Intestate Estate of
Frances Newell

Admin granted
to Wm. Freeman

March 14, 1836

To the Honourable the Chief
Justice and the Assistant
judges of the Supreme
Court.

The petition of William Freeman of St. John's Carpenter humbly sheweth
that Frances Newell late of St. John's aforesaid widow died about two years hence, without having made and published any last will or Testament, and being possessed at the time of her death of a piece of ground with a house and improvements thereon situate at Port de Grave in the Northern District of the value of about one hundred pounds.

That the said intestate left her surviving four sons and three daughters, all of full age and residing within the Central District - That the estate of the said intestate is indebted to your petitioner in the sum of about five pounds, and in order to obtain payment of which your petitioner frequently applied to the said sons of the intestate and requested them to file for letters of administration of the estate of the said intestate, but that they have always declined and refused so to do.

That the names of the sons of the said intestate are severally, John - Robert - Nicholas and George, and the names of the said daughters are Ann - Margaret and Abigail, all of whom are married -

Your petitioner therefore humbly prays that your Lordships will be pleased to grant him letters of administration of the said estate, upon his ??? the necessary security, and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c.
Wm. Freeman

The above named William Freeman maketh oath and saith that all and singular the matters and things stated and set forth in the foregoing petition are just and true to the best of his knowledge and belief.
Wm. Freeman

Sworn before me at St. John's
tenth day of July 1836
E W ???
Chief ?? Of the Supreme Court

The Intestate estate
of Frances Newell

Petition of
Wm. Freeman
for admin.

We the within named John Newell Robert Newell - Nicholas Newell and George Newell - do hereby consent and agree that letters of administration of the estate of our late mother Frances Newell should be granted to the within named petitioner -

Signed in presence of ????
By Thomas & Ann
Mitchell in presence of the ???
George Newell
Thomas Mitchel
Ann her x mark Mitchell

SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND

St. John's
to wit
      I do swear that I believe Frances Newell late of St. John's widow deceased, died without a will; and that I will well and truly administer all and every the Goods of the said deceased, and pay his debts so far as his Goods will extend; and that I will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said Goods of the deceased, and render a true account of my Administration into the Registry of the said Court, within ??? months from the date hereof, or when I shall be thereunto lawfully required; and that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits, and Effects of the said deceased, which she died possessed of, within the jurisdiction of this Court, do not, according to the best of my knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of ___________ Pounds sterling.
Wm. Freeman

Sworn at St. John's the fourteenth day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and thirty six
E ????
Chief ???

Note: - There is a reference to a Port de Grave District property.
This is important because the origins of this family are not clear.

Further notes from Pete Noel: The property mentioned in Port De Grave was inherited from her father........

Frances Newell nee Mugford and the Port de Grave Connection

An update on Nicholas Newell and Frances Mugford from Walter Batten:
Aug 5, 1817
Superior Court
St. John's.

Nicholas Newell, St. John's Planter Memorial. Married Frances, the eldest daughter of the late Robert Mugford of Port de Grave, Planter deceased.The Mugford Will in 1772 left land there to his wife Ann and then to his daughter Frances. Mugford died about 1794. His will:
http://ngb.chebucto.org/Wills/cbc-mugford-robert-7-168.shtml
His widow died in 1813. She had leased the property for 31 years to John Walsh who assigned it to Pete MacPherson who now would not pay. Sep 15, 1817. Continuation of Case. Frances claimed the property and won.
transcription of new lease
http://ngb.chebucto.org/Wills/cbc-walsh-john-newell-nicholas.shtml