Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-09-20
THE WHITTIER WILL
Gives ..dch of Value 10
Relatives and Friends.
CHARITIES NOT FORGOTTEN
Manuscript and Papers Are Entrusted
to Samuel T. Pickard.

SAIra. Mas o~rt - -T1. will OF
John G. Whittier ha- -ae .,io.dng be-
1ucsts:
After lymcnt u. -li jUsr A'bf- 1ni fu-
neral charges hc bcqu 81 - as follows: To
his niece, Lizzie W pickBrd, his home
staad IA Amesbury, tie Cove place corner
OF Friend and Pleasant streets Amcsbury.
valued at $1,000; 90 Samuel T. pickard,
husband Of Lizzie W, 5000; to Greenleaf
w. Pickard, son Of Samuel T. and Lizzie
W, slO0Ol to his niece, Alice G. Berry,
f'no0 10 Ms neuhcw, Charles I. Whittier,
t'G0 ITO his men " w. Louis n Caldwell, $1,000;
a his xrAniniece, Lizzie w Patten, 5000.
j. his .iauinephew, Robert O. Patten,
800; to Have hill city hospital, 5000; TO
hs cousl ns, Joseph and Grrtru1 Cart
land. $500 each; To his cousin, Ann Il.
Wendell, $500; to \. Josephine Root of
Hartford, daughter OF his cousin Abby II.
Root, 800; TO Phebe j. Woodman, daugh-
tcr Of his cousin Abby j. Noodman. 5000;
to Carol ne johnson. Mary Johnson and
by j Woodman, his furniture, books
ald pictures ~ Oak Knoll. not 9th. rwise
4 3poscd OF, and 500 90 each; 90 A.idie r.
C1Tn rtt. wife Of Gustavus Cammett,
3 No: to Caroline q. Cate, wife of George
~ Cato, 5000; to Lucy Frances
aid .Tonny sp.rhawk, 900 each; TO
Lucy Larcom, 500, also the copyright of
"Chud Iy's." Child Life in Prose" and
'Soues OF Throe Centuries;' 20 Mary II.
,rtsr 800 10 DR.. Louise DOwdcll Will
sen, $500: to william II. Devhurst, $500;
/ his niece, Lizzie w pickard, the por-
ait OF himself by Hoyt, now at Oak
Inoll. to Sarah OF Jewett Of South Ber-
wick, Iannanis picture Of the sea ana
marshes at the mouth of the Merrimac,
now at Oak Knoll; to Annie Fields.
the picture Of Venice, now at Oak Knoll,
t1 the American Peace society, $500; 20 the
Ameshury Charitable society, $500; To the
Friends In Amesbury, goo for the care OF
their burial ground; to Adelaide q. Cald-
well, 500.
His Copyrighted Works.
The income from the copyright to his
writings. with,the exception of those '-iyen
b. Lucy Larcom, are placed I'm the hands
of executors who are appointed as trus-
tees of the same The income las stipu-
lated in All agreement with his publishers,
Iiougiton, Mifllin g. Co, dated Aug. u,
1888, TO continue until ten years from that
iate) is To he paid annually 70 Lizzie w.
Pickard, Alice g. Berry, Charles +. Whit
tier, Louis y. Caldwell, Phebo y. Wood
man and Addie l.. Cammett In the ratio OF
tho casa legaces To the above persons
named. The trustees are also authorized,
II they think best, to sell the copyrights
and divide the proceeds.
One half of the residue OF the estate IL
given to Llzsie w. Pickard, Alice G.
Berry, Charles +. Whittier, Louis II.
Caldwell, Phebe j. Woodman, Addie r.
Cammctt and AdelstAe G. Caldwell. The
remaining ha'f Of the residue Is left to the
Am sbury aud Salisbury Home for Aged
Women the Anna Jaquss&hospital of New
buryport and the Normal and Agricul-
tural Institute for Colored and Indian
Children at Hampton, Va.
An important Trust.
His manuscripts, letters and papers are
entrusted to Samuel T. Pickard of Port
land, Me, with the request that all per-
sons who have letters OF his refrain from
publishing them unless with his consent.
George r. Bagley~sR.t George W. Cate of
Ameshury are named rs executors and
trustees, and il is requested that they De
exempt from giving bonds.
The will is dated Feb. H. 1890, and the
witnesses are Aver o. Webster, Alfred @.
Webster, ALBERT B. Brown.