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and to be equally divided between them share and share alike; the shares of my said songs to be paid to them respectively as they attain to the age of twenty one, the interest in the meantime or so much thereof as may be necessary for that purpose to be applied by my Executors to their education and support; but in the ease of my said daughters, my will is that the interest of their respective shares is to be paid to them yearly during their lives, and in case they should marry not to be under the control of their husbands or liable for their debts; and upon the deaths of my said daughters their respective shares are to be equally divided among their children, but if either of them die without issue her share is to go to her surviving brothers and sister equally to be divided between them.
Sixth— I do hereby give to my Executors hereinafter unnamed and the survivors or survivor of them full power and authority to sell and convey in fee simple the whole or any portion of my real estate not herein specifically devised, and also to sell and dispose of any part of my personal estate when ever in their judgment it may be advisable to do so, and the process of all such sales to invest from time to time in bonds and mortgages, or in productive stocks as they may deem best for the interest of my estate,
Lastly— I do hereby constitute and appoint my brother James Potter, my brother in law Robert F Stockton and my friend Richard S. Field Executors of this my last will and testament, and Guardians of my children until they attain to the ages of twenty one years,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Thomas F Potter to be his last will and testament in the presence of us
Geo T Olmsted
Phillip Henndrickson
Peter S Voorheese
Thomas F. Potter
Sixth— I do hereby give to my Executors hereinafter unnamed and the survivors or survivor of them full power and authority to sell and convey in fee simple the whole or any portion of my real estate not herein specifically devised, and also to sell and dispose of any part of my personal estate when ever in their judgment it may be advisable to do so, and the process of all such sales to invest from time to time in bonds and mortgages, or in productive stocks as they may deem best for the interest of my estate,
Lastly— I do hereby constitute and appoint my brother James Potter, my brother in law Robert F Stockton and my friend Richard S. Field Executors of this my last will and testament, and Guardians of my children until they attain to the ages of twenty one years,
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this twenty first day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Signed sealed published and declared by the said Thomas F Potter to be his last will and testament in the presence of us
Geo T Olmsted
Phillip Henndrickson
Peter S Voorheese
Thomas F. Potter