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John married Sabra Smith of Kent, and their children were Elizabeth and Harriet.
Ambrose married Mary Ann Pratt of Guilford, by whom he had six children; their names were Samuel, James, Charles, Henry, Elizabeth, and Emma. He afterwards married Mary Talcott of Vernon, Conn .; they had no children.
Eber married Bathsheba Talcott of Vernon; they had three children, but one of whom, Rhoda, lived to grow up. His second wife was Mrs. Ralph Talcott (Susan Bull); they had no children.
Eliza married George Wheaton of Cornwall; they had one child, Lucetta. The Cotter family was highly respected in all its branches.
THE BALDWIN FAMILY.
Henry Baldwin was a Revolutionary soldier from Saybrook, Conn. He served as a private during the war, and returned home at its close, with $150 of "Continental money " in his pocket. This soon depreciated in value to such an extent, that he offered the whole sum in exchange for a bushel of wheat, and was refused.
Not discouraged by adversity, he soon after married Jane Ship- man, a native of the same town, and emigrated to Cornwall, where he became the tenant of Dea. Noah Rogers, on the farm now owned by T. S. Gold, in Cornwall Hollow.
Here were born to him twelve children, ten of whom outlived their parents. Their names were Ithamar, Henry, Jane, Ann, Hannah, Polly, Noah, Jabez, William, and Abby.
Ithamar m. Electa Millard of Cornwall; had children, Charles, Lucretia, and Marcia.
Henry m. Mitylene Millard of Cornwall; two of their three chil- dren lived to grow up. William and Artemisia.
Jane m. Joel Trowbridge of Goshen; had four children, Lucy, Caroline, Mary, and Anson.
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Ann did not marry.
Hannah m. James Ford of Cornwall; had children who lived to maturity, John, Chester, Chauncey, James, Ellen, Mary, Sarah, and Lydia.
Polly m. Chester Markham of Wrentham, Mass .; had children, Martha, Phebe, and William.
Nouh m. Sabra Smith Cotter, widow of John Cotter of Corn- wall; his children were Andrew and Chauncey.
William mn. Julia Trafford of Cornwall, and had children, Henry, Horace, James, Russell, Frank, Edward, Electa, and Eliza- beth, besides one boy who died in childhood.
Abby m. Rogers White of Cornwall; had children, Edward and Cynthia.
Mrs. Henry Baldwin was a notable housewife, and it was a com- mon remark, that " Miss Baldin's Johnny-cake was ahead of some peoples' loaf-cake stuffed full of raisins."
Mr. and Mrs. Baldwin brought up their family in habits of industry, integrity, and sobriety; and it is believed that no mem- ber of the family, or its descendants thus far, has brought disgrace upon the name.
('apt. Phineas Baldwin and Harry Baldwin, brothers, came from Milford.
Phineas m. Nancy Rexford, and had children, Rexford, Riley, and Robert, and a daughter, wife of R. T. Miner.
Ile was a carpenter and joiner, and lived at South Cornwall. His sons were farmers and lived in the same vicinity.
Harvey Baldwin is a farmer; bought the Joel Catlin place at North Cornwall, where he now resides. He has no children.
Birdsey Baldwin was of still another family, and came from Goshen in 1841. He was a lawyer, and lived at West Cornwall; one son, Daniel, lives at West Cornwall, as also a daughter, Laura, widow of Myron Hubbell; another son, Abrain E., graduated at Yale, 1854, studied theology, and is now a successful clergyman at Bound Brook, N. J.
THIE CALIIOUN FAMILY.
Dr. John Calhoun, son of Dr. John Calhoun of Washington, came to Cornwall in 1792, and in 1804 was followed by his brother Dea. Jedediah Calhoun, who located as a farmer in the southwest part of the town. Dr. Calhoun was a successful practitioner for forty-six years, and had a numerous family.
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Mary m. Rufus Payne; Sarah F. m. Stephen J. Gold; Ruth m. Frederic Kellogg; Charlotte m. Myron Harrison; Harriett m. Wm. L. Clark; Joseph Fay, residing in Wolcottville; John Benjamin, residing near Chicago.
