Robert's first wife was Margaret Greer. Their known children were James, William, Nathaniel, Matilda, John, Jane, George and Robert. Robert married for his second wife, Mary Scott, daughter of William Scott and Elizabeth Taggart. Their children were Elizabeth Taggart Morton, Charles Scott Morton and Catherine Scott Morton.
Last Will and Testament of ROBERT MORTON
This is the last will and testament of me, ROBERT MORTON, of BROOKVILLE, in the County of Antrim, Merchant.
I bequeath to my wife MARY MORTON my dwelling house of Brookville aforesaid together with all pictures, prints, books, plate, linen, china, household goods and furniture which shall at my death be in my said dwelling house subject to the yearly rent thereof and to the debts (if any) that may be then against it and I also bequeath to my said wife the small piece of land on the opposite side of the county road to my said dwelling house. I also bequeath to my said wife the sum of six hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son JAMES MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son WILLIAM MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son NATHANIEL MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter MATILDA, wife of JAMES MCVICKER, the sum of one hundred pounds for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge for the same.
I bequeath to my son JOHN MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my son ROBERT MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter JANE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH TAGGART MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son CHARLES S. MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter CATHERINE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath unto JOHN RAPHEAL of Galgorm in the county of Antrim, merchant, his executors and administrators the sum of one thousand pounds upon trust that the said JOHN RAPHEAL his executors or administrations shall invest said sum in mortgage of freehold or leasehold lands and heredilaments (?) or in any of the public stocks or funds or upon government or real securities or in or upon the shares of stock or securities of any company incorporated by act of parliament with power to vary the said stocks funds shares and securities at his or their discretion and shall pay the interest dividends and annual income thereof to my said daughter MATILDA during her natural life for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipts alone shall be sufficient discharges and after her decease shall hold the said sum and the interest dividends and annual income thereof in trust for all of any such one or more of the children of my said daughter MATILDA and in such manner and form in every respect as my said daughter MATILDA shall by any deed or by her will or codicil appoint and in default of any such appointment of and so far as no such appointment shall extend instruct, for all the children or any the child of my said daughter MATILDA who being sons or a son shall attain the age of twenty-ones or being daughters or a daughter shall attain the age of or marry and if more than one in equal shares and in case there shall be no such issue in trust for all my other said children in equal shares. And I hereby declare that in case any of my said children shall not be of age at my death that my executors shall invest the legacies hereby bequeathed to them in like manner as I have hereby directed the said sum of one thousand pounds to be invested and shall apply the interest dividend and annual income thereof for or toward their maintenance and education and I further declare that my executors if it shall be deemed necessary may raise any part or parts of the expectant preumptive (?) or vested fortune of any child not exceeding in the whole for any such child one half of such fortune and apply the same for his or her advancement and benefit.
I direct and authorise my executors to let the premises – known as the Ballymena Steam Mills together with the houses called the Mill Tenement to my sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER for the term of seven years after my death if they shall so long remain in partnership subject to the yearly rent of two hundred and sixty five pounds but it is my express wish that in case my said sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER shall not remain in partnership or shall become unfortunate in their business that in such case they shall no longer hold said premises but that my executors shall either let or sell the same as to them shall seem most expedient.
I bequeath unto my son NATHANIEL MORTON my houses and premises in Church Street Ballymena until the youngest of my children shall attain the age of twenty one years subject to the yearly rent of seventy five pounds and it is my express wish and desire that my said son NATHANIEL shall enter into partnership with ROBERT SIMPSON and I direct that my executors shall invest the said rents of two hundred and sixty pounds and seventy five pounds after payment of the chief rents of said premises respectively every year in the public stocks or funds or in or upon such other securities as they shall think expedient and apply the interest dividends and annual income thereof for the use and benefit or towards the maintenance and education of my said children, JANE MORTON, ROBERT MORTON, JOHN MORTON, ELIZABETH MORTON, CHARLES MORTON AND CATHERINE MORTON and when the youngest of my aforesaid children shall attain the age of twenty one years, I direct and authorise my executors to sell said Ballymena Steam Mills if same are not previously sold in such manner as they shall think best and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said children, JANE, ROBERT, JOHN, ELIZABETH, CHARLES and CATHERINE in equal shares and I also direct my said executors to sell the said Church Street premises on the youngest of my said children attaining the age of twenty one years and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said wife and all my said children in equal shares.
