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WILLS 
1855  
1859--1863  
PROBATE COURT  
 
LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF  
R.B. BUCHANAN  
Deceased  
 
Together with Testimony and Certificate of Property.  
 
Filed July 2d A.D. 1855  
W. W. Dobbins, Clerk  
Probate Court, Yuba County  
Pr. M.D. Dobbins, Dept'y.  
 
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN; I, Robert B. Buchanan of the City of Marysville
Yuba County, State of California, of the age of thirty-three years, and being
of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this, my last will and
testament in manner following that is to say:

First: - I give and bequeath to my wife, Manerva Buchanan the Sum of Ten 
Thousand Dollars, to my Father, Henry Buchanan the Sum of Two Thousand Dollars,
and to my niece, Agnes Ellen Wilts, the sum of One Thousand Dollars; which
said several legacies or sums of money I direct and order to be paid to the 
said respective legatees, within one year after my decease.  

Second,--I give and bequeath to my wife Manerva Buchanan all the rest, residue 
and remainder of my personal estate, good and chattles, of what nature or kind 
soever, after the payment of all my just debts. 
 
Third,--I give, devise and bequeath the one third of all my Real Estate of what 
nature or kind soever to my wife, Manerva Buchanan, in lieu of dower or right 
of dower in said estate.  

Fourth, - I give, bequeath and devise all of the balance of my real estate 
of what nature or kind soever to Manerva Buchanan, Executrix and Schuyler C. Tompkins,
executor of this my last will and testament hereinafter nominated 
and appointed, in trust for the payment of the legacies and charges upon the 
said estate herein after specified, to be held and possessed by them for the  

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