The children of Dea. Calhoun were: John Clark, m. Sarah War- ner of Plymouth, June, 1840; Frederic J .; David P., who lived at West Haven; Mary, m. Chas. L. Ford of Washington; Abby J.
John C. Calhoun went as a clerk to Plymouth in 1832, and after- wards engaged there in mercantile business. In 1846 he went to New York, establishing the firm of Calhoun & Vanderburg. The firm was afterwards changed to Robbins, Calhoun & Co. As a busi- ness man he was eminently successful, rapidly accumulating a hand- some fortune; but he was better known to us as a liberal-hearted Christian gentleman. His love for the quiet scenery of his native town induced him to purchase for a summer residence the old homestead of Parson Stone, in the village of Cornwall, about 1866. The enthusiasm with which he entered upon its improvement was only surpassed by his public spirit and liberality. The adormment of the cemetery at South Cornwall, upon which he expended $1,000, and for the permanent care of which he gave $1,000, se- curely invested, and the establishment of a town library, with a trust fund of $2,000 for its annual enlargement, are examples of his judicious use of the property committed to his stewardship. He died in New York, November 26, 1874. We mourn his death as a great public misfortune. He left two promising sons.
THE BIRDSEYE FAMILY.
Ebenezer Birdseye, residing in the south part of the town, had a son, Victory, who received a liberal education and became a prom- inent lawyer, residing at Pompey, N. Y. He represented his dis- trict in the Congress of the United States, and was appointed an especial attorney to prosecute the abductors of Morgan. His son, Judge Lucius Birdseye, of New York, was a graduate of Yale, 1841. There are none of the name now residing in Cornwall. Ezekiel B., brother of Victory, went West.
THE ANDREWS FAMILY.
Rev. William Andrews was installed pastor of the church at South Cornwall, July 25, 1827, where he remained till his death, January 1, 1838. For his record the reader is referred to Mr. Stone's Ecclesiastical History. He had a numerous family, whose
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youth was spent in Cornwall, and are remembered here with high esteem, and Cornwall claims an interest in their honorable record.
WILLIAM WATSON, born at Windham, Conn., in 1810, was grad- uated at Yale College in 1831. He was pastor of the Congre- gational church at Kent, Conn., for fifteen years. Has resided at Wethersfield for some years.
EDWARD WARREN, born at Windham in 1811, studied law, and was partner of Hon. Truman Smith, at Litchfield; afterwards studied theology, and was settled at West Hartford, New York City, and Troy, N. Y. He established the Alger Institute at Cornwall, and subsequently resumed the practice of law. He was an officer in the army during the war.
SARAH PARKHILL, married Mr. A. W. Hyde, of Castleton, Vt., and died in 1840.
ISRAEL WARD, D.D., LL.D .. born at Danbury, Conn., January 3, 1815, was graduated at Williams College in 1837. He taught the Academy at Lee, Mass., for fifteen months; was appointed Tutor at Marietta College in 1838, Professor of Mathematics in 1839, and President in 1855, which office he still holds.
SAMUEL JAMES, born at Danbury, 1817, was graduated at Wil- liams College in 1839. After practicing law for a short time, he entered the ministry, and was settled at East Windsor. He has resided for many years at Hartford.
TIMOTHY LANGDON was born at Danbury in 1819, studied medi- cine at Castleton, Vt., practiced at New Orleans, was an editor in California and then in Ohio, and is now engaged in his profession at Creston, Iowa.
EBENEZER BALDWIN was born in Danbury in 1821, was gradu- ated at Marietta College in 1842, became pastor of the North Con- gregational church at New Britain, Conn., and was appointed pro- fessor of Geology, etc., at Marietta College in 1851. In 1870 he was appointed Assistant Geologist for Ohio, and now resides at Lancaster, O. lIe was two years in the army, Colonel of the 36th O. V. I. The degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Marietta College in 1870.
THE IVES FAMILY.
Theodore Ives, brother of Cephas Ives of Goshen, about 1800 came from that town, married a daughter of Noah Rogers, 4th, and set up his trade at North Cornwall. He had but one son,
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Theodore, who now occupies his farm. Theodore married Mary, daughter of Leete Rogers, and has three children.