I direct that the value of my share or proportion in the Capital Stock in the trade or business carried on in the Ballymena Steam Mills and also in the business of Morton and Simpson as grocers and funeral dealers shall be ascertained as soon as possible after my death and that same shall be paid to my executors in four yearly installments at the end of which the entire amount of the value of my said shares or proportions in the capital stock in said respective trades shall be paid my executors to taking such securities or security for the payment thereof from my respective partners as they shall be advised or deem necessary but if my executors shall so think (fe?) that it shall be necessary for payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will. I hereby authorise and empower them to require payment immediately upon such value of my share or proportion in the capital stock of said respective trades being respectively ascertained or at such other time within the said term of four years as they may think expedient and I direct that interest at the rate of five per cent per annum shall be ____ on whatever shall remain in the hands of my said partners until paid and I direct that the value of said shares shall be applied in or towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will (this written in between two sentences - together with all _____ and farm stock that may be th___ in or upon my ___ farms) direct that my farms in Brocklemunt and Town Parks and my shares in the Ballymena and Harryville Gas Company and in the ship “Pacific” shall be sold as soon after my death as possible and the proceeds thereof applied towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will.
And I bequeath all the residue of my property of what nature or kind soever to my said wife and all my said children in equal shares. I appoint my said wife and the said JOHN RAPHAEL guardians of my infant children during the minority and I appoint the said JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE of Tullygarley, executors of this my will and authorise the acting executors or executor for the time being of this my will to satisfy any debts claimed to be owing by me or my estate and any liabilities to which for my estate may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think expedient and t accept any composition or security for any debt and to allow such time for payments (either?) with or without taking security as to them or him shall seem fit and also to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my estate and generally to act in __________ thereto as they or he shall think expedient without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three – ROBT MORTON – signed sealed published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnessing hereto the words “together with all crops and farm stock that may be their in or upon my said farms” being first interlined WILLIAM ORR ____ Ballymena ROBERT M ORR Ballymena
Administration of the goods and so forth (with the last will and testament annexed) of ROBERT MORTON late of Ballymena in the county of Antrim, Merchant, deceased, was granted by Her Majesty's Court of Probate in Ireland, in the District Registry of Belfast to MARY MORTON alias SCOTT, Widow, the lawful Widow and relict of said testator, and JAMES MORTON, Merchant, a natural and lawful child and one of the ________________ of _____ of said testator both of Ballymena aforesaid, two of the Residuary Legatees named in said will. They being first swore. JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE hs executors who have duly ___________ the burden of said will and their rights to Probate thereof.
Rights to Probate thereof
Extracted (?) by _____________
Ballymena
Dated 9th September 1863
JM Higginson, Dist. A___
Last Will and Testament of ROBERT MORTON
This is the last will and testament of me, ROBERT MORTON, of BROOKVILLE, in the County of Antrim, Merchant.
I bequeath to my wife MARY MORTON my dwelling house of Brookville aforesaid together with all pictures, prints, books, plate, linen, china, household goods and furniture which shall at my death be in my said dwelling house subject to the yearly rent thereof and to the debts (if any) that may be then against it and I also bequeath to my said wife the small piece of land on the opposite side of the county road to my said dwelling house. I also bequeath to my said wife the sum of six hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son JAMES MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son WILLIAM MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son NATHANIEL MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter MATILDA, wife of JAMES MCVICKER, the sum of one hundred pounds for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge for the same.
