{"id":4715,"date":"2019-10-26T15:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/?p=4715"},"modified":"2019-10-26T15:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T19:30:26","slug":"smith-mathilda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/family-collections\/wills\/smith-mathilda\/","title":{"rendered":"Smith, Mathilda"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td>12 April 1897<br>Last Will and Testament of Mathilda Smith<br>Wife of James Livingston<\/td><td>From the Records of Edouard Antill Panet<br>Record #5155<br>Transcribed from the Original at the Quebec Archives<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>On this twelfth day of April one thousand\neight hundred and ninety seven at the hour of ten thirty of the clock in the\nforenoon, at the special instance and request of Dame Mathilda Smith, wife of\nJames Livingston of the said Parish of Saint Raymond, Farmer, I, \u00c9douard Antill\nPanet the undersigned Notary Public duly commissioned and sworn in and residing\nand practising in the Parish of Saint Raymond, Province of Quebec and Dominion\nof Canada, accompanied by William Livingston and Jacob Smith both of the Parish\nof Saint Raymond, Farmers, witnesses requested by the said Dame Mathilda Smith\nto witness this her present last will and testament, repaired to the residence\nof the said Mathilda Smith in the said Parish of Saint Raymond and there\nfinding her in good bodily health and of sound and disposing mind, memory,\njudgment and understanding as it appeared unto us Notary and witnesses from her\nwords and actions, and being desirous of regulating her worldly affairs whilst\nyet she hath the strength left to do so, hath named, dictated and nominated\nunto us said Notary and witnesses her last will and testament in the manner and\nform following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1\u00ba I recommend my soul to Almighty God my\nCreator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2\u00ba I will and order that my just debts,\nfuneral and testamentary expenses be first paid by my Testamentary Executor\nhereinafter named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3\u00ba I will and order that my body be\ncommitted to the grave to be buried in a manner suitable to my station in life,\nand with as little expense as possible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>4\u00ba I will, devise and bequeath to my well\nbeloved son Alexander Livingston the whole of my property moveable and\nimmoveable, ready money, rights and actions, and all other property of whatever\nkind and description I may die possessed of without exception or reserve to be\nby my said son Alexander used, enjoyed and disposed of in full property and\nownership from and after the moment of my death hereby instituting him my\nuniversal legatee and devisee in full property and Executor of this my present\nlast will and testament, and hereby revoking all other last wills and\ntestaments and codicils by me heretofore made, wishing and desiring that the\npresent alone be followed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was thus named, dictated and nominated\nby the said Testatrix of her own free will and accord to the said Notary in\npresence of said witnesses, in the residence of the said Testatrix in the said\nParish of Saint Raymond, on the day, month, year and hour first above\nmentioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In testimony whereof the said Testatrix\ndeclaring her inability to write or sign her name hath made her usual mark of a\ncross in the presence of said Notary and witnesses who have each signed with\nand in the presence of the said Testatrix and in the presence of each other,\nthese presents having been first duly read by the said Notary to said Testatrix\nin presence of said witnesses, the said Testatrix persisting herein after the\nreading thereof as fully to embody and contain her last will and intentions,\nthese presents bearing the number five thousand one hundred and fifty [six] of\nthe original deeds remaining of record in the office of the said undersigned\nNotary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Martha Smith, her mark; William Livingston,\nhis signature; Jacob Smith, his signature; E.A. Panet, <em>N.P<\/em>., his signature<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>____________<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>NOTE<\/strong>: Mathida Smith Livingston died 3 October 1899 and was buried on the 5 October 1899 (Bourg Louis Church of England). 70 years of age.James Livingston and Mathilda Smith were married on 14 May 1849. (Church Register: Portneuf Church of England).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Transcribed by Gerald Neville, December 2012<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>12 April 1897Last Will and Testament of Mathilda SmithWife of James Livingston From the Records of Edouard Antill PanetRecord #5155Transcribed from the Original at the Quebec Archives On this twelfth day of April one thousand eight hundred and ninety seven at the hour of ten thirty of the clock in the forenoon, at the special [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false},"categories":[44,35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paVLnF-1e3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valcartiergenealogy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}