Clay v. Hart

delivered, the Opinion of the Court. Judge Marshall did not sit in this case.

On the first day of October, 1812 — only a few days prior to his death, in the military service of the Northwestern Army of the United States, Nathaniel G. S. Hart, then of Lexington, Kentucky, made the following last will:—

“ I give and bequeath unto my wife Anna Edwards “ Hart and my children, in equal shares, the whole of “ my property, after the payment of my just and lawful “ debts; the property which has accrued to me from my “ wife, and what is yet due her as heiress of Col. N. Gist, “ deceased, being…