I bequeath to my son JOHN MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my son ROBERT MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter JANE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH TAGGART MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son CHARLES S. MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter CATHERINE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath unto JOHN RAPHEAL of Galgorm in the county of Antrim, merchant, his executors and administrators the sum of one thousand pounds upon trust that the said JOHN RAPHEAL his executors or administrations shall invest said sum in mortgage of freehold or leasehold lands and heredilaments (?) or in any of the public stocks or funds or upon government or real securities or in or upon the shares of stock or securities of any company incorporated by act of parliament with power to vary the said stocks funds shares and securities at his or their discretion and shall pay the interest dividends and annual income thereof to my said daughter MATILDA during her natural life for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipts alone shall be sufficient discharges and after her decease shall hold the said sum and the interest dividends and annual income thereof in trust for all of any such one or more of the children of my said daughter MATILDA and in such manner and form in every respect as my said daughter MATILDA shall by any deed or by her will or codicil appoint and in default of any such appointment of and so far as no such appointment shall extend instruct, for all the children or any the child of my said daughter MATILDA who being sons or a son shall attain the age of twenty-ones or being daughters or a daughter shall attain the age of or marry and if more than one in equal shares and in case there shall be no such issue in trust for all my other said children in equal shares. And I hereby declare that in case any of my said children shall not be of age at my death that my executors shall invest the legacies hereby bequeathed to them in like manner as I have hereby directed the said sum of one thousand pounds to be invested and shall apply the interest dividend and annual income thereof for or toward their maintenance and education and I further declare that my executors if it shall be deemed necessary may raise any part or parts of the expectant preumptive (?) or vested fortune of any child not exceeding in the whole for any such child one half of such fortune and apply the same for his or her advancement and benefit.
I direct and authorise my executors to let the premises – known as the Ballymena Steam Mills together with the houses called the Mill Tenement to my sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER for the term of seven years after my death if they shall so long remain in partnership subject to the yearly rent of two hundred and sixty five pounds but it is my express wish that in case my said sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER shall not remain in partnership or shall become unfortunate in their business that in such case they shall no longer hold said premises but that my executors shall either let or sell the same as to them shall seem most expedient.
I bequeath unto my son NATHANIEL MORTON my houses and premises in Church Street Ballymena until the youngest of my children shall attain the age of twenty one years subject to the yearly rent of seventy five pounds and it is my express wish and desire that my said son NATHANIEL shall enter into partnership with ROBERT SIMPSON and I direct that my executors shall invest the said rents of two hundred and sixty pounds and seventy five pounds after payment of the chief rents of said premises respectively every year in the public stocks or funds or in or upon such other securities as they shall think expedient and apply the interest dividends and annual income thereof for the use and benefit or towards the maintenance and education of my said children, JANE MORTON, ROBERT MORTON, JOHN MORTON, ELIZABETH MORTON, CHARLES MORTON AND CATHERINE MORTON and when the youngest of my aforesaid children shall attain the age of twenty one years, I direct and authorise my executors to sell said Ballymena Steam Mills if same are not previously sold in such manner as they shall think best and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said children, JANE, ROBERT, JOHN, ELIZABETH, CHARLES and CATHERINE in equal shares and I also direct my said executors to sell the said Church Street premises on the youngest of my said children attaining the age of twenty one years and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said wife and all my said children in equal shares.
I direct that the value of my share or proportion in the Capital Stock in the trade or business carried on in the Ballymena Steam Mills and also in the business of Morton and Simpson as grocers and funeral dealers shall be ascertained as soon as possible after my death and that same shall be paid to my executors in four yearly installments at the end of which the entire amount of the value of my said shares or proportions in the capital stock in said respective trades shall be paid my executors to taking such securities or security for the payment thereof from my respective partners as they shall be advised or deem necessary but if my executors shall so think (fe?) that it shall be necessary for payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will. I hereby authorise and empower them to require payment immediately upon such value of my share or proportion in the capital stock of said respective trades being respectively ascertained or at such other time within the said term of four years as they may think expedient and I direct that interest at the rate of five per cent per annum shall be ____ on whatever shall remain in the hands of my said partners until paid and I direct that the value of said shares shall be applied in or towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will (this written in between two sentences - together with all _____ and farm stock that may be th___ in or upon my ___ farms) direct that my farms in Brocklemunt and Town Parks and my shares in the Ballymena and Harryville Gas Company and in the ship “Pacific” shall be sold as soon after my death as possible and the proceeds thereof applied towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will.
