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deeds or grants to each of them, with such limitations and reversions, 

 etc., respecting some parts of my estate as I thought proper, this my 

 present last will and testament needs therefore only to regard my 

 residuary estate as it may be at the time of my death; which I will and 

 ordain to be divided into five parts or shares as nearly of equal value 

 (quantity and quality considered) as can be estimated. 



One sliare or fifth part of the same to my son William. One other 

 share or fifth among the children or legal representatives of my dear 

 deceased daughter Williamina, share and share alike. One other share 

 or fifth part to my son Charles in fee. One other share or fifth part to 

 my son Richard in fee. And the remaining fifth part or share to the 

 Hon. Thomas Smith, Esq., of the city of Philadelphia, the Right Rev. 

 Bishop White, of the said city, and the Hon. Jasper Yeates, Esq., of 

 the borouqrh of Lancaster, and to the survivors and survivor and the 

 heirs of such survivor, in trust for the use of my daughter Rebecca and 

 her children, or legal representatives, at the time of her decease, as set 

 forth more at large in my Deed of Trust to them. 



And if such division cannot be made amicably by the devisees afore- 

 said, the same shall be made according to law on the application of any 

 one or more of them. 



It having now pleased God to enable me to bring this my last will 

 towards a conclusion, although hastily, yet with a pure and sincere m- 

 tention to do equal justice to all my children and family, I recommend 

 them to the blessing of the Almighty, charging them that, from regard 

 to my memory, the education I have bestowed on them, my anxiety to ' 

 provide for and assist them in gaining comfortable settlements in life, 

 they will always preserve a mutual affection one to another; and as I 

 have endeavored to express my intention clearly in this will, with equal 

 affection to all of them, I trust the said intention will be their guide 

 and Pole star in the interpretation of the same, and that no want of 

 legal form in the meaning or matter will ever be made a cause by any 

 of them to contravene that intention. 



Item. I do hereby direct that my funeral may be plain and decent, 

 and that my body, wheresoever my death may happen, may be conveyed 

 (if it can be done with any possible safety and convenience) and de- 

 posited in the middle grave prepared by me in the small mausoleum and 

 cenotaph, which I have erected in my garden, near my present dwelling 

 house, at the Falls of Schuylkill, and that the ashes of my dear wife and 

 my two infant children, Phineas and Elizabeth (buried by her side in 

 Christ Church burying-ground), be taken up and enclosed in an urn 

 and deposited in the same grave with me during the next winter, if I 

 '' should not live to execute that mournful but sacred duty myself, in pur- 



.suance of the promise which my good friend Bishop White hath given 

 me of obtaining leave to open the ground for that purpose when I may 

 tliink it convenient. 



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