To Mrs. Elizabeth Hart Jarvis Robinson.

My dearly beloved niece:

By my will I have left much of the
contents of my home to you, in trust, to dispose of as I shall
ask you to do in this letter of instruction. Feeling sure that
you will willingly do this for me, I thank you for carrying out
my wishes as I know you will.

Although you now have more silver than you know what to
do with, I hope you will accept the four open bordered silver
compotes which I purchased in London in 1881, and the small sil-
ver tea pot which belonged to your great, great grandparents
William and Esther Hart. They were the parents of your great-
grandfather Richard William Hart, all of Saybrook.

Also the old punch ladle which belonged to Nathan and
Desire Bull of Newport, R. I. marked N. B. D. They were your
great, great, great, great grandparents. It has a black handle.
Then I wish you to have the large silver cake basket which held
the water at the christening of your little Elizabeth Alden and
of my own little darlings. It was the property of William &
Esther Hart.

You have so much jewelry that you will not care for any
of mine, unless for a keepsake.

Should I not, before my death, have given to the relatives and friends to be named below, certain gifts in remembrance of me, I hereby ask you to distribute the articles to them.

First. I ask you to give to my sister Mrs. Mary Louisa FitzGerald, two dozens of my best china plates, one dozen with turquoise blue border, and one dozen with yellow border and orchids in the centre. The old silver porringer marked Esther Buckingham, the wife of Gen. William Hart, my great grandmother, and two Gorham plated meat dishes. The turquoise blue cups and saucers, and the plates belonging with them, now in the dining room sideboard. Should she wish the old clock, which was Gen. Wm. Hart's, and the old sideboard which was Richard W. Hart's, I would like her to have them. If not, give the clock to Lizzie Beach, and if you would like the sideboard, you will take that. If you do not care for it, I would like Anna G. FitzGerald to have it. There are two silver plated candlesticks which were my grandparents also for her.

To my niece Elizabeth Jarvis FitzGerald I give my watch, blue enamel case set with diamonds, and the short chain I wear with it, and my opal and diamond ring, and my largest diamond brooch.

To my niece Mary Collins FitzGerald I give my onyx and diamond cross and necklace, also the diamond ring, three stones which I wear daily, and the black marble and ormuI mantle clock now in my sitting room.

To my niece Anna Greenough FitzGerald I give my sapphire & diamond ring which I always wear, a gift from my Caldwell, and a silver toilet set in case, brush, comb and hand mirror, a dozen of my best china plates, and a silver plated tray with raised rim-- The plates and one dozen pie knives, gold tines. (actual size)

To Frederick FitzGerald, my nephew, the crayon portrait of his grandfather Jarvis, and the diamond ring which was his cousin Caldwell's, & one dozen pie knives. I give

To Elizabeth Colt Jarvis Beach I give my cluster diamond ring, my diamond bar pin with pendants and my Mary Washington Society badge-- Two Gorham silver plated meat platters, the silver pepper duster which belonged to my great grandparents William & Esther Hart marked W Also four plated candle sticks, two sizes, these also belonged to my grandparents, one dozen china plates, dark blue, open edge, flower centre, one dozen soup plates and one dozen plates to match (Chinese ware).

To Hart Jarvis Beach I give the portrait of his Uncle Richard W. H. Jarvis.

To my sister-in-law, the widow of my brother John Samuel Jarvis, I give my round onyx brooch and ear rings, all with diamond centres.

To my cousin Lucy C. Jarvis, I give my small Kirk silver sugar bowl and creamer and pair of small sugar tongues.

To my cousin Amelia H. Sheffield, I give my Limoge enamel pin, bar shape, and large silver spoon, a ship on top of handle, one of Columbus' boats.

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To my cousin Mrs. Sarah K. Sheffield I give my enamel pansy brooch set with diamonds, and one dozen of best plates.

To my cousin Rev. Samuel Hart, D. D., D. C. L., I give my small silver breakfast set coffee pot, tea pot, sugar bowl and creamer marked H. B. H. and E. H. C. also my silver spoon tray, and an oil painting by J. C. Fyler called a "Tempestuous Sea," scene of the coast of Maine now in picture gallery.