And I bequeath all the residue of my property of what nature or kind soever to my said wife and all my said children in equal shares. I appoint my said wife and the said JOHN RAPHAEL guardians of my infant children during the minority and I appoint the said JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE of Tullygarley, executors of this my will and authorise the acting executors or executor for the time being of this my will to satisfy any debts claimed to be owing by me or my estate and any liabilities to which for my estate may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think expedient and t accept any composition or security for any debt and to allow such time for payments (either?) with or without taking security as to them or him shall seem fit and also to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my estate and generally to act in __________ thereto as they or he shall think expedient without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three – ROBT MORTON – signed sealed published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnessing hereto the words “together with all crops and farm stock that may be their in or upon my said farms” being first interlined WILLIAM ORR ____ Ballymena ROBERT M ORR Ballymena
Administration of the goods and so forth (with the last will and testament annexed) of ROBERT MORTON late of Ballymena in the county of Antrim, Merchant, deceased, was granted by Her Majesty's Court of Probate in Ireland, in the District Registry of Belfast to MARY MORTON alias SCOTT, Widow, the lawful Widow and relict of said testator, and JAMES MORTON, Merchant, a natural and lawful child and one of the ________________ of _____ of said testator both of Ballymena aforesaid, two of the Residuary Legatees named in said will. They being first swore. JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE hs executors who have duly ___________ the burden of said will and their rights to Probate thereof.
Rights to Probate thereof
Extracted (?) by _____________
Ballymena
Dated 9th September 1863
JM Higginson, Dist. A___
Robert's first wife was Margaret Greer. Their known children were James, William, Nathaniel, Matilda, John, Jane, George and Robert. Robert married for his second wife, Mary Scott, daughter of William Scott and Elizabeth Taggart. Their children were Elizabeth Taggart Morton, Charles Scott Morton and Catherine Scott Morton.
Last Will and Testament of ROBERT MORTON
This is the last will and testament of me, ROBERT MORTON, of BROOKVILLE, in the County of Antrim, Merchant.
I bequeath to my wife MARY MORTON my dwelling house of Brookville aforesaid together with all pictures, prints, books, plate, linen, china, household goods and furniture which shall at my death be in my said dwelling house subject to the yearly rent thereof and to the debts (if any) that may be then against it and I also bequeath to my said wife the small piece of land on the opposite side of the county road to my said dwelling house. I also bequeath to my said wife the sum of six hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son JAMES MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son WILLIAM MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son NATHANIEL MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter MATILDA, wife of JAMES MCVICKER, the sum of one hundred pounds for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge for the same.
I bequeath to my son JOHN MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my son ROBERT MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter JANE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH TAGGART MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son CHARLES S. MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter CATHERINE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath unto JOHN RAPHEAL of Galgorm in the county of Antrim, merchant, his executors and administrators the sum of one thousand pounds upon trust that the said JOHN RAPHEAL his executors or administrations shall invest said sum in mortgage of freehold or leasehold lands and heredilaments (?) or in any of the public stocks or funds or upon government or real securities or in or upon the shares of stock or securities of any company incorporated by act of parliament with power to vary the said stocks funds shares and securities at his or their discretion and shall pay the interest dividends and annual income thereof to my said daughter MATILDA during her natural life for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipts alone shall be sufficient discharges and after her decease shall hold the said sum and the interest dividends and annual income thereof in trust for all of any such one or more of the children of my said daughter MATILDA and in such manner and form in every respect as my said daughter MATILDA shall by any deed or by her will or codicil appoint and in default of any such appointment of and so far as no such appointment shall extend instruct, for all the children or any the child of my said daughter MATILDA who being sons or a son shall attain the age of twenty-ones or being daughters or a daughter shall attain the age of or marry and if more than one in equal shares and in case there shall be no such issue in trust for all my other said children in equal shares. And I hereby declare that in case any of my said children shall not be of age at my death that my executors shall invest the legacies hereby bequeathed to them in like manner as I have hereby directed the said sum of one thousand pounds to be invested and shall apply the interest dividend and annual income thereof for or toward their maintenance and education and I further declare that my executors if it shall be deemed necessary may raise any part or parts of the expectant preumptive (?) or vested fortune of any child not exceeding in the whole for any such child one half of such fortune and apply the same for his or her advancement and benefit.
