Word: bequeathed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Sixteenth - I give and bequeath to the College of New Jersey, of which the Rev. James McCosh, D. D., is president, all my books and works relating to natural history and all the minerals, shells and other specimens illustrative of natural history which may remain after the bequest contained in the next preceding article hereof, to the American Museum of Natural History, shall have been satisfied, in conformity with the terms and conditions thereof...
...give and bequeath to the College of New Jersey, located at Princeton, in the State of New Jersey, to which I have already given largely during my lifetime...
...supposed that the executors had always intended to resign their claim to the property. As there is a state law forbidding a man with a family to bequeath more than half of his property to institutions, and as the will provided that $2,100,000 should be given to colleges, etc., Mr. Fayerweather probably entrusted the residuary legacy of some $1,500,000 to the executors with the secret understanding that they should in turn give it to the colleges...
...further give and bequeath to the said corporation the sum of twenty thousand dollars upon trust to keep the same invested upon good income paying securities or property and to apply the income thereof from time to time towards the expenses of maintenance and care of the said Art Museum, and the surplus of such income, if any, to the purchase of works of art to be added to the said museum...
...also give and bequeath to the said corporation the marble bust of my said husband made by the late H. K. Browne, sculptor, to be kept in a suitable hall or room in the said Art Museum...