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Something doesn't make sense there: >Before the final Supreme Court decision, Gaspard Tochman, acting on behalf of Kosciusko's relatives, had found an 1816 wil
by garaetjjte 6y ago
Something doesn't make sense there:
>Before the final Supreme Court decision, Gaspard Tochman, acting on behalf of Kosciusko's relatives, had found an 1816 will drawn up in Paris. This will, which revoked the one made in concert with Jefferson and the one concerning Kosciusko Armstrong, was authenticated.
>In September 1817, shortly before his death in October, he wrote a letter to Jefferson mentioning the bequest - "...of which money, after my death, you know the fixed destination."
And one of linked references https://books.google.pl/books?id=ZwqETEY0UiMC&pg=PA23&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.pl/books?id=ZwqETEY0UiMC&pg=PA23&redir_... states: "Significantly, this paper writing not only revoked the American will of 1798[...]", but also weirdly "it made no specific disposition of American estate".
So it looks like case was resolved on some wording technicality of 1798 will, while Kościuszko still thought 1798 will is valid? (as evidenced by October 1817 letter)