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Lou got the household furniture
In response to many requests, we publish here the will
of Dr. William ("Tiger") Dunlop, outstanding figure of
the early days of the Huron Tract.
Probably no other testamentary document in Canada is
so well known. It has been republished times without
number, and although more than a century has passed
since it was written there is apparently no diminution of
interest in it.
IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN
I, William Dunlop of Gairbraid in the Township of Col-
borne, County and District of Huron, Western Canada, Es-
quire, being in sound health of body, and my mind just as
usual (which my friends who flatter me say is nogreat
shakes at the best of times), do make this my last will and
testament as follows, revoking of course all former wills.
I leave the property of Gairbraid and all other landed
property I may die possessed of to my sisters Helen Boyle
Story and Elizabeth Boyle Dunloe the former because she
is married to a minister whom (God help him) she
henpecks — the latter because she is married to nobody
nor is she likely to be, for she is an old maid and not
market rife, and also I leave to them, and their heirs, my
share of the stock and implements on the farm, provided
always that the enclosure round my brother's grave be
reserved — and if either should die without issue then the
other to inherit the whole.
I leave to my sister-in-law Louisa Dunlop all my share
of the household furniture and such traps with the excep-
tions hereinafter mentioned.
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I leave my silver tankard to the eldest son of old John as
the representative of the family. I would have left it to old
John himself, but he would melt it down to make
temperance medals and that would be sacrilege.
However, I leave my big horn snuffbox to him; he can only
make temperance horn spoons of that.
I leave my sister Jenny my Bible, the property formerly
of my great -great-grandmother Bethia Hamilton of Wood
Hall, and when she knows as much of the spirit of it as she
does of the letter, she will be another guise Christian than
she is.
I also leave my late brother's watch to my brother San-
dy, exhorting him at the same time to give up whiggery,
radicalism and all other sins that do most easily beset
him.
I leave my brother Allen my big silver snuff-box, as I
am informed he is rather a decent Christian with a swag
belly and a jolly face.
I leave Parson Chevasse (Maggy's husband) the snuff-
box I got from the Sarnia Militia, as a small token of my
gratitude for the service he has done the family in taking a
sister that no man of taste would have taken.
I leave John Caddle a silver teapot, to the end that he
may drink tea therefrom to comfort him under the afflic-
tion of a slatternly wife.
I leave my books to my brother Andrew, because he has
been so long a Jungley Wallah that he may learn to read
with them.
I give my silver cup with a sovereign in it to my sister
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