To my nephew Samuel C. Colt of Farmington, I give two large meat dishes for holding hot water with silver covers, the handles the Colt crest, one dozen fruit knives, one dozen dinner forks, one dozen dessert forks, one dozen table spoons, one dozen dessert spoons, one dozen tea spoons, one dozen tea spoons, these all marked with the Colt crest, except the meat dishes, these have the coat of arms, one butter dish, one syrup cup with plate belonging to it, with coat of arms mark-- 2 vegetable dishes with stands & lamps.

To Mrs. Mary Colt, wife of Samuel C. Colt, I give my diamond ring with five stones and my pearl ring with five pearls, 18 white and gold china plates, with open border, and two silver jelly spoons.

To Mrs. Fanny Rogers Janeway of New York, I give my largest silver epergne with glass bowls and platteau belonging thereto, my Limoge brooch with bright colors, and one dozen

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best plates.

To Mrs. Isabel Ely Luther, I give one dozen ice cream spoons and one dozen porcelain cups and saucers, forget me not decoration.

To Mrs. Elizabeth H. Pearce I give my two, three light candelabra with their shades, and my silver owl pepper duster.

To Mrs. Mary Ely Pulford, I give one dozen cups and saucers with plates to match, with open edges now in corner cupboard in dining room.

To my friend the Rev. John Henry Watson, I give two English silver coasters and one cigar holder with lamp. To Mrs. Watson, 1 doz. best plates.

To my friend the Rev. Henry A. Parker now residing at Mendon, Massachusetts, I give the silver grape leaf dish which was my dear son's, his one time pupil, and to his wife Mrs. Parker I give one dozen pie knives. They are at present residing at Mendon, Massachusetts.

To my nephew Charles L. F. Robinson, I give two of the silver dog head drinking cups, and my large silk rug now in red parlor. rug sold 1936. Pogs divided among Cato & Robu.

To my nephew George Watson Beach, I give my large glass punch bowl, silver mounted, with standard and the silk rug now on sofa in my sitting room.

To Montrose Barnard, I give the brass inkstand and candle
sticks now on my library table.

To my great nephew Caldwell Colt Robinson, I give the
beautiful silver dish engraved with view of Dauntless in storm
in midocean which was given to my dear son.

To my dear son's faithful friend James B. Moore, I give
my cut glass claret jug, with silver top and chain, and one sil-
ver cigar holder, with lamp.

To Dr. William D. Morgan, whose kindness in my great sor-
row I can never forget, I give two English silver coasters, and
the bronze figure, with clock, now in my library.

To my kind friend and physician Dr. Edward W. Kellogg,
I give my heavy glass cracker jar, silver mounted.

To my friend and adviser Mr. Charles E. Gross, I give my
smallest silver soup tureen and ladle, marked.

To Mr. William Waldo Hyde, I give a silver dish for fruit.

To Mr. Arthur Shipman, I give my silver standard lamp
with figured green glass shade.

To Miss Alice Taintor I give my silver muffiner.

To my dear Julia Chaffee, I give

To Mrs. S. H. Valentine and Miss Hetty Porter, I give,
one each, of the large round silver fruit dishes.

To Mrs. Clementine Welling and Miss Elizabeth Dixon I

give one dozen best china plates and two silver boxes (English
I think) now on my bedroom bureau.

To Mrs. Sarah Loines Hall, I give six Royal Vienna plates.

To Mrs. George H. Day, I give six individual pepper dusters.

To Mrs. Edward H. Perkins, the green and gold chocolate
pitcher.

To Miss Sara B. Huntington I give my cut glass inkstand
with Kirk silver top and tray now on my library table, and one
dozen short handle forks, with figures on handles.

To Miss Bessie Ferguson of Stamford, Ct. I give a silver
pen tray with silver pen holder.

To Mrs. Storrs C. Seymour of Litchfield I give a silver
pen tray and silver pen handle.

To Josephine and Emily Barnard I give the three pieces
of Napoleon Sevres china which their dear mother gave to me, six
silver shells marked E. H. C., and a small silver vase, same
mark.

