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 honor, imposed on me (as I thought) a peculiar necessity not to decline the call. The ability to be in future useful, whether in resisting mischief or effecting good, in those crises of our public affairs, which seem likely to happen, would probably be inseparable from a conformity with public prejudice in this particular. A. H.

In the name of GOD, Amen. I, ALEXANDER HAMILTON, of the City of New York, Counsellor-at-Law, do make this my Last Will and Testament, as follows:

First. I appoint John B. Church, Nicholas Fish and Nathaniel Pendleton of the city aforesaid, Esquires, to be Executors and Trustees of this my will, and I devise to them, their heirs and assigns, as joint tenants and not as tenants in common, all my estate real and personal whatsoever, and wheresoever, upon trust at their discretion, to sell