“I give all the residue of my estate, real and personal, to accompany the devise of ‘Sunnyside’ to the same persons, for the like interests, and subject to the like contingencies and power.
“Third. I authorize my executors to make sale of, or otherwise convert into money or productive funds, all other lands and tenements I may own, wheresoever situated.
“Last. I appoint my brother, Ebenezer Irving, and my nephew Pierre M. Irving, executors of this my will. I revoke all other and former wills.”
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“Washington Irving.”
Will of Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson died June 8, 1845. Extracts from his will, together with a synopsis of its interesting provisions, are here given:
“And whereas since executing my will of the 30th of September, 1833, my estate has become greatly involved by my liabilities for the debts of my well beloved and adopted son Andrew Jackson Jnr., which makes it necessary to alter the same.”
“First. I bequeath my body to the dust whence it came, and my soul to God who gave it: hoping for a happy immortality through the atoning merits of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the World.”
He desires that his body be buried by the side of his wife in the garden at the Hermitage, in the vault prepared in the garden.