To Mrs. Theodore S. Ferry of Bethel, Ct. I give my small
silver sugar basket, with blue glass lining, now in red parlor
cabinet.

To Miss Julia Gilbert, I give my small silver lamp for
writing table, and two short plated candle sticks now in my
sitting room.

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To Mrs. Josephine E. S. Porter, I give one dozen bouillon cups and saucers.

To Rev. & Mrs. George T. Linsley I give one silver fruit dish, one dozen pie forks, with gilt tines, and one dozen china plates.

To Mrs. Chauncey B. Brewster, I give one dozen bouillon cups & saucers with plates to match dark blue and flowers.

To little Elizabeth Alden Robinson I give my wedding lace-- veil and flounces.

To Mary E. Brown now Mrs. Wilbur of North Providence, I give the set of pink cups & saucers and my pearl ring set in black enamel.

To Mrs. Lucy Graves, now residing at 337 Harkness Avenue, Cleveland, Ohio, I give my gold chatelaine with pendant watch, and one dozen plates.

I would like you to select some remembrance to send Cousin Maria Jarvis, 491 Henry Street, Brooklyn, and to Mary C. Speer, Craft Avenue, Pittsburg, Penn.

Feeling that I have set apart for our ever loyal nephew Samuel C. Colt such portion of the silver which belonged to my husband, his uncle, as is just, I ask you to send to Judge Le Baron E. Colt of Providence, Rhode Island, the silver articles named below to be divided with his brother Samuel Pomeroy Colt and their sister if they choose.

2 silver epergnes, two branches each, with their glass bowls and platteau belonging to them.

1 large solid silver tray,

1 large meat dish for hot water with cover, Colt crest handle,

2 small dishes for hot water with covers, handles Colt crest,

4 silver vegetable dishes with their covers, stands and lamps,

2 cake baskets,

1 large tureen and ladle,

2 gravy boats and the plates in which they stand,

2 gravy ladles,

1 syrup cup and plate,

1 butter dish,

1 large fork in case marked S. C.

1 doz. fruit knives,

and all the forks and spoons of different sizes, crest mark, not before herein given to Samuel C. Colt in this letter.

If there are any special pieces of furniture that any of my family, sister, nieces or nephews would like to have, beyond those pieces I have mentioned, I would like them to have their choice, but it is my wish that a large part of the furniture shall remain for the use of the Home.

Let Aunty Hart's organ remain in the house. It may give pleasure to some one.

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The two silver wire baskets, used on my table for bread
for many years &c. and which belonged to my grandparents Richard
& Elizabeth Hart, I hope some of the family will keep.

There is a good deal of table glass which some of the
family may like to have.

It seems to me that the contents of the wine cellar, after
Fred, Charlie and George have taken such portions as they wish,
and such other things in the house, as are not otherwise dispos-
ed of to the family, and would not be needed for the Home, had
better be sold, and any sum resulting therefrom divided between
Mrs. Fitzgerald, Lizzie George and yourself.

I have not disposed of my diamond necklace, bracelet,
brooch and ear rings, my husband's wedding gifts to me, and which
after my little daughters died I hoped might have gone to a
granddaughter-- it is my wish to sell them and put the amount
into some memorial of my husband or Caldwell.

The dear Dauntless has been arranged so it can be used
for the good of others. Sometimes, you will I hope take the
children to see it.

The silver toilet set which your Uncle Richard, Caldwell
and I gave your mother I hope you will retain, and I want you
to have the dozen Copeland ware plates with the wide figured
gold border and bouquets of colored flowers in the centre. It
is the most expensive of all the plates.

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Since the change in the ownership of the armory, I have
remade my will, but it is substantially the same as the other.

In Caldwell's first made will he left this our dear home
to me if I outlived him, if not it was to be a Home for impover-
ished ladies. I feel that the property so generously and un-
reservedly intrusted to me should go to some charity perpetuating
their names.

Towards my own family I have endeavored to be just, and
I hope there will be no dissatisfaction or disposition to ques-
tion what I arranged for.

