The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-29
FIR. CORRIGAN'S WILL
His Jersey City Relations
Get the Bulk of His
Property.
OTHERS WILL CONTEST IT.
Nine. de Vancene and Margaret
Mullery, the Children Of His
Brother, and John Corrigan.

The will of the late Rev. Patrick Cor
rigan of Hoboken was today offered for
probate. The will, which was witnessed by
Miss Della Dorsey of No. 419 Grand street
and James F. Minturn of No. $50 Hudson
street, Hoboken, will be contested by at least
three relatives.
Counsellor Alexander Young will file
caveats against the probatlng of the will on
behalf of Mrs Patrick ]. Ryan, q niece, and
Edward Hammersley and his sister, a
nephew and niece, who live at Thirty eighth
street, New York. The grounds upon which
the will is to be contested is mental incapac-
ity to make will and undue influence.
The amount of the property bequeathed by
the testator is about $50, 900, but it is under
stood that there is large incumbrance on
it in the shape of mortgage.
The will is as follows:-
THE WILL.
''In the name of God, Amen. I, Patrick
Corrigan, rector of the Church of Our Lady
of Grace of the city of Hoboken, being OF
sound and disposing mind and memory, and
conscious of the uncertainty of life, do make
and publish and declare this to be my last
will and testament. To wit
II order and direct that all my just debts
and funeral expenses be paid as soon as con-
veniently after my decease.
81 give and bequeath unto the children of
my deceased sister the sum OF $500, to be
divided equally between them, and to my
sister, Elizabeth Bessler, wife of John
Bessler of New Haven, Conn, the
sum of $500, and to my niece, Elizabeth Ford
of Jersey City, the sum of $1,000; to my
niece, Ellen Kyne of Amsterdam, N. Y: the
sum of one dollar, and to my friend, the Rev.
Father Sheehan of ST. Patrick's Church,
Jersey City, the sum of $1,000, and request
that he offer up the holy sacrifice Of the mass
for the repose of my soul
''All the rest, residue and remainder OF my
estate of every kind | give, devise and be-
queath unto my cousin Catherine De Vaucene,
wife of James T. De Vaucene, of Brooklyn,
N. Y, and Margaret Mullery, of Jersey City,
and the children of my brother, Edward Cor
rigan. now deceased, and to John Corrigan, a
carpenter, son of Michael Corrigan of Jersey
City, to be divided between them in four
equal parts; the children of said Edward
Corrigan to take their one-fourth part as
representatives of their father, per stripes
and not per capita, and I also bequeath to
my niece, Lydia Ryan, wife of Patrick
Ryan of Hoboken, the sum of 800.
II hereby make. constitute and appoint
as the executor of this, my last will, Rev.
Father Sheehan of st. Patrick's Church,
Jersey City, and John F. O'Hara of Hobo
ken, and request that they furnish no bonds
for the performance of said trust.
And I hereby give and devise to
my said executors all the real
estate wheresoever situate of which may
die seized, to have and to hold the same in
trust for the purpose of selling, mortgaging
or disposing of the same as they may deem
best for the purpose of paying Oft the lega-
cies herein bequeathed, and l hereby revoke
all former wills by me made.
SIN witness whereof l have hereto set my
hand and seal this 5th day of January, d.
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