Rev. Mark Ives, son of Cephas, received a liberal education, and went as a missionary to the Sandwich Islands in 1836, and remained there fourteen years, when, on account of the failure of his health, he returned to this country with his family, and settled as a farmer in Cornwall. Those who enjoy the privilege of a personal ac- quaintance with Mr. and Mrs. Ives, can testify to their rich ( 'hristian experience, the true missionary spirit, not exhausted by their residence in heathen lands, but developed and enlarged.
In answer to my inquiries, Mr. Ives has furnished some interest- ing facts connected with his residence in the Sandwich Islands:
" I graduated at Union College in the summer of 1833; studied divinity two years at Andover, and nearly a year at East Windsor. My wife's name was Mary Anna Brainerd, of North Guilford. We sailed from Boston December 14, 1836. I remained at the Sandwich Islands fourteen years. I was absent from the United States fourteen and a half years. My wife was absent seventeen and a half years. We were stationed at Hana, on the eastern ex- tremity of Mani, a place much exposed to the trade-winds. We commenced life in a house made by planting posts in the ground and sticks tied across them; the whole covered with grass. On March 21, 1838, during my absence, our house took fire and burned to the ground. This left us very much exposed; my wife took a severe cold, and was threatened with consumption. We were con- sequently removed to Kealakekua, on the east side of Hawaii (O)wyhee). Here we lived nine years, or until my health failed. With the advice of the physicians, and being commended by the mission to our secretary in Boston, I left the Sandwich Islands December 9, 1850. My health not being restored as was expected, my family left there December 1, 1853.
" We have four children. Our eldest son. Joseph Brainerd, is laboring as a home missionary in Douglas, Butler County, Kansas. Our second son, Harlan Page, is living near us, in Cornwall. He has seven children. Our third child, Mary Parnellie, is with us, at home. Our youngest daughter, Hattie Elizabeth, is teaching school in the vicinity of Waterbury.
Kealakekua, where we were last stationed, is about a mile from Haawaloa, where Mr. Ely lived, and where Capt. Cook lost his life. The trees around bore marks of cannon-balls, fired among the natives to revenge his death.
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Kealakekua is where Opukaia (Obookiah) lived. Here was for- merly a small pen, enclosed by a rude stone wall, where he wor- shiped. In this was a cocoanut-tree planted by his own hands, the fruit of which was given to none but to us missionaries.
Contiguous to this was the temple where Capt. Cook allowed himself to be worshiped as God. The stones of that temple con- tributed towards building a large house of worship to Jehovah.
We arrived at the Sandwich Islands just before the great revival that swept over the islands and lasted two years. There was no difficulty in getting crowded houses and attentive listeners. There seemed to be an almost universal desire to enter the church.
A church was organized at Kealakekua, under the care of Mr. Forbes, of 3,000 members, and another at Kealia, twelve miles beyond, of nearly as many, which was under my care.
The children of a suitable age were without exception gathered into schools. Our thirty-three schools numbered over 1,000 chil- dren, 996 of whom were present in the schools when I last exam- ined them.
His second son, Harlan, married a daughter of William Vail, by whom he has a numerous family.
THE DEAN FAMILY.
John Dean, the shoemaker, had children, Zerah, Jerijah, Jere- siah, William, and Ethel. Zerah had children, Theodore, living in Sharon; one daughter married William Smith, and another, Alvin Palmer. Jerijah, father of William Dean, now living at West Cornwall. Jeresiah had daughters, Mary, married Barbarina Eggleston; Morilla, married Daniel Bronson; William, married Richardson, and went to Sharon. His descendants now live in Winsted.
ENSIGN NATHAN MILLARD,
father of Joel Millard, settled on Cream Hill. Joel married Azubah Sherwood, and had children, Ebenezer Sherwood; Sub- mit, married Henry Baldwin, lived in Cornwall; Electa, married Ithamar Baldwin, lived in Cornwall; Amanda, married Kilborn, a hatter, and lived in Litchfield; Melissa; John Walker, went to New Marlboro, and thence to Illinois; Azubah, married Rood of Sheffield.