I direct and authorise my executors to let the premises – known as the Ballymena Steam Mills together with the houses called the Mill Tenement to my sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER for the term of seven years after my death if they shall so long remain in partnership subject to the yearly rent of two hundred and sixty five pounds but it is my express wish that in case my said sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER shall not remain in partnership or shall become unfortunate in their business that in such case they shall no longer hold said premises but that my executors shall either let or sell the same as to them shall seem most expedient.
I bequeath unto my son NATHANIEL MORTON my houses and premises in Church Street Ballymena until the youngest of my children shall attain the age of twenty one years subject to the yearly rent of seventy five pounds and it is my express wish and desire that my said son NATHANIEL shall enter into partnership with ROBERT SIMPSON and I direct that my executors shall invest the said rents of two hundred and sixty pounds and seventy five pounds after payment of the chief rents of said premises respectively every year in the public stocks or funds or in or upon such other securities as they shall think expedient and apply the interest dividends and annual income thereof for the use and benefit or towards the maintenance and education of my said children, JANE MORTON, ROBERT MORTON, JOHN MORTON, ELIZABETH MORTON, CHARLES MORTON AND CATHERINE MORTON and when the youngest of my aforesaid children shall attain the age of twenty one years, I direct and authorise my executors to sell said Ballymena Steam Mills if same are not previously sold in such manner as they shall think best and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said children, JANE, ROBERT, JOHN, ELIZABETH, CHARLES and CATHERINE in equal shares and I also direct my said executors to sell the said Church Street premises on the youngest of my said children attaining the age of twenty one years and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said wife and all my said children in equal shares.
I direct that the value of my share or proportion in the Capital Stock in the trade or business carried on in the Ballymena Steam Mills and also in the business of Morton and Simpson as grocers and funeral dealers shall be ascertained as soon as possible after my death and that same shall be paid to my executors in four yearly installments at the end of which the entire amount of the value of my said shares or proportions in the capital stock in said respective trades shall be paid my executors to taking such securities or security for the payment thereof from my respective partners as they shall be advised or deem necessary but if my executors shall so think (fe?) that it shall be necessary for payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will. I hereby authorise and empower them to require payment immediately upon such value of my share or proportion in the capital stock of said respective trades being respectively ascertained or at such other time within the said term of four years as they may think expedient and I direct that interest at the rate of five per cent per annum shall be ____ on whatever shall remain in the hands of my said partners until paid and I direct that the value of said shares shall be applied in or towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will (this written in between two sentences - together with all _____ and farm stock that may be th___ in or upon my ___ farms) direct that my farms in Brocklemunt and Town Parks and my shares in the Ballymena and Harryville Gas Company and in the ship “Pacific” shall be sold as soon after my death as possible and the proceeds thereof applied towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will.
And I bequeath all the residue of my property of what nature or kind soever to my said wife and all my said children in equal shares. I appoint my said wife and the said JOHN RAPHAEL guardians of my infant children during the minority and I appoint the said JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE of Tullygarley, executors of this my will and authorise the acting executors or executor for the time being of this my will to satisfy any debts claimed to be owing by me or my estate and any liabilities to which for my estate may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think expedient and t accept any composition or security for any debt and to allow such time for payments (either?) with or without taking security as to them or him shall seem fit and also to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my estate and generally to act in __________ thereto as they or he shall think expedient without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three – ROBT MORTON – signed sealed published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnessing hereto the words “together with all crops and farm stock that may be their in or upon my said farms” being first interlined WILLIAM ORR ____ Ballymena ROBERT M ORR Ballymena
Administration of the goods and so forth (with the last will and testament annexed) of ROBERT MORTON late of Ballymena in the county of Antrim, Merchant, deceased, was granted by Her Majesty's Court of Probate in Ireland, in the District Registry of Belfast to MARY MORTON alias SCOTT, Widow, the lawful Widow and relict of said testator, and JAMES MORTON, Merchant, a natural and lawful child and one of the ________________ of _____ of said testator both of Ballymena aforesaid, two of the Residuary Legatees named in said will. They being first swore. JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE hs executors who have duly ___________ the burden of said will and their rights to Probate thereof.
