SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND

Estate ofRobert Marshall
Of Carbonear

Harbor Grace
To Wit:

I do swear that I believe Robert Marshall my
late father, late of Carbonear in the
Northern District of Newfoundland

deceased died with out 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 ashisGoods will extend; and that I will
exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the said Goods of the de-
ceased, rnd [sic] render a true account of my Administration into the
Registry of the said Court, within six months from the
date hereof, or whenIshall be thereunto lawfully required;
and that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits
and effects of the said deceased, which he died possessed of,
within the jurisdiction of this Court, do not, according to the best of
my knowledge, judgement, and belief, amount to the value of
Two [Hundred] dollars

Pounds sterling

Sworn at Harbor Grace
the thirteenth day of
May in the year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight            [signed] Robert Marshall
Hundred and 74
[signed] [illegible]

SUPREME COURT OF NEWFOUNDLAND

BE IT REMEMBERED, That on this Eleventh -------day of
May in the thirty Seventh ------ Year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lady Victoria
           by the Grace of God, of the United King-
dom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith,
&c, and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred
and Seventy four? -----personally appeared Robert
Marshall of Carbonear in the Northern District
of Newfoundland, Cooper, Henry I Forward???
of same place Gentleman andJohn Riley
of same place Cooper ---------

and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to
our said Sovereign Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, in
the penal Sum ofFour Hundred dollars------
           ------- to be had, made, and levied on
their Goods, Chattels, and Effects jointly and severally if default
is made in any of the Conditions following:

NOW THE CONDITION of this Obligation is such, That if the above
bounden Robert Marshall----------------------------------
as Administrator ---------------------------------------------
of the Estate and Effects of Robert Marshall-----------------
late of Carbonear aforesaid---------------------------------

deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a just, true and perfect Inventory
of all and singular, the Goods, Credits and Effects of the said deceased,
which have or shall come to the hands, possession, or knowledge of

him the saidRobert Marshall--------------------

as such Administrator--------------------------

or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him
and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the Supreme
Court of Newfoundland, at or before the Eleventh ----- day of
November next ensuing the date hereof; and the said Goods, Chattels,
Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Ef-
fects of the said deceased, at the time of his death, or which at any
time afterwards shall come to the hands of possession of him
the said Robert Marshall as said Administrator
            ------------------- --------------- or to the hands or possession
of any other person or persons for him- shall well and truly admin-
ister according to Law, and further shall make, or cause to be made, a
just and true Account of his -- said Administration, on or before the
Eleventh day of May --- which will be in the Year of
our Lord One Thousand Eight hundred and and [sic] seventy five and
afterwards from time to time as he----- shall be lawfully required.

And all the rest, residue and remainder of the said Goods, Chattels,
Credits, and Effects, which shall be found remaining upon the said Ad-
ministration Account, the same being examined and allowed by the said
Supreme Court of Newfoundland, shall and do pay and dispose of in
a due course of Administration, or in such manner as the said Court
shall direct; --- then this Obligation to be void and of no effect, or else to
be and remain in full force and virtue.

Signed and Sealed             Robert Marshall
in the presence of              H. F? Forward?
[signed] Lrms. ?             John Riley

Italics represents hand writing; everything else was printed.
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