.  Sever - Image 9 of 13:

2)  Plymouth County [Massachusetts] Probate Records Estate File 17829 - 1871 Will of Jane A.E.  Sever - Image 10 of 13:

3)  Plymouth County [Massachusetts] Probate Records Estate File 17829 - 1871 Will of Jane A.E.  Sever - Image 11 of 13:

The transcription of this will is:

[image 9 of 13]

This is the Last Will and Testament of me Jane A. E. Sever of

Plymouth in the County of Plymouth and Commonwealth of

Massachusetts widow.

I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses

be paid out of my Estate by my Executrix hereinafter named.

I give to my son John Elliott Sever if he shall be living at

my decease or to any descendants of his then living if he shall

be then dead having left issue then living my copy of the

Works of Edmund Burke now in my house at said

Plymouth.

I give and devise my said house where I now reside

and all my real estate in said Plymouth, also all my

wearing apparel, furniture, house linen, plates and all

goods & chattels in and about said house at the time of my

^decease^ not otherwise herein disposed of to my daughters Catharine

Elliot Sever and Jane Elliott Harrison wife of Alexander M.

Harrison to Have & to Hold the same to them my said

daughters and to their Heirs Executors Administrators and

Assigns in Equal shares as Tenants in Common, to their

respective sole and Separate use free from the Control or interference

of any husband and not liable to his debts or Engagements.

[image 10 of 13]

I give and bequeath to my Son Charles W. Sever of Cambridge

in the County of Middlesex his promissory note to me for

($600) six hundred dollars.

All the rest and residue of my property and Estate

real personal & mixed including my shares in the

Capital Stock of the Merchants Insurance Company

established in Boston of the Old Colony and Newport

Railroad Company and of the Plymouth National Bank

of or to which I shall be seized, possessed or Entitled ^at my decease^

whether acquired before or after  the date hereof.  I give

bequeathe and devise to my said daughter Catherine Elliott

Sever To Have and to Hold the Same to her ^her^ heirs

Executors Administrators & Assigns to her sole and 

separate use forever.

I appoint my said daughter Catharine to be the

Executrix of this Will & Testament and I order and

direct that she shall not be required to give

any Surety or sureties on her Bond as such Executrix.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto on this the fourth

day of November in the year Eighteen hundred and

seventy set my hand.

                                                   Jane A E Sever

Signed sealed published and declared by the 

above named Jane A E Sever as and for her

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last Will and Testament on this the fourth day of November

in the year Eighteen hundred and seventy in the presence

of us who have hereunto set our names in her presence

at her request and in the presence of each other on said

day as witnesses thereunto.  The words "decease" "at my decease"

and "her" having been first interlined therein before signing by

her of said will.

Anne D. Sever

Emily Sever

Geo. S. Hale

The source citation for this probate case file is:

Plymouth County [Mass.] Register of Probate, Plymouth County (Mass.) Probate Records, 1686-1881, American Ancestors (https://www.americanancestors.org), Estate file 17829 (13 images), Jane A E Sever of Plymouth, 1871.

Jane Amarinthia Elliott (1805-1871) was born 30 July 1805 in Waynesboro, Georgia, the daughter of Daniel Roberts and Betsy Hayward (Thatcher) Elliott.  Jane died 10 March 1871 in Boston, Massachusetts.  She married on 15 June 1927 in Plymouth Charles Sever (1905-1834), who was born 9 April 1795 in Kingston, Massachusetts, the son of John and Nancy (Russell) Sever.  Charles and Jane (Elliott) Sever had four children:

*  Catherine Elliott Sever (1827-1899).

*  John Elliott Sever (1829-1913).

*  Jane Elliott Sever (1831-1874), married 1858 Alexander Madera Harrison (1829-1881).

*  Charles William Sever (1834-1904), married 1862 Mary Caroline Webber (1841-1923).

There is a petition for probate of the will dated 4 April 1871, a bond for $5000 by the executrix, dated 10 April 1871, and an affidavit of estate value ($9000), approved 21 April 1871, in this estate file.  There are no letters testamentary, inventory or account in this estate file.

Charles Sever (1795-1834) is my 4th cousin 6 times removed.  Our common Seaver ancestor is Robert Seaver (1608-1683) of Roxbury, Massachusetts.

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NOTE: Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme years ago called "Amanuensis Monday." John offers this definition for "amanuensis:"

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

Read other transcriptions of records of my ancestors at Amanuensis Monday Posts.

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