Rights to Probate thereof
Extracted (?) by _____________
Ballymena
Dated 9th September 1863
JM Higginson, Dist. A___
Last Will and Testament of ROBERT MORTON
This is the last will and testament of me, ROBERT MORTON, of BROOKVILLE, in the County of Antrim, Merchant.
I bequeath to my wife MARY MORTON my dwelling house of Brookville aforesaid together with all pictures, prints, books, plate, linen, china, household goods and furniture which shall at my death be in my said dwelling house subject to the yearly rent thereof and to the debts (if any) that may be then against it and I also bequeath to my said wife the small piece of land on the opposite side of the county road to my said dwelling house. I also bequeath to my said wife the sum of six hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son JAMES MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son WILLIAM MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son NATHANIEL MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter MATILDA, wife of JAMES MCVICKER, the sum of one hundred pounds for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipt alone shall be a sufficient discharge for the same.
I bequeath to my son JOHN MORTON the sum of one thousand pounds.
I bequeath to my son ROBERT MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter JANE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter ELIZABETH TAGGART MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my son CHARLES S. MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath to my daughter CATHERINE MORTON the sum of five hundred pounds.
I bequeath unto JOHN RAPHEAL of Galgorm in the county of Antrim, merchant, his executors and administrators the sum of one thousand pounds upon trust that the said JOHN RAPHEAL his executors or administrations shall invest said sum in mortgage of freehold or leasehold lands and heredilaments (?) or in any of the public stocks or funds or upon government or real securities or in or upon the shares of stock or securities of any company incorporated by act of parliament with power to vary the said stocks funds shares and securities at his or their discretion and shall pay the interest dividends and annual income thereof to my said daughter MATILDA during her natural life for her separate use independently of her present or any future husband so that her receipts alone shall be sufficient discharges and after her decease shall hold the said sum and the interest dividends and annual income thereof in trust for all of any such one or more of the children of my said daughter MATILDA and in such manner and form in every respect as my said daughter MATILDA shall by any deed or by her will or codicil appoint and in default of any such appointment of and so far as no such appointment shall extend instruct, for all the children or any the child of my said daughter MATILDA who being sons or a son shall attain the age of twenty-ones or being daughters or a daughter shall attain the age of or marry and if more than one in equal shares and in case there shall be no such issue in trust for all my other said children in equal shares. And I hereby declare that in case any of my said children shall not be of age at my death that my executors shall invest the legacies hereby bequeathed to them in like manner as I have hereby directed the said sum of one thousand pounds to be invested and shall apply the interest dividend and annual income thereof for or toward their maintenance and education and I further declare that my executors if it shall be deemed necessary may raise any part or parts of the expectant preumptive (?) or vested fortune of any child not exceeding in the whole for any such child one half of such fortune and apply the same for his or her advancement and benefit.
I direct and authorise my executors to let the premises – known as the Ballymena Steam Mills together with the houses called the Mill Tenement to my sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER for the term of seven years after my death if they shall so long remain in partnership subject to the yearly rent of two hundred and sixty five pounds but it is my express wish that in case my said sons JAMES and WILLIAM and WILLIAM PALMER shall not remain in partnership or shall become unfortunate in their business that in such case they shall no longer hold said premises but that my executors shall either let or sell the same as to them shall seem most expedient.
