Show FI FITZ r it lh 5 WILL I Written Long Ago It Contains the Generals G Personal Defense New York Times Morristown N Jr J Oct Act 18 For five or six weeks there has hal rested In the theoffice office of the Surrogate in this city a I sealed envelope which contained a a copy I of the will wUl of General Gene ral FItzJohn F Por ter who died here some months ago The 11 will HI was drawn long ago In It there Is a clause which calls on his sons and other members rs of the family to vindicate Indicate his name after he Is dead I In the years that elapsed after the will was waR written it Is said the general gained some property proper so that the statement that the estate e tate will simply 1 i pay his debts Is not believed to be bet t born out by the facts The I tion he called for was granted before I he died j The will it Is expected each day da will be filed for probate It Is said sald that hat the I delay Is occasioned by the desire to have all the accountings ready for ad at once brace There are several persons who know the he substance of ot I what the will contains It was drawn on June 17 18 6 It names Mrs Por ter his wife as the executrix To H I FItzJohn Porter his son is left his J I gold watch books and papers together with a sword presented by the fifth corps of the army arm of the Potomac To Toi i Robert E Porter another son is left lefta i a sword presented present d by a citizen of Bos Boa ton To his daughters Lucia and andr Eve line the general leaves books and pic pie tures The papers bearing upon the question of his conduct are arc all in in the legacy to his son and namesake The will affirms the generals Inno cence of ot the charges made against him I land and says that as a soldier and an of fleer he was faithful to the trust placed in him and that he tried to be true and obedient to those placed above him and to none more so than to Gen eral John Pope during the campaign of 1862 I |