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scious that I have too far sacrificed the interests of my family to public Avocations and on this account have the less claim to burthen my children, yet I trust in their magnanimity to appreciate as they ought this my request. In so unfavorable an event of things, the support of their dear mother, with the most respectful and tender attention, is a duty, all the sacredness of which they will feel. Probably her own patrimonial resources will preserve her from indigence. But in all situations they are charged to bear in mind that she has been to them the most devoted and best of mothers.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my hand the ninth day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and four.
Signed, sealed, published and declared as and for his last will and testament, in our presence who have subscribed the same in
