Notes for William Howe Smith and Sally Miles

1822 "Smith, William Howe. City of St. John, St. John Co, Surgeon. Will dated 6 October 1822, proved 30 October 1822. Wife Sally all household furniture. Balance of estate to be equally divided among my children, Elijah Miles, William Odber, Fanny Cornwell, Edward Allison, and George Rufus. 'And as my wife is now pregnant, I wish the child she may be delivered of, should it survive, to share equally with my other Children.' Wife Sally Smith, friend Treadway T.O. Miles, and son Elijah Miles Smith executors. Witnesses: John Boyd, M.D., Henry Gilbert, and George Ball. Codicil dated 6 October 1822 empowers executors to sell real and personal property and divide the proceeds among the children at the end of ten years. Same Witnesses." [R. Wallace Hale, Early New Brunswick Probate Records, 1785-1835, (Westminster, Maryland: Heritage Books, 2007), p. 421]