Title
[Document, 1788 July 17;modified 1789 June 23]
Library Location
Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University
Name
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 (Author)
Format
correspondence
Digital Project
Papers of John Jay
Date
July 17, 1788; modified June 23, 1789
Language
English
Physical Description
16 pages
Subjects
United States--History--1783-1865; Jay, John, 1745-1829
Summary
Certified copy of will and codicil of Benjamin Franklin as admitted to probate April 24, 1790, naming John Hay as an Executor. Leaves son, William Franklin, lands in Nova Scotia, and requests that debts against son on his account books, not be prosecuted. Otherwise the son is not to partake of Estate he attempted to deprive his father of in the last war. Devises house and bequeaths silver and household goods to daughter Sarah Bache and her husband Richard Bache, for life, then to their children as tenants in common. Lands near the Ohio, and some in Philadelphia. Given to Richard Bache outright; Bache's indebtedness forgiven if he will manumit a slave named Bob. A house and annuity to sister Jane Mecom. Option to take up lands in Georgia to William Temple Franklin. Books to American Philosophical Society, Library Company of Philadelphia, Philosophical Society of Philadelphia, and certain individuals. A trust set up for the free public schools of Boston, for making the scholarship award. Another for making the Schuylkill River navigable. Executors Henry Hill, John Jay, Francis Hopkinson and Edward Duffield. Will dated 17 July 1788. Codicil revokes trust to make Schuylkill navigable, adds trust to set up Boston printer and other artificers, and for other charitable purposes. The same to the Inhabitants of Philadelphia. A gold cane to George Washington.
Identifier
columbia.jay.05603