His second wife was Mrs. Theodore Norton, and had children, Clarissa and Franklin. Mr. Millard removed with his son Walker to New Marlboro, about 1835, having sold his farm to E. D. P'ratt.
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Mr. Millard was proverbially a slow man, yet the abundant young life in his family must have made lively times.
THE REXFORD FAMILY.
Rev. Gurdon Rexford, a Methodist minister, and his brother Samuel Rexford, settled on Cream Hill, towards the close of the last century.
Samuel had one son, Riley, who succeeded to the ownership of his farm, and a daughter, Nancy, who married Capt. Phineas Baldwin and resided at South Cornwall.
Riley married Sarah Scoville and had two daughters. Harriet married Aaron Chase of Saratoga County, N. Y., and lives in Sheffield, Mass .; and Jane married Thomas Bosworth of Duchess County, and lives at West Cornwall.
Mr. Rexford was a farmer, endeared to his neighbors by his kind, neighborly ways, to whom his genial presence was always gratifying.
THE PRINDLE FAMILY.
Abiel Prindle, who lived near Cream Hill lake, was the father of Warren and Joseph Prindle; he also had two daughters, Alice, married Mr. Barnes; and Anna. Warren had sons, Samuel and Harmanus, who still survive and have families. Joseph and Anna lived to a good old age, but remained unmarried. Joseph was quite a character in his day. He was an indulged boy, who played truant, and grew up a slave to a hard master, even his own ungov- erned passions. In his youth he had some ambition, and aspired to the study of Latin, and to making poetry. One stanza will suffice:
" Dr. Frank, He felt so crank, He danced like a dandy, O; He jumped so high He hit the sky, And thought he'd got Miss Pangman, O."
THE JUDSON FAMILY.
SAMUEL AGUR JUDSON came to Cornwall in 1794, with his sister, Sarah A., from Old Mill, Bridgeport, and bought the farm from Mr. Thorp, where Harlan Ives now resides. He had one son, Samuel Wesley, and several daughters. A few years since he went to New York to live with his son, and died there in his 89th year. Samuel Wesley was a graduate of Union College; taught the academy in Goshen for several terms, about 1830; studied law, and established himself in New York. As a lawyer, he is more
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distinguished for his learning, integrity, and honesty, than for his brilliancy as a pleader. If lawyers were more generally of his style, we should have fewer lawsuits and more justice.
THE REED FAMILY.
Eli Reed was a native of Fairfield County. He was a goldsmith in the time of the Revolution, and resided in Poughkeepsie. He went to New York, designing to remove his family there, but died, leaving a widow and six children. Her name was Weed, and she went back to her friends in Fairfield County, afterwards removing with one of her brothers to Greenfield, Saratoga County, N. Y. . Two of her sons came to Cornwall. Hawley Reed married a daughter of James Wadsworth; died, at the age of eighty years, in 1841. Had children, James, who married Rhoda, daughter of Richard Wickwire, and bought the farm of his father-in-law on Cream Hill, and reared a numerous family, who are still with us ; Hawley, John, Henry, Samuel-who lives in the south part of the town, and has a family; also several daughters-one married Hiram Garner.
Henry, ten years younger than Hawley, came to Cornwall in his boyhood, and lived with Capt. Pierce and . Capt. Edward Rogers. In 1799 married Sarah Abiah Judson, who was born at Old Mill, Bridgeport, in 1770, and came to Cornwall in 1794, with her brother, Samuel Agur Judson.
Mr. Reed bought the farm in the Hollow at the foot of Bunker Hill, now Solon Johnson's, and resided there till his death, in 1842, aged 68. He had two daughters, one of whom, Alicia, lives in Goshen.
THE MARSH FAMILY.
