*** Source: Early California Wills, California: California Society, D.A.R., 1952, 952 pgs. *** ---page 4-53--- 53 WILLS 1855 1859--1863 PROBATE COURT LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF R.B. BUCHANAN Deceased Together with Testimony and Certificate of Property. Filed July 2d A.D. 1855 W. W. Dobbins, Clerk Probate Court, Yuba County Pr. M.D. Dobbins, Dept'y. IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN; I, Robert B. Buchanan of the City of Marysville Yuba County, State of California, of the age of thirty-three years, and being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this, my last will and testament in manner following that is to say: First: - I give and bequeath to my wife, Manerva Buchanan the Sum of Ten Thousand Dollars, to my Father, Henry Buchanan the Sum of Two Thousand Dollars, and to my niece, Agnes Ellen Wilts, the sum of One Thousand Dollars; which said several legacies or sums of money I direct and order to be paid to the said respective legatees, within one year after my decease. Second,--I give and bequeath to my wife Manerva Buchanan all the rest, residue and remainder of my personal estate, good and chattles, of what nature or kind soever, after the payment of all my just debts. Third,--I give, devise and bequeath the one third of all my Real Estate of what nature or kind soever to my wife, Manerva Buchanan, in lieu of dower or right of dower in said estate. Fourth, - I give, bequeath and devise all of the balance of my real estate of what nature or kind soever to Manerva Buchanan, Executrix and Schuyler C. Tompkins, executor of this my last will and testament hereinafter nominated and appointed, in trust for the payment of the legacies and charges upon the said estate herein after specified, to be held and possessed by them for the ---end---