JOURNAL OF THE COUNTY DONEGAL HISTORICAL SOCIETY fo_llowing are extracts from his will date lOth. November, 1810, probate Of which was granted forth of the Prerogative Court on 4th. August, 1813 to Dame Mary O'Donnell and' Connelly Coan, Esq., widow and brotherin-law, respectively, of the said Testator, and Executors named in the will:- Under the terms of the Marriage Settlement of my eldest son, Hugh O'Donnell, deed. and Alice Hutchinson, which settlement bears date 4th. Oct., 1798, I have power to charge my estates at Newport and Cong with the sum of £15,000 for my children and grandchildren, ana I did so cha~ge my sd. estates with £14.000 with interest at 6 per cent on the 8th. Dec. 1798, to be paid six months after my <leath.... . . I ;bequeath to my son Neal O'Donnell £10; to my son Connell O'Donnell £3,000; to my daughter, Lady Molyneux £10; to my grandson Hugh Henry Browne, eldest son of Dodwell Browne, Esq., of Rahins, £1,999; to my grand-daughter, Mar:, Anne Browne. daught.rr of sd. Dodwell Br. £5.000: to my granddQue-hters Matilda. Louisa, Maria Browne, daughters of Dodwell Br. £1,000 each; sd. r.ums to sd. grand-daughters to be raised out of my said lands of Newport and Cong, and the int~rest thereof to be applied to thei!" education till they reach twenty-one or marriage. "On the intermarriage 8th. Nov. 1793, of my son James Moore O'Donnell with Debora Camac of Greenmount. Co. Louth, I conveyed to Trustees named in sd. Marriage Settlement the lands of Kilmactiege in Co. Sligo 'ind the lands of Terman in Erris held by lease by me under the See of Killala. The sd. James 1\11. O'Donnell died without issue and his widow Deborah, is entitled under sd. Mar. Setnt. to £48() out of sd. lands, which lds. I hereby devise to my son Connel O'Donnell. "Under the terms of my Mar. Setment. dated 1766 tht Leases I held were conveyed to 270. Trustees in trust to rise the sum of £1,600 for my childrer~ as ~ should appoint. I now devi-se sC.. sum of £1,600 to Neal O'Donnell Browne and Hugh Henry Browne, my grand-sons, share and share alike, and if either die before the age of twenty-one, the whole to the survivor. To my grand-daughter, Alice O'Donnell £100, and on Lady O'Donnell's death, the picture of he:-father, Hugh O'Donnell. To Dodwell Browne, E s q. £100 as a small token of my regard for him. To my beloved daughter-inlaw, Deborah O'Donnell £50 tu .pu~chase a ring. To my niece Mary O'Donnell, daughter Of John O'Donnell of Newport Pratt. £500. To Nurse Kelly. .wife of Danie1 K~lly of Newport Pratt, one anruity of £20. To Mrs. O'Donnell. wife of my brother Francis O'Donnell, one annuity of £50. To Connolly Coan, now of the Citv of Bath £300. Tn Connolly Coan. his son, £100. 'T'o John Coan, his grand-son, £.100. To my wife. Lady O'D. my carriages, horses. cows. plate. furnitiire and direct that all those !ee-gciPs. except the sums which C'1mprise the £14.000 which I have charged on my estate. shall he oavaiole out of such personal estate ::is ·I shall die _possessed of or entitled to. exce.pt my carri8 ge. horses. Plate. and furnitnre. which I hereby exempt and discharge therefrom-I make my de::irly beloved wife, Lady O'Donnell. residuary legatee and she so'.e executrix." A Codicil was later added making Connolly Coan ioint Executor with Lady O'Donnellanv difference o{ instruction or interpretation hein~ left to the decisio"l of the latter. He also bequeatlled to Lady .0'Donne1l his Ri.E!'ht. Title and Interest in his freehold lease of part of the lan.ds of KnockeerRgh togethr-r with the same in the house and
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