I bequeath unto my son NATHANIEL MORTON my houses and premises in Church Street Ballymena until the youngest of my children shall attain the age of twenty one years subject to the yearly rent of seventy five pounds and it is my express wish and desire that my said son NATHANIEL shall enter into partnership with ROBERT SIMPSON and I direct that my executors shall invest the said rents of two hundred and sixty pounds and seventy five pounds after payment of the chief rents of said premises respectively every year in the public stocks or funds or in or upon such other securities as they shall think expedient and apply the interest dividends and annual income thereof for the use and benefit or towards the maintenance and education of my said children, JANE MORTON, ROBERT MORTON, JOHN MORTON, ELIZABETH MORTON, CHARLES MORTON AND CATHERINE MORTON and when the youngest of my aforesaid children shall attain the age of twenty one years, I direct and authorise my executors to sell said Ballymena Steam Mills if same are not previously sold in such manner as they shall think best and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said children, JANE, ROBERT, JOHN, ELIZABETH, CHARLES and CATHERINE in equal shares and I also direct my said executors to sell the said Church Street premises on the youngest of my said children attaining the age of twenty one years and to divide the proceeds arising therefrom among my said wife and all my said children in equal shares.
I direct that the value of my share or proportion in the Capital Stock in the trade or business carried on in the Ballymena Steam Mills and also in the business of Morton and Simpson as grocers and funeral dealers shall be ascertained as soon as possible after my death and that same shall be paid to my executors in four yearly installments at the end of which the entire amount of the value of my said shares or proportions in the capital stock in said respective trades shall be paid my executors to taking such securities or security for the payment thereof from my respective partners as they shall be advised or deem necessary but if my executors shall so think (fe?) that it shall be necessary for payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will. I hereby authorise and empower them to require payment immediately upon such value of my share or proportion in the capital stock of said respective trades being respectively ascertained or at such other time within the said term of four years as they may think expedient and I direct that interest at the rate of five per cent per annum shall be ____ on whatever shall remain in the hands of my said partners until paid and I direct that the value of said shares shall be applied in or towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will (this written in between two sentences - together with all _____ and farm stock that may be th___ in or upon my ___ farms) direct that my farms in Brocklemunt and Town Parks and my shares in the Ballymena and Harryville Gas Company and in the ship “Pacific” shall be sold as soon after my death as possible and the proceeds thereof applied towards payment of the legacies bequeathed by this my will.
And I bequeath all the residue of my property of what nature or kind soever to my said wife and all my said children in equal shares. I appoint my said wife and the said JOHN RAPHAEL guardians of my infant children during the minority and I appoint the said JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE of Tullygarley, executors of this my will and authorise the acting executors or executor for the time being of this my will to satisfy any debts claimed to be owing by me or my estate and any liabilities to which for my estate may be alleged to be subject upon any evidence they or he shall think expedient and t accept any composition or security for any debt and to allow such time for payments (either?) with or without taking security as to them or him shall seem fit and also to compromise or submit to arbitration and settle all accounts and matters belonging or relating to my estate and generally to act in __________ thereto as they or he shall think expedient without being responsible for any loss occasioned thereby.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this fourteenth day of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty three – ROBT MORTON – signed sealed published and declared by the said testator as and for his last will and testament in presence of us both present at the same time who in his presence and in the presence of each other have subscribed our names as witnessing hereto the words “together with all crops and farm stock that may be their in or upon my said farms” being first interlined WILLIAM ORR ____ Ballymena ROBERT M ORR Ballymena
Administration of the goods and so forth (with the last will and testament annexed) of ROBERT MORTON late of Ballymena in the county of Antrim, Merchant, deceased, was granted by Her Majesty's Court of Probate in Ireland, in the District Registry of Belfast to MARY MORTON alias SCOTT, Widow, the lawful Widow and relict of said testator, and JAMES MORTON, Merchant, a natural and lawful child and one of the ________________ of _____ of said testator both of Ballymena aforesaid, two of the Residuary Legatees named in said will. They being first swore. JOHN RAPHAEL and ROBERT MCKANE hs executors who have duly ___________ the burden of said will and their rights to Probate thereof.
Rights to Probate thereof
Extracted (?) by _____________
Ballymena
Dated 9th September 1863
JM Higginson, Dist. A___
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