{"id":6454,"date":"1867-04-23T10:12:00","date_gmt":"1867-04-23T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/dev2\/mcdonald-margaret-last-will-and-testament-1867\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T17:49:19","slug":"mcdonald-margaret-last-will-and-testament-1867","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/mcdonald-margaret-last-will-and-testament-1867\/","title":{"rendered":"McDonald, Margaret &#8211; Last Will and Testament (1867)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To my son&nbsp;<span style=\"background-position: 50% 100%;\" data-scaytid=\"1\" data-scayt_word=\"Vitalis\">Vitalis<\/span>&nbsp;(<span style=\"background-position: 50% 100%;\" data-scaytid=\"2\" data-scayt_word=\"Fidelis\">Fidelis<\/span>&nbsp;)\u2014I leave the farm on which I now reside, containing 50 acres of land as purchased from the Trustees of Charles&nbsp;<span style=\"background-position: 50% 100%;\" data-scaytid=\"3\" data-scayt_word=\"Worrell\">Worrell<\/span>&nbsp;Esquire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My daughters, Catherine and Margaret who are presently unmarried are permitted to reside in the dwelling house for as long as they live here. I leave each daughter equal shares of my property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I appoint Joseph&nbsp;<span style=\"background-position: 50% 100%;\" data-scaytid=\"4\" data-scayt_word=\"MacPhee\">MacPhee<\/span>&nbsp;of Big Marsh, Lot 42, executive of my will and testament. In case of any dispute between my son and daughters, I hope and expect each of them to yield to his decision on the matter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dated and Sealed on September 29, 1857<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Proved on March 22, 1867<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To my son&nbsp;Vitalis&nbsp;(Fidelis&nbsp;)\u2014I leave the farm on which I now reside, containing 50 acres of land as purchased from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[1438],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wills-estates"],"gutslider_comments":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7426,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6454\/revisions\/7426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peipioneercemetery.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}