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STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
Washington, Sc. Clerk's Office of the Probate Court of the Town of Hopkinton.
I, Elmer S. Kenyon, Clerk of the Probate Court of the Town of Hopkinton, having by law the custody of the seal, and all the records, books, documents and papers of or pertaining to said Court, hereby certify the papers hereto annexed to be true copies of papers appertaining to said Court, and on files or of record in said office, to wit: the last will and testament of Mildred Pauline Briggs, alias, Mildred P. Briggs, late of Hopkinton, deceased.
And I further certify that the proof of said will in said Court was by oral testimony only, and that there are no proofs or substance of proofs on file in said Court.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Court this twenty-seventh day of April, in the year of our lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-six.
(L. S.) ELMER S. KENYON, Clerk
KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS
That I, Mildred P. Briggs, of the town of Hopkinton, in the county of Washington and State of Rhode Island, being of lawful age and of sound disposing mind and memory, do hereby make, publish and declare this my last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void any and all wills by me heretofore made, in the manner following, that is to say:
1. I direct the payment of all my just debts.
2. All my property and estate, real, personal and mixed, wherever situated and however described, I hereby give, devise and bequeath unto my husband, A. Lloyd Briggs, to him and his heirs and assigns forever.
3. My omission to make provision herein for my children is intentional, as I will leave this matter to the discretion and desire of my husband.
4. I hereby nominate and appoint my said husband, A. Lloyd Briggs to be executor of this will and direct that he not be required to give surety on his bond.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal, this 12th, day of June, A. D., 1922.
MILDRED P. BRIGGS (L. S.)
Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named testatrix as and for her last will and testament in the presence of us, who, in her presence, in the presence of each other and at her request have hereunto subscribed our names as witnesses.
CLARENCE S. ROCHE
HARRY B. AGAND
Received for record January 26th, A. D. 1937 at 3:00 o'clock, p. m., and recorded by [?] Town Clerk.
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