Fermanagh - Collum, John February 11, 1813 *********************************************** Ireland Genealogy Projects Archives Fermanagh Index Copyright ************************************************ File contributed by: Rosalind Dunning ros.dunning@outlook.com January 14, 2018, 1:10 pm COLLUM, JOHN FEBRUARY 11, 1813 Source: National Archives Kew England Written: February 11, 1813 Recorded: January 14, 2018 In the Name of God Amen I John Collum Surgeon Sally Bank Fermanagh Ireland being thanks to Divine Providence of a perfectly sound disposing mind memory & understanding and recollection for divers good causes and considerations me thereunto moving and in consequence of a former Will made by me shortly after my Arrival in this Country in May 1810 having most unaccountably disappeared from among my private Papers I think during my absence on an excursion to Belfast in September 1812 notwithstanding any all and every Will Testament promise or writing by me at anytime heretofore made to the contrary do leave devise and bequeath to my beloved Wife Margaret and the Heirs of her body whether male or female by me lawfully begotten all and singular the whole and every part of the Property whether in Money Goods or otherwise of which I shall be possessed at my death to be divided between them Share and Share alike and failing Heirs I leave devise and bequeath to my beloved Wife Margaret aforesaid all and singular the whole and every part of the Property whether in Money Goods or other Articles of which I shall be possessed at my death to be disposed of as she shall think proper and this provided nevertheless notwithstanding any all and every Will Testament promise or writing by me at anytime heretofore made to the contrary and this for the following reasons that Archy has more than sufficient for himself and family none of whom can I think from the nature of their Education cut a figure my father not being calculated to derive any benefit from a disposition in his farm and poor Daugs habits of life I much fear having wholly incapacitated from profitting with the Goods of this World and with the execution of this my last Will and Testament I charge and constitute and nominate and appoint as Executors my friend John Armstrong of Enniskillen Apothecary and my Brother in Law Alexander Mitchell Downs Wharf London who are hereby constituted nominated and appointed my Executors accordingly Given under my hand and seal this 11th day of February 1813 at Sally Bank John Collum _ Witness Nugent Bell Proved at London 21st November 1817 by the Oath of Alexander Mitchell the surviving Executor PCC Prob11/1598