CHAPTER XV.
Both Judge Bigelow and Squire Floyd were discreet men, and did not,
at the outset of their executorship, do more in the way of giving
publicity to the fact, than probating the will, and entering into
bonds for the faithful performance of the trust. For the present
they decided to let Mrs. Montgomery remain in occupancy of the old
mansion, and she accepted this concession in her favor.
The property left by Captain Allen was large. The grounds upon which
the old house stood, embraced nearly twenty acres, and as the town
had grown in that direction, its value might now be estimated by the
foot, instead of the acre, as houses had grown up on all sides.
Moreover, the stream of water upon which the mill of Squire Floyd
stood, ran through these grounds, in a series of picturesque rapids,
giving a fall of over twenty feet. The value of this property,
including a mill site, was estimated at sixty thousand dollars. Then
there were twenty thousand dollars in stock of the County Bank, the
interest of which Mrs. Allen had drawn since the death of her
husband, regularly, as administratrix of the estate.
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