Nashua Feb 26 1866Dear Abbie
When I am gone I want you to see that Emma has the following articles some of them she has bought with her own hard earnings the others, I [...] give her as a reward for her kindness and care of me the parlor carpet is her own and all that is in her Chamber bedstead and bed and all that is on it table and beaurough [sic] washstand and looking Glass and Rocking Chairs and Carpet the best set of Silver tea spoons and salt and sugar spoons and desert spoon and butter knife I give her and you together my pink China set and Mittie and Emma my Globe glass sauce dishes the Silver forks and knives are Emmas she baught them [with] very little of my help and they are her own one other bed and bedstead I give her the Pictures in the parlor and sitting [room] are hers and the little stove in the dining room my Brass kittle six mulberry cups and saucers six breakfast plates and six sauce plates
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my large kerosene lamp six tumblers my glass sauce and butter plates the table cover in the Sitting room my snow drop table clothes and [...] bowls and napkins the parlor window kertains [sic] and the back and cushion of the parlor rocking chair and my largest pair of silver table spoons and any other article she may want
Mehitable H Cogswell
I also give her the one hundred dollar United States note that I hold
[Mehitabel is Emma's mother. Abbie is Emma's sister. Mittie and Emma are Abbie's daughters. It appeared that this was a will, but if it was, it was a bit premature. Mehitabel didn't die until 1883.]