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 516 BETSY PATTERSON. me more anxiety and trouble than all my other children put together, and her folly and misconduct have occasioned me a train of expense that first and last has cost roe much money. Under such circumstances it would not be reasonable, just, or proper that she should inherit and participate in an equal proportion with my other children in an equal division of my estate ; considering, however, the weakness of human nature, and that she is still my daughter, -it is my will and pleasure to provide for her as follows, viz. : I give and devise to my said daughter Betsy, first, the house and lot on the east side of South Street, where she was born, and which is now occupied by Mr. Duncan, the shoemaker. Secondly, the houses and lots on the corner of Market Street bridge, now occupied by Mr. Tulley, the chairmaker, and Mr. Priestly, the cabinet- maker. Thirdly, the three new adjoining brick houses, and the one on the corner of Market and Frederick Streets. Fourthly, two new brick houses and lots on Gay Street, near Griffith's bridge ; for and during the term of the natural life of my said daughter Betsy ; and after her death I give, devise and bequeath the same to my grandson, Jerome Napoleon Bonaparte." She survived her father many years, a well-known figure in Baltimore, a brisk old lady with a red umbrella and a black velvet bonnet, with an income of a hundred thousand dollars a year, but living in a boarding-house on two thousand. A lady asked her what religion she pre- ferred. She said that if she adopted any religion it would be the Roman Catholic, because " that was a religion of kings — a royal religion." Her niece said : " You would not give up Presbyterianism ? " To which she replied : " The only reason I w T ould not is, that I should not like to give up the stool my ancestors had sat upon." She died in April, 1879, and left a million and a half