The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1868-12-29
Il GENEROUS BE0UEST.
rbo Will of the Late Thomas c. Moore,
of Brooklyn-Gifts to hIcn and lnsti-
.utions-Provision for Widows md
Children of Southern Soldiers.

The Now York papers publish in full the will
of the late Thomas C. Moore, an old resident
of Williamsburg, N. Y, which has just been
admitted to probate Some allusion to this
instrument has already been made in our tcle-
prams 9, but our readers will, doubtless, be glad
to have an opportunity of reading its various
provisions:
After the usual Introductory sentences, he
orders that his executors shall pay his debts,
with the exception of mortgages. He leaves
his nersonal estate to his sister Martha Jane,
which comprises bonds, mortgages, scrip, cer-
tiGcates or evidence Of bank stock, monies,
&c. &c. He also bequeaths the same sister
all his right, title and interest IN the real es-
tate on the northerly sid, OF South Seventh
street, westerly side Of Fourth-strcet, ard
sontherly side OF South Si1th-street. 10 his
executors in trust he wills all his real estate in
the Sixteenth Ward, to sell the same within
three years after his decease, to invest and
keep invested IN good securities the proceeds
thereof until the same are exhausted or dispos-
ed of1n the following manrer: After the payment
of certain legacies to his relatives, he or
ders the sum OF $4,000 to be invested, and the
interest used for tho benefit Of Electa p. Moore
durine her lifetime; at her death the principal
to be equally divided between the Williams
burg City Missionary Society, American Home
Missionary Society, and the American Board
of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Out
of this fund, TO all of the above named socie-
ties, ho gives $500 each, and also to the Amerl-
can and Foreign Christian Union $500; Ameri-
can Seamen's Friend Society, S20O; Williams
burg Dispeusary, 5000; Williamsburg Fire Dc.
partmcnt Fund for the benefit Of widows and
orphans of fircmcn, 5000; American Bible So
ciety. 5000; American Tract Society, So00;
Trustees and Elders of the Presbyterian Church
in Elklon, Nd, for the benefit OF such church,
$500: Consistory oil the Reformed Dutch Churcn
late worshipplng at the corner Of Foulth and
South Second streets, should it be III operation,
separate and apart from an amalganatlon with
another Church, $1,000 Sabbath School OF
said Church, $500; South Bushwick Reformed
Dutch Church, Eighteenth Ward, $500. 1t,
after paying the whole of the above bcquests
in tile order named, there should be still q
balance lett al remaining OF this first fund,
there shall be paid to the Williamsburg Indus
trial School, $500 Graham Institute, or Home
tor RESPECTABLE old ladies, $1,000; Five Points
House of Industry, New York, $500. II there
should still be balance Left, then to be divided
between the Williamsburg CITY Missionary
Society and other bennrniont so"iat'es' ~ ms
sister Martha Jane he wills the real estate at
tho southeast corner OF Fourth aud South
Seventh streets, washington Hall.)
10 JOHN Moore, brother, real estate in Ninth
Ward, as we'll as all fire insurance stock or
scrip, &c.; also, estate in ElktGn County, Md,
also. estate in the Eighteenth Ward to be sold
within five years after his deccaee, the pro-
ceeds to DO invested in saiI securities to the
| amoun. of $4,000, and pay the said John Moore
the interest accruing during his natural life.
and also pay said John Moore, If living at the
time OF realizing the proceeds oil sales or the
aforesaid property, all sums above that amount.
Ii he should not DE living, then the whole pro-
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20 to the Amcrican Bible Society, American
Tract Society, American Home Mission Society,
| American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
! hlissions. New York Howard Mission, New
York Reformed Dutch Domestic Mission and
Board of Publication, share and share alike.
But in case his brother John Moore should be
living at the time OF reailzing the proceeds
erty, then deceased directs that after
| his brothers DEATH the said trust fund
shall b. paid as follows: $1,000, or SO much OF
that amount as shall be requisite, Is to be ap-
Piled to the supplying and making up OF any
deficiency that may occur Ill the llrst named
| trust fund.- aud the remainder alter certain
small legacies to relatives, to the Board OF The
| American and Foreign Christian Union, New
| York, S19UO; American So:men'5 Friends So
cicly, 500; Williamsburg Dispensary, LoAg IS
land, $500; and the remainder TO be- divided
| between the American Bible Society, the
American Tract SIcicty and the American
Home Missionary Society, share and shaie
alike. Ii: authorizes his executors 10 pay any
! aud ali sans o. monoy, icmainlcrs or rc-iducs
OF trust, aud rcmaindcrs OF proceeds OF land,
which may not BE- herc!nbciore apportioned, or
provided for, aftcr paying their own anu all
OF tacr legal claims or demands, to tho American
Bible Society. 10 his executor, trhn Moore
James Hail and JOIN Ii. Bcsher, $500 each
for their services. Tho attcsslng witnesses arc
John Sim ,uson, john A. Stats and Theodore
Y. Blinbridgc.
CoDIcIL.
Certain bonds, mortgages, &C., to his sister
Martha Jane Moore, he revokcs, for the reason