Cammann v. Abbe

Edward Payson Abbe executed his last will February 24, 1897. He was then critically ill. His heirs presumptive were a daughter, born in 1857, who had married in 1889, whose husband was living and who had one child (a son, William A. A. Cammann), born in 1895; and a son, born in 1864, who, also, had married in 1889, whose wife, born in 1866 was living, and who had one child (a son, Edward P. Abbe,) born in 1890. By the will he gave $300 to the treasurer of the city of New Bedford; $1,000 each to two nieces; his homestead “and all land and buildings connected therewith which I may not have sold…