The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-06-23
MR.. BRTINT'S WILL.
Text OF the Document Filed In tho Queens
County surroxate's Once Yesterday.

Yesterday Mr. John II. Plat OF New York,
one OF the executors Of the last will and testa-
ment OF the late William Cullen Bryant. filed
the poets will in the Queens county Surrogate :
Office. ut Jamaica. The will is In Mr.. Bryant
own handwriting. He leaves nothing to char
ity. and only two persons besides his two daugh-
tiers get any part Of his property. The follow
ing ia the full text Of the will:
l. william cullcn Bryant Of Ro.yn, Queen. county,
givs my daughter Fannie Bryant Goodwin. the
she now hycs with her family, with all the houses
Other buildings thereon
rods width to be taken land nov occupied
ne al si'H h4,yi ana oeSma irqn the highway I"
Also all the land aud ouihuidings Joining the prem.
Is nS OS sspSSn smS ' G,o Ss Sse s rs S S%sei
y ne ele'n- ,es N snd Hsams, now oeeamed
= Aiso all my lands and buildings in Ro,lyn west Of
i,"lnfIn b.@nasr, OF w pI,i., now occupied by y"
&c last mentioned lands and buildings bought hy me
q si.o sys her one half Of AL NY Government bonds
however 70 charges hereinafter mentioned. also
or acres hereinafter the northeast cornsr
: Mo,.Syer give to my aid daughter Fanny ne
~ with Hll the buildings thereon and rsht Of way
thereto hy road now mac. but rcs'rvrg from tia. be-
l ~ ur ~. o ,r,t"h 'r.n-s "n W. n@t corner
u'I jntdp NOV u,,I W., Nv lI ~ & ,
my real estate N Ro'yn NJ, devised Tie other daush
ul4ed by Ueol-c - Cline aud " u wuson--l tract of
aoa sAi,ndins rem NE hi7N3 mar ihs shore ~ the
ave. also. Ia my daughter juliH all my hooks pic
mails caTrinscs aiming nnuicincnts and M cr"rs
gathered or IN inc neis on whatever part Of ny real
also gi,e her an my real estate IN the cs uf New
! Also all my real c-iae IN thu STATE OF Il'u9i.
also W farm ana na,ls' IN ,oipmni. ioa called
northeast corner Of the smell farm SAID springs are
d Asomy furniture. hook. pictures. aud other NOV.
nbes ~ every Kind at the Br Homestead aiore said
Also onc.lif Of my Governnicnt bond. aid tiotcri,
lncnt securities. Of whatever naturc subject to charges
/ / give to my two daughters already named all my
rg us Hm1 an, , a or M s,
property raining ant debts due to the same n be
have scter Win What in;cresi th,rein ,hc may POS
All his they are 10 tax ,a,cs " any indebtcinc,,
winch may Appcar aSain' me on ne hook 81 nc t'
also give INV .aid two daughters Jointly all my
property IN the eopyHsht OF any ol my Published
i, dive to George h cline Of Ridyn aforesaid four
acre. 81 land M the noleas,etp corner OF ne Mllss
Tie two highway, To be- set ~ 60 hun ~ such manner
that ~. widlh 81 t"o A,irs sh" re ON ,A.h nlehMAy
lars tobe pad out OF tue profits al the heen"g i II any
la due me on thc books and noi Then out Of tie Gov
l. bCqmah 10 william hriani Cine, son ot The SAID
George cline two hundred dollars to be paid out OF
Ifcter Of my daughters should die without children,
direct that whatever she b. To receive hy tins instru
mont shall 10 10 her surviving sister direct further,
that the property gwen To- daughters shall he settled
upon them such Ia De- lrcc from any inter
nieddnng control oil the husband q either ct thenl
In ease that survive lotl my dauEht"rs And their
children aud direct descendants direct that my estate
aitsr paying the esacies to other persons shan be ~
Nidcd among nephcws ami niec's. AMI the nellrW-
ant nrees If NJ, late w,i' fanns fmrcmld Bryant each
them 10 receive equal share, with tls exception
that Mrs Ellen Mitchell daughter at my sister sarah
and Mrs Hannah H. Culver daughter ol my VINES siser
nv wile brother. Esbert n Fairchid, shall receive
each share twice lrgr ~ the shares oi tue others
Shonld die possessed any property not herein spec
lied direct il to be- equally divided between my tive
daughters that cannot be dom, then direct tha u
follow the disposition the other property made by this
will
give to zach Of my granlchlhren living at my death
a copy my pocm, nj such edition ~ they may choo,v
empower my executors Ia convey my fcAl estate ny
decd, whenever i shall become necessary or rNlrlent
constitute my friends John A. Graham, John bsrow
john II ratt, George Il. cine, and my daughter Ju.il
Rryant executors ~ thu my last VIII ana testament
revoke all my previous wills aud eodels
The will was made Dec. G, 1872, and the wit
nesses to IT'S execution are Isnac Hgnl"isun o
Is West Fiity-iourth street, Isaac VI, nurr-0il
Jr Of the same address, and Albert Il. Ming nj
500 Willoughby avenue Brooklyn.