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OP Franklin got a job with a business man who brought him back to Philadelphia. But they both had an illness, which the older man did not survive.
"He left me a small legacy in a nuncupative will, as a token of his kindness for me, and he left me once more to the wide world; for the store was taken into the care of his executors, and my employment under him ended."
nuncupative
adj.
5LL nuncupativus, so-called, nominal < L nuncupare, to name before witnesses as one‘s heir < nomen, NAME + capere, to take: see HAVE6 oral, not written: said esp. of wills
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