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I wonder if Thomas Jefferson was aware that he’d be named executor at the time the will was drafted. These days, under U.S. law, you can name someone an executo
by computator 6y ago
I wonder if Thomas Jefferson was aware that he’d be named executor at the time the will was drafted. These days, under U.S. law, you can name someone an executor without their knowledge though the person is allowed to refuse the job (as Jefferson did).
- dd82 6y agoIn the article, second paragraph of the History section >Several years after Kościuszko's death, Jefferson, aged 77, pleaded his inability to execute the will due to age[4] and the numerous legal complexities of the bequest.[5] Jefferson recommended his friend John Hartwell Cocke, who also opposed slavery, to be executor, but Cocke also declined to execute the bequest.[4] He wrote to Jefferson that there were "prejudices to be encountered" in their education and of "an effect which might be produced on the minds of my own people."[4] The federal court appointed an attorney, Benjamin L. Lear, to be executor of the estate. Lear died in 1832, the case still unresolved, and so his executor, Colonel George Bomford, became the executor as well of the Kościuszko estate.[6]