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Wills.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Legal instruments in which a person declares the disposition of his/her property, to take effect after his/her death, and which is revocable during the lifetime of that person.

Found in 34 Collections and/or Records:

Papers of Hercules Ross.

 Collection
Identifier: MSS.50264-50265
Scope and Contents

Papers include copies of letters sent to Lord Nelson and letters sent by Ross during his time as a merchant at Kingston, Jamaica.

Dates: 1782- circa 1891.

Photocopy of the last will and testament, 1809, of Alexander MacDonell of Keppoch, the resident in Prince Edward Island.

 File
Identifier: Acc.7218
Scope and Contents

With associated extract, 1810, from the minutes of the PEI Court of Probate.

Dates: 1809-1810.

Six letters, 1785-1788, of Henry P Wilsone.

 File
Identifier: Acc.6381
Scope and Contents

Concerning life in India.

With his will and other papers, 1779-1792.

Dates: 1779-1792.

Volume of miscellaneous papers concerning genealogy and religion which belonged to Robert Mylne, the antiquary.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.16.1.1
Scope and Contents Sections (i), (ii), (v), and (vi) are written by Mylne himself; (iii) and (iv) by another late-seventeenth- or early-eighteenth-century hand; the last addition in (vi) is by an eighteenth-century hand. Sections (i), (ii), (iii)-(iv), and (vi) originally had separate paginations: Mylne has overwritten these in paginating throughout. An instruction to his binder survives on folio 75. There is the beginning of an index on folios 177-178, deleted and with the note that `the index is in loos...
Dates: 1st quarter of 15th century-1st half of 18th century.