My very infirm and weak state of health, having rendered it
altogether impossible for me to manage my own concerns in any one circumstance,
I have committed them to Mr. Gouvernieur, in whose integrity I have perfect
confidence. This has been extended to the grant lately made me by Congress,
which I have authorized him, to enter and dispose of, in his own name, well
knowing that he will apply it in that way, with more advantage than if entered
in mine — I mention this, as a particular & interesting example, with which
I wish my family, as well as he and myself to be acquainted. The whole will be
under the operation after my departure of my present testament. He will, of
course, pay particular attention to my other debts, as well as to that which I
owe to himself, and I further request Captain James Monroe & William M.
Price, to adjust and settle my account between Mr. Gouvernieur & myself —
this request having been made at his suggestion. Signed sealed published and
declared in the presence of ——— this seventeenth day of June in the year of our
Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one.
james Monroe.
SOURCE: Virgil McClure Harris, Ancient, Curious and Famous
Wills, p. 408-9
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