New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-03-31
DIVIDING THE JONES ESTATE.
TERMS OF THE WILL, WHICH DisPosEs OF PROP
FRTY WORTH $1,000, ,O00-A LIST OF HEIRS.

TERMS OF THE WILL WHICH DisPosEs OF PROP.
FRTY WORTH 81, ,000. .O00-A LIST OF HEIRS
The will Of Joshua Jones, the old New-Yorkcr who
died last week at the New-York Hotel, will not be
probatcd for several days. as some OF the hoirs who
are abroad are expected to return homo next week
1t was drawn by De Witt, Locllman Dc Witt, who
were Mr.. Jones's counsel for many years. The es-
tate will reach, it Is estimated, fully S70000O0 Mr.
Jones was not married. and tho heirs his brothers
and sisters and their children and grandchildren,
and some old family servants and friends.
The first bcquest after the payment of the funeral
expenses and other debts $4,000 to Professor Will
lam Pitt Mason, son of James Mason his cousin
Mrs NJ Louise Mas n, widow Of James Mason, ne
cclves $4,000: George @. Williams, president OF tho
Chemical National Bank $4,000; William J. ouin-
Ian, IT, cashier of the bank $4,000; Edward Ashforth,
Mr. Joness clerk, $4,000 the Rev. Henry j. Morton,
of Philadelphia, $1,000; Helen Irving, 10000; Fran
els Donohue, his gardener, $500; Michael McIon-
aid assistant gardener, 81 ,OO0 Annie Mullen, SER
want, So, 500, and Louise Schultze $500. The only
public bequests are to the Orphan Home and Asylum
of the Protestant Episcopal Church In Lexingtonave
s25OOO; the Bank Clerks Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton of the City Of New-York, $4,000. These be-
quests aggregate about 100000.
The executors to dispose OF all the rcai estate
and personal property and the proceeds 20 be di-
vided into nine equal portions These portions, 1t Is
expected, will amount to about 100000 each Tho
estate IS DO settled and divided as follows among
the heirs Mary Mason Jones' daughter OF John Mas0n
and George Jones' cousin Of the tcstator each nlnH
part of tho estate; George L. Jones' the half OF a
third ninth part and to Edward r. Jones, Harriet,
the wife of j. Nelson Potter and Elizabeth s. Jones,
the re raining half of this ninth part to William j.
Crugcr, Eugene J. Crugcr and James p Cruger, a
fourth ninth portion, shared equally; 10 William and
Edmund II. Schcrmerhorn, grandchildren Of John
Jones' two-tlfrts Of fifth ninth part of the estate
to Frederick A. Schermerhorn and Ellen 3 Anchauiy,
wife of Richard T. Auchmuty, the remaining thru OF
the same ninth part Helen Langdon, half OF
sixth ninth portion and to Edith, wife Of c. o. lseln
Helen Jones and Sidney Colford tho remaining half
of the portion; to Henry Mason seventh ninth por
ton James H. Jones, Eleanor c., WHO OF A. New
bold Morris, and Cordela s., wife OF John steward
jr the children o. General James j. Jones' an eighth
ninth porton TO the children OF James Mason, MS
cousin, the remaining ninth part.
large portion OF the property Is zeal estate most
of which Is In New-York One tract Of land Is be-
tween Seventy fourth and Seventy fifth sts and Eighth
and Tenth aves., and Is estimated TO be worth fully
81 100000. This purchased as a wood lot by
tended from the middle of what Central Park to
the Hudson River, and the family supply of wood Tor
fuel taken from It in winter. There IS also q
handsome country seat on Staten Island Inc wn
In April OF last year states that contracts nave oeen
made TO erect block of dwelling houses on the uptown
property 1t provides that they shall be completed
and sold by the executors. ~ - ~
Jones, John T. Lockman, William schermerh%oTm %
and Arthur Mason Jones. The witnesses OF the VIII
and the cOdlcil Mortimer Bishop, Theodore De
Witt and Jacob X Lockman. Mr. Jones was gradu
ated at Columbia College In the class of 1927 lie
studied but practscd law and passed the greater
portion of his life in travelling. He was fond OF
trips lie had journeyed on foot through many parts
of the United States.