Pullar Mortification 1811-1859 Minute Book - Nine Trades of Dundee

I James Pullar Baker in Dundee with consent of Mrs Elizabeth Craufurd for
myself and we both with mutual advice and consent, do hereby (but under the
conditions, reservations and provisions after inserted) give grant and dispone to and
in favour of James Gray, Walter, Newall and Andrew Peddie Junior, all Merchants in
Dundee and James Ogilvie Writer there and to the survivor or survivors of them the
major part alive and accepting at the time being always a quorum as Trustees for the
uses and purposes after mentioned and to the Assignees or disponies of the said
Trustees All and Sundry Lands and heritages save & except the Subjects disponed
by me to the said Elizabeth Crawfurd in liferent and John Pullar, Baker in Dundee
Son of Alexander Pullar my brother in fee by Disposition of date the Sixteenth day of
January Eighteen hundred and One and all Debts and sums of money heritable and
moveable due by heritable Bonds, adjudications, personal Bonds, Bills or other
vouchers of Debt and all and Sundry personal & moveable effects of every kind and
denomination belonging to me or which shall belong to me at the time of by death
dispensing with generality hereof and declaring the same to be as valid and effectual
as if my said whole Estate Heritable & Moveable real and personal were herein
particularly described and also declaring that any particular right & Disposition to my
said Trustees of my said heritable & real Estate hereby generally disponed which I
shall hereafter make at any time in my life or even on deathbed shall be deemed and
taken as part hereof And that any Inventory which shall be hereafter made and
subscribed by me of my said personal Estate shall be (deemed and taken as part
hereof and that any Inventory which shall be hereafter made and subscribed by me of
my said personal Estate shall be ) also taken as part hereof to exclude the necessity
of confirmation And which whole Subjects heritable and moveable above disponed
are conveyed in Trust always for the uses and purposes and under the conditions
and reservations aftermentioned Vizt. That the said Trustees shall upon my death
recover the several Debts and sums of money which shall be due to me to be by
them employed in manner following. That is to say.
In the first place our said Trustees and their foresaids shall satisfy and pay all
the just and lawful Debts that shall be resting and owing by me the said James Pullar
at the time of my death with my funeral Charges and the Expenses of executing this
Trust; and in the next place they shall lend out the neat balance of the said Debts due
to me when recovered on good security heritable or personal and shall pay over to
the said Elizabeth Crawford during her life in case she shall survive me the whole
Interest arising there from with the whole Dividends and Profits arising from my other
personal Subjects and the whole rents of my heritable Property and at the first term of
Whitsunday or Martinmas after the death of both her and me our Trustees shall make
payment to any person or persons whom the said Elizabeth Crawfurd may point out
by a writing under her hand the sum of One thousand Pounds Sterling with Five
hundred Pounds Sterling of liquidate penalty in case of failure and the legal interest of
the said principal sum from the said term of payment yearly & termly thereafter during
the non payment of the same Declaring that in 10 year as the said sum of One
thousand pounds Sterling shall not be disposed of by the said Elizabeth Crawfurd by
a writing under her hand the same shall not be exigble.
And also declaring that whatever property she may be possessed of arising
from the Interest & Rents of the property hereby conveyed (and including her
household furniture, body clothes and paraphernalia) or otherwise and shall fail to
dispose thereof in manner foresaid the same shall be deemed and considered as part
of the Trust Estate hereby conveyed and be at the disposal of our said Trustees.
Which provisions the said Elizabeth Crawfurd accepts in full satisfaction of
every thing she can claim through her husbands death in case she survive him or that
her Executors or nearest in kin can claim through her predecease. And with respect
to my other moveable means & Estate the same shall be managed and reserved by
the said Trustees during the lifetime of the said Elizabeth Crawfurd with her consent
except the household furniture which is to be at her absolute disposal.
And after her death I appoint the said Trustees to sell and dispose of the
same together with my lands and heritages as soon as convenient to be by them
employed along with the rest of my Estate hereby c onveyed for the purposes after
mentioned Vizt:
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