I am asking you to do a good deal, but trust you entire-
ly to do it, for the old Aunty who has loved you all your life,
and to whom you have been as a daughter.

May God bless you and the little ones and Charlie, and
give you a long, useful and happy life together, united in all
that is good and pure and true in this life, and a blessed life
in the enduring country beyond the dark river. So many of my
best beloved are there, that it will be like going home when the
summons for me comes.

Always in life and death your fond and faithful Aunt.

Elizabeth H. Colt.

Armsmear, July 15th, 1905.

There are seven sheets of this letter.

E. H. C.

You will find a paper box containing a number of articles

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done up and addressed to the persons I would like to have them.

I would like Fred F. G. to have some pieces of silver,
as I thought better to give the Colt silver to the Col. relatives
E. H. C.

List of furniture, china and glass which belonged to my grandparents.

6 small cane seated chairs and one larger arm chair, mahogany,

2 oval mahony tables with folding leaves & narrow inlaid borders,

1 mahogany dining table, now in third story hall, and one table
with one round end which was used with dining table, now in
lower hall,

1 mahony table with two leaves now in cloak room.

Set of Spode cups & saucers used every day since I can remember
at my grandparents & afterwards at Aunty Hart's when any one
besides herself was there. gave my pieces to Jerry Jones

A set of tall champagne glasses } cut glass,
" " " whipped cream glasses,

2 large glasses with covers, now in cabinet in red parlor,

Set of custard cups with covers, 6 without,

4 cut glass decanters, 2 large & 2 smaller,

1 large china bowl in library,

1 small " " " " much mended, this may have come
from Newport among pieces broken by British soldiers in the
Revolutionary War-- am not sure of this.

2 large mugs, with handles & decorated. Canton ware I think.

I should like these things to be kept in the family, and
you as the child of the elder sister should have the first

The life story of a family named Beach and its members.

choice, then my sister Mary Fitz Gerald or her children next
choice, and Mrs. G. W. Beach next.

I hope that whoever has the family portraits they will
give them a proper place, not in the attic or closet, as I would
rather have them remain in the Home instead.

Mrs. G. W. Beach should have her father's, and then I
should like it to go to the little boy named for him, and I give
Jarvis Beach his Uncle Richard's portrait, with the hope that he
will be as good and true a man as his uncle.

Then there are the portraits of my grandparents R. W. and
Elizabeth Hart and their daughters, my mother and Aunt Hetty when
young girls, and the portraits of my father & mother and Aunt,
my sister before her marriage to Mr. Beach, and of my two broth-
ers Richard & John. These six portraits were painted by Mat-
thew Wilson about 1859. These are all pastelles. Then there
are the portraits in oil of my two little brothers Willie and ?
Eddie who died of scarlet fever within three day of each other
when on a visit to grandma and Aunt Hetty at their home on Asy-
lum Hill.

In the Matter of
The Federal Estate Tax
Upon the Estate of
Elizabeth H. J. Robinson, deceased

STATE OF RHODE ISLAND
CITY OF NEWPORT

GUSTAVE J. S. WHITE, being duly sworn deposes and

says:

I am President of Gustave J. S. White, Inc., real estate agents, City of Newport, State of Rhode Island, and have been engaged in the real estate business in said City for the past twelve years.

I am familiar with the value of real estate in said City of Newport, and I herewith state that, in my opinion, the fair market value of the below described parcel of real estate on March 7th, 1956 was as follows:

**Land:**
situate on the westerly side of Kay Street, no. 52, at the corner of Ayrault Street, Newport, Rhode Island and containing approximately 40,075 sq. ft. $ 5,000.00

## BUILDINGS AND IMPROVEMENTS

**Dwelling:**
"Heartsease" situate on Kay Street, Newport, Rhode Island. A detailed description of which is set forth in Exhibit A herewith attached and made a part hereof 4,500.00

**Garage:**
Situate on Ayrault Street, Newport, Rhode Island. A description of which is set forth in Exhibit B herewith attached and made a part hereof 500.00
$10,000.00

Sworn to before me this 11 day of May, 1956.