Signed Sealed published pronounced and Declared by Thomas Hazard the Testator be be (sic) his Last Will and Testament in the prefence of us as Witnefses. ANDREW NICHOLS ROBERT KNOWLES. fon of JOSEPH BE IT REMEMBERED that at a Town Council held in South Kingston the 10th September A D 1798. Personally came Messrs Andrew Nichols & Andrew Nichols Jun'. and on their Solemn Affirmation declare & say that they Signed their Names as Witnesses to the preceeding last Will & Testament of Mr Thomas Hazard Decd, together with Mr Robert Knowles and the Testator Signed his Name in their presence & they Signed as Witnesses in his presence & in presence of each other at the same time, and that said Testator was then in his perfect mind and Memory. Whereupon said last Will and Testament being thus proved it is approved of as and to be the last Will and Testament of said Testator. Signed by Order of said Town Council JAMES HELME Council Clerk Recorded the foregoing in the Council Book No. 6 belonging to South Kingston Pages 416. 417 and 418. Sept. 18. 1798. JAMES HELME, C. Crk 50 Cents.-T. Hazards Will XVIII. RHODE ISLAND CURRENCY. Quotations from the letter of Governor Richard Ward to the English Board of Trade, January 9, 1740, showing the value of different issues of paper money in silver.1 Table fixing the value of old tenor bills at different periods, for the use of the courts, made by the General Assembly June, 1763.3 1 S. S. Rider, R. I. Historical Tracts, No. 8, p. 55. |