The Massachusetts spy, and Worcester County advertiser. [volume] ([Worcester, Mass.]) 1825-1831, 1831-05-18


put live thousand dollars at interest lit being
probable that the seven thousand dollars in va
rlous articles of property NAV not produce more
imam hive thousand dollars in cash) and shall
constantly keep said sum at interest and the
interest shall be applied annually in part to the
purchasing of books and other articles for pres
ervalion in the Library and Cabinet OF the In
stituton, and in part to defraying the expense
OF employing proper person TO explore the
ancient Notifications, mounds, &c, in the west
ern States or other parts of America, and in
taking plans, views, &c, and giving descrip-
tions, &c, of said Notifications, mounds, &c
for The American Antiquarian Society, proper
contracts to be made for this purpose, and the
agent or agents employed to be prohibited from
giving copies of said plans, views, descriptions
&c, or any OF them to any person or society
not authorized by the Government of this In.
stitution TO receive the same, in order that they
may be first published by said Society if they
should judge it 10 be expedent.
give and devise to the Massachusetts Gen.
eral Hospital forever one eighth part of said
reslduunl, said corporation to draw lot therefor
and to receive it in the kind of property OF
! which it may happen to consist
| give and devise the remaining eighth part
OF said reslduum in whatever kind of property
| 1t may consist of, to the corporation of Leices.
ter Academy forever.
l. give one hundred dollars to Thomas Lodge
the members of which some time since usually
assembled in Monson
| give to the Philadelphia Typographical So
! ciety the sum of one hundred dollars to be add.
ed to their funds otherwise disposed of as
this Society may determine to be expedent.
give to the Franklin Typographical Socie.
ty in Boston one hundred dollars
give to the American Philosophical Socie.
fu in lodi al pbi hn oTE g.
lars to be added to their funds or otherwise te
be disposed Of as that Society may direct.
To the American Academy of Arts and Sci
ences in Massachusetts,, give three hundred
dollars In Books.
To Harvard University l give three hundred
dollars in Books.
To the Historical Society in this Common.
wealth, give three hundred dollars to add &c
its funds. Without funds no society can vel
support the purposes Of its Institution.
To the Historical Society in New York
give three hundred dollars to add to its funds
To the Humane Society in this Common.
wealth, give three hundred dollars to promote
the purposes of this Institution which is estab
lishe ed in Boston.
To the Massachusetts, Charitable Fire Soci
ETY. established in Boston, give three hundred
dollars to aid the purposes intended by this cor
poration.
To the Massachusetts Society for promoting
Agriculture give two hundred dollars to aid
said Society in giving encouragement to Agri.
cultural Improvements.
To the Worcester Agricultural Society |
give one hundred dollars to aid the purposes of
this Institution.
To the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic
Association in Boston, give one hundred dol.
lars.
To the Apprentices Library in Boston l give
one hundred dollars in Books
Whereas about fifteen or twenty years AGO
gave to the Historical Society of Massachusetts
and to the Academy of Arts and Sciences of
said State, also to the Historical Society of
New York and to the American Philosophical
Society in Philadelphia, to each Society num-
Der of volumes of the Massachusetts Spy" for
preceding years, and whereas have, from. the
time of presenting the same to the present time,
kept four complete copies of the said "Massa-
chusetts Spy which have been tied up in files
annually leach file containing a copy of said
Spy for year, all of which may be found in
the small building north of my dwelling house
on shelves or in trunks or boxes, give one
complete set of said four sets of said Massn-
chusetts Spy" which have kept as aforesaid
from the time aforesaid after the same shall be
bound in boards, to each Of the said four Socie-
ties above mentioned.
l give to the American Antiquarian Society
six prints uniformly framed, &c, Of the six past
Presidents of the United States, now in my
room, and if should procure print of the sew.
enth President, give that also to said Society.
| give to the Essex Historical Society one
hundred dollars in Books, to be paid from nv
Book stock in manner directed in my will after
other legacies in Books therein mentioned shall
be satisfied, and provided that do not give said
amount IN Books to said Society before my de-
cease.
give to the Boston Female Asylum the sum
OF hve hundred dollars, and to the Boston Asy-
um for Boys the sum of three hundred dollars,
in one year after my decease, to be added to the
funds of these Institutions.
In pages 90, 81, and % of my said Will de-
vsed to the town of Worcester two certain lots
of land bounding on Thomas Street and Back
Street on certain conditions for Charity House
as is there mentioned, which devise hereby
annul, and in lieu thereof give and devise to
the said town of Worcester, on the same condi-
tions and for the same purposes as mentioned
in my said Will, all the lots lying as aforesaid
on said Streets not otherwise particularly de-
vlsed, and which may remain unsold at the time
OF my decease, (on condition that the said town
within three years after my decease erect on
one Of them a Charity House facing the street.
wv SlOly VI SildIl DC IdCeQ with
hewn stone, with at least two stories thereup.
on, permanently built of brick and on the far
Their condition that said town pay annually to
the overseers of the poor, twenty dollars, which
sum shall be appropriated annually towards pro-
viding for the poor persons maintajned by the
town in said Charity house, on Thanksgiving
days, good and liberal dinner suitable for the
occasion, also on that day half pint of common
but good wine for each person, or a reasonable
quantity of such other liquors as any of them
may prefer, that they may have the means of
participating on the days aforesaid like their
more atiuent neighbors in some of the essen
tlal good things ofthis life bestowed by boun-
tltul Providence, and be enabled to unite in
grateful prisons for the peace and felicity of
our country And if the whole of the said sum
of twenty dollars should not be necessary IN
any year for the purpose aforesaid, the residue
may be laid out in the purchase of books for the
children of poor parents or otherwise appropri.
ated for the benefit of the Poor as the Overseers
or Trustees of the Charity house shall think
best. lfnot accepted by said town for the pur.
pose aforesaid, then | give and devise to said
town the lot lying on the north side of said
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