Dr. ISAAC MARSH Was born in 1777, in Litchfield, where his ances- tors had lived. His father and grandfather were also named Isaac. He studied medicine with Dr. Woodward of Torringford, but being of rather a nervous temperament, shrank from the practice of the profession. He was occupied for a time as druggist, but temporarily took up the business of farming, and followed it for life. He married in 1803, and in 1820 bought a farm in Cornwall of Rev. Asa Talmage, located near the Housatonic River, north of the intersection of the Waller Ilill road with the Warren turnpike. This was two miles north of Hart's Bridge, now West Cornwall. At that time there was but one house at the bridge, called the " Hart House," where now stands the residence of Isaac Marsh.
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Dr. Marsh died in 1829, æt. fifty-two. His oldest son Isaac, now residing at West Cornwall, at the age of seventy-four years, is the only survivor of seven children. Has held the office of town clerk, and other offices of trust. The second son died at Racine, Wis .. in 1873, æt. sixty-four. 3 Five daughters died young-between 1828-38, aged from seventeen to twenty-five years.
THE STODDARD FAMILY.
William Stoddard came from Woodbury, m. Mary Willis of Cornwall, May 27, 1809, and settled as a manufacturer and farmer on the Pond brook, one and a half miles from West Cornwall. His farm is now owned by S. P. Fritz; the mill-privilege by T. S. Gold. His old satinet factory, gone to decay, is owned by S. M. Gledhill. Mr. Stoddard had a family of twelve children, none of whom reside in Cornwall.
His wife Mary died in 1837, aged forty-four, and he died in 1875, aged eighty-six; children, Hammond, b. Oct. 30, 1810, m. Sally A. Wheeler of Salisbury; Sarah M., b. June 31, 1812, m. Henry L. Safford, Buffalo, N. Y .; Harriet, b. March 17, 1814, d. March 20, 1836; Seth, b. March 22, 1816, d. Jan. 1, 1859; m. Mary Ann Brush, and lived in New Haven; Jane, b. March 17, 1818, d. Feb. 24, 1832; Minerva A., b. March 27, 1820, m. Hor- ace H. Sexton, Hartford; Elizabeth S., b. Nov. 9, 1823, m. Hon. C. P. Huntington, New York.
In the account of the Chapel at West Cornwall, notice is given of the liberal gift of Mr. and Mrs. Huntington to that enterprise.
Clara, b. July 21, 1824, m. Edward Prentice of Canaan, resides in Colorado; Hannah, b. Aug. 15, 1826, m. Daniel Hammond of Oneonta, N. Y., resides in California; William M., b. Nov. 12, 1828, m. Jennie Wilson, California; Mary J., b. Aug. 12, 1831, m. Delos Emmons, Oneonta, N. Y., resides in Huntington, West Vir- ginia; Julia M., b. Feb. 16, 1834, m. Asa N. Hawley of Newtown.
This family are widely scattered, and their history would fill a volume. Few families in New England can boast of more varied experience and greater influence.
THE MALLORY FAMILY.
Dea. Eliakim Mallory came from Hamden, near the close of the last century, and settled where Julius Hart now lives. Frequent mention of his name appears in the Church History.
His first wife was Sarah Bradley of Stockbridge, Mass., by
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whom he had five children, Ezra, Eliakim, Philomela, Sarah, and Mary Ann, who married Miner Pratt of Cream Hill. His second wife was widow Johnson (Olive Douglas), by whom he had two children,-Bradley, m. widow Wadsworth (Tabitha Clark); Olive, m. Mr. Kellogg, and went to Green River, Columbia Co., N. Y.
Bradley had six children,-Almon, Davis C., Ambrose, Harri- ette, Jane, and Mary; Almon m. daughter of Rev. Asa Talmage, is a Baptist minister, and lives at Benton Center, N. Y.
THE SMITH FAMILY.
The Smiths have never been very numerous in Cornwall. Rev. Walter Smith came from Kent in 1819, and in 1838 went to Ohio. He had sons,-Matthew LaRue Perrine, and twins, Walter and Harvey. Perrine lives at the West. Walter settled as a lawyer in Mt. Vernon, Ohio, and is now in government employ at Washing- ton. Harvey was a physician in New York, and died at Mt. Vernon, Ohio.
David Smith, who for a time lived in the Hollow, came from the Sharon side of the Housatonic, and returned to the same neighborhood after a few years. ·
William and Frank Smith were brothers, and lived near Gold's mill in 1850-60. William m. Nancy Dean, and had one daughter, Honora. He removed to Newark, N. J.
