Notice of the late Sheldon Clark. 207 
He then gives in form, and with certain conditions, the above 
named sum to the Chesnut-tree hill school district. He gives 
also to his three sisters a valuable farm, which fell to him from 
his and their brother, besides other land acquired after his will 
was made ; also, all his personal estate* not otherwise disposed 
of; and on his death bed he expressed a wish, that the sisters 
should receive each one thousand _— and that the college 
should pay it.t 
He named Abel Wheeler, Esq. of Oxford, and Benjamin Sil- 
liman of New Haven, his executors, and as Judge Wheeler was 
dead, the duties, of course, devolved on the surviving executor. 
This will he brought to my house early in the spring of 1823, 
when he read it to me, and requested me to keep it sacred and 
secure. 'The lady of the house was also entrusted with this con- 
fidence, that the will might be found, if I were gone; by his 
direction I sealed it, in his eeseire and wrote upon the envelope, 
“the last Will of Sheldon Clark, to be delivered to no one but 
hina in ee of his — to espe: ay the 
of Yale College”. 
It was now placed in a private drawer in my secretary, i the 
presence of us three only, and there it remained untouched and 
unknown, until the PRS NE REE His last 
visit at my house was in the evening of October 8, previo 
when he was on the door-step taking his leave, I reminded him 
of the important document, which, sixteen years before, he had 
confided to me, and offered to surrender it to him, provided his 
purpose was changed. He replied, “No, I do not wish to make 
any alteration,” and these (with a warm shake of the hand) were 
to me his words of farewell. I never saw him more, until I be- 
held him in his coffin on the 1ith of April, 1840. 
* Furniture, appare ” 
‘tds ene he had been liberal in private benefactions, 4° ae 
A memorandum in his hand writ ing now lies before me, dated Apri te a i 
few days after his grandfather’s sch entitled, ee re account of seth te at 0 
given to my relations out of my own rnings.” e then. merengss “ssa 
$200, $150, $100, $100, $53, an 4 365,75, om to $658,75 ~<_ a ¥ 
April 20th, 1811, and March 20th, 1813, he had given chiefly to 2 chi" 
Among his receipts also, is one fs fifteen sano h being ina te ee ac te 
bell in a neighboring Episcopal society. He w - cout 
Society to which he belonged, as also to the hei Mt Oxi ent 
donations to individuals. 
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