Will - MacDonald, Vitalus (d. 1893)
WILL of Fidelis (Vitalis) McDonald of Lot 42
In the name of God Amen
I Fidelis (Vitalis) MacDonald of Monticello, Lot 42, in the County of King’s in the province of Prince Edward Island do make and ordain this as and for my last will and testament.
First I give my soul to God who gave it me and with regard to my estate and property, real and personal, I dispose of it in the manner herein following.
My two freehold farms, to wit the homestead, bounded on the north by the Gulf St. Lawrence on the west by lands owned by Angus McCormack, on the south by lands owned by Ronald A McDonald, and on the east by lands of Widow Ronald Ban McDonald, the same containing 60 acres a little more or less. Together with my wood farm on the Marsh Road and Bounded on the south by lands of James McCormack on the north lands of the widow Dominic McCormack on the east by the boundary line of township 43 and running west as described in the Deed, the same containing 60 acres a little more or less.
These two farms together with all the improvements and chattels of all kinds whatsoever, I five devise and bequeath to my beloved wife Margaret McDonald to hold and have during her natural life and at her death to descend to my sons Bernard and John. The disposition of the property to them is to rest with my wife Margaret. She will devise one of the farms to Bernard and one to John. She will see that whichever one of them is retained in the old homestead will render such assistance to the other as may seem reasonable to my execution to enable him to erect building thereon.
However under pain of nullity of the foregoing dispositions I enjoin on my wife Margaret and my heirs that she or thy do give a cow to my daughter Margaret, wife of Henry A Fraser and further that the protection and comforts of a home be always extended to my daughters Mary Flora and Malvina during their single lives.
I hereby appoint Henry A Fraser and Joseph McDonald, DK Smith, executors of this will.
Signed on March 23, 1885
Signed by Fidelis McDonald as and for his last will and testament. And we, at his request in his presence and in the presence of each other have set our signatures as subscribing witness the day and date hereinbefore mentioned.
DJG McDonald
Dugald McDonald
This will was proved on 24 October 1893 on the oath of DJG McDonald, one of the subscribing witnesses before Commissions Neil Macquarie and was filed and registered on October 28, 1893 as certified by Richard Reddin Judge of Probate.