Frank Smith had a numerous family of promising boys. He removed to Brookfield, Conn., where he now resides. One son, Thomas, left a leg on a battlefield of Virginia.
THE GOLD FAMILY.
This family was connected with the earliest settlement of the State. By these first settlers for three generations the name was spelled Gold, yet for some reason, portions of the family have changed to Gould, yet most of those holding that name have no connection with the Golds. In this record we give the name as spelled by the owners, descendants of Major Nathan Gold.
Major Nathan Gold married Martha, widow of Edward Harvey. They had only one son, Nathan, and daughters, Sarah, who married John Thompson ; Deborah, who married George Clark ; Abigail, who married Jonathan Sellick.
Major Nathan Gold removed from St. Edmondsbury, in South Britain, to Fairfield, Conn., in the reign of Charles II., and was one of the first settlers of that town. He was a wealthy and edu-
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cated gentleman, and is often mentioned in Smith's History of New York.
In the first volume of the town records of Fairfield, we find him a landholder in 1649, and in 1653, a purchaser of fifteen separate pieces of land, some of which remains in the possession of his descendants of the sixth generation.
He was one of the petitioners (nineteen in number) named in the charter of Connecticut, dated April 12th, in the fourteenth year of the reign of Charles II, which petition " was signed by no gentleman unless he had sustained a high reputation in England before he came to New England."
He was an assistant or member of the Council from 1657 to 1694, and " departed this life into the Mantions of Rest upon the day of Rest, on Saboth, it being the 4th day of March, 1693-4."
Inventory of his estate, £400 3s. 6d.
There is a gun in the possession of T. S. Gold, which tradition says was brought by him from England.
Nathan Gold, Jr.,
married Hannah, born in Hartford, Dec. 8, 1663, daughter of Lieut .- Col. John Talcott and Helena Wakeman. He died Oct. 3, 1723. Hannah died March 28, 1696. His second wife, Sarah, died Oct. 17, 1711.
Had children : Abigail, born Feb., 1687, married Rev. Thomas Hawley of Ridgefield; John, born April 25, 1688, married Hannah Slawson, died Sept. 23, 1766 ; Nathan, born April 6, 1690; Samuel, born Dec. 27, 1692. had six children; Joseph, born -- , died Oct. 11, 1769, æ. 77; Rev. Hezekiah, born -, 1694, had 13 chil- dren; Onesimus, married and had a family; David; Martha, mar- ried Samuel Sherman, April 4, 1728.
Nathan Gold, Jr., was long engaged in public service; was Re- corder of the town of Fairfield for many years, was an Assistant from 1694 to 1723, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court in 1712, and Lieut .- Gov. from 1708 to 1723, a period of fifteen years.
We can find no trace of any living descendants from his sons, except from Samuel and Hezekialı. A copy of his will, as recorded in Hartford, is here given.
Inventory of his estate, £2,953 6s. 8d.
Will of Nathan Gold.
Superior Court Records of the Colony of Connecticut, in New England, Vol. III, p. 545 :
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John Gold of Fairfield, &c., Executors to the Last Will and Testament of the Honl. Nathan Gold, Esq., late of sª Fairfield, deceased, appealed to this Court from the Determination of the Court of Probate, held at Fairfield, November 27th, 1723, not approving the sª Last Will and Testament, the sª Appellants appeared at this Court to set up the sª Will, and no person appearing to oppose them, or to object against the approving thereof, the sd Will being proved in the sd Court of Probate, the same is by this Court approved of, and ordered to be recorded.
In the name of God, Amen.
I, Nathan Gold, Sen., of Fairfield, in the County of Fairfield, in the Colony of Connecticut, in New England, being very sick in body, yet of good understanding, and sound memory, knowing that I must shortly put off this Earthly Tabernacle. and accounting it my Duty to set my house in Order, do make this my last Will and Testament, in manner and form following, hereby revoking and annulling every and all other Will and Wills, Testament and Testaments heretofore made by me, declaring this to be my last Will and Testament.
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