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                    Daniel B. Fitts

       State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantation
                    Court of Probate of the City of Newport.

       Clerks Office, Newport, January the 8" AD 1906.

               I, Duncan U. Hazzard, Clerk of the Court of
       Probate of the City of Newport, duly elected and sworn
       hereby certify that Jeremiah P. Mahoney is the sole Judge
       of said Court, duly elected, sworn and qualified, and that the
       signature to the certificate hereon is the proper handwriting
       of said Jeremiah P. Mahoney, and that the attestation
       of said Jeremiah P. Mahoney is in due form,
           (  )           In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set
         ( Seal )         my hand and the Seal of said Court,
           (  )           the day and year first above written.
                                            Duncan A. Hazzard
                                                 Probate Clerk

                     = Will =

        To all people to whom these presents shall come;
               Be it Known that I, Daniel B. Fitts was residing
        in the City and County of Newport, in the State of Rhode
        Island, do hereby make, ordain and declare my Last
        Will and Testament to be as follows: to wit:-
           First: I order my debts if any and my funeral
        expenses, to be paid from my estate: and I direct that
        my remains shall be interred beside those of my late
        beloved wife in the island Cemetary in Newport, and
        and that memorial stones be erected to mark my
        grave similar to those erected at the grave of my
        said Wife.
        Secondly:  I give and bequeath to my brother
        Abraham Fitts, should he survive me, the sum of
        two Thousand Dollars.
        Thirdly:  I give and bequeath to my brother John
        M. Fitts, should he survive me the sum of one thousand
        dollars.
        Fourthly:  To my present beloved wife, sister of my
        said late wife, Susan E. Fitts, I give and bequeath
        the sum of One Thousand Dollars.

Transcribed by Karen Kirkman 4 June 2017
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