Excerpt from The Information in the Matter of the Price Charity: Filed in the Supreme Judicial Court

And the said Attorney General, at and by the relation aforesaid, further informs your Honors, that said Price, intending to make a comfortable provision for his family, consisting of his wife and his nieces Sarah Creese and Margaret Creese, out of his personal pro perty, and to permit and enable them and the survivor of them to continue to live for the residue of their lives in his mansion-house as they had been accustomed to do for many years preceding his death, if they should choose to avail themselves of the privilege; and, after the decease of them and the survivor of them, to set apart the said real estate as a fund to sustain a pious and benevolent trust and charity for the public objects aforesaid; did on the thirtieth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy make and publish his last will and testament, a copy of which with the codicil thereto is to this information annexed.

And the said Attorney General, at and by the relation aforesaid, further informs your Honors, that in said will said Price declared that he did humbly commit his soul to God, and did most humbly beseech Him to receive it, not relying on any merits of his own, but only through the Atonement and Satisfaction made for lost man kind by His Ever Blessed Son, Jesus Christ, and through His Merits and Mediation alone did humbly ask pardon of all his sins, hoping for a joyful resurrection at the next personal appearing of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, the Only Son of God: and the said testator did order that his body should be interred in the tomb built and owned by him under Trinity Church in said Boston; and that at his funeral the burial service of the Church of England should be performed, and that one of two clergymen of said Church, mentioned in his will, should preach a sermon in said Trinity Church.

And the said Attorney General, at and by the relation aforesaid, further informs your Honors, that the said testator, in and by his said will, after ordering all his debts and legacies and funeral expenses to be paid out of his personal estate; and, after making certain bequests to his nieces, did give and bequeath all the residue of his personal property to his wife, Sarah Price, requesting her to give whatever thereof Should remain at her decease to his said nieces Sarah and Margaret, or the survivor of them; and did direct his pew in the said King's Chapel to be given up to the wardens of said church, they paying to the executrix of his said will sixteen pounds for the same; and did give his pew in said Trinity Church to his said wife during her life, and, after her decease, to his said nieces, as in said will set forth.

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