Naomi Bartlett
          1887

Estate of Naomi Bartlett 1887
From LDS microfilm #2057238

Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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(initials in left margin) JW Brigus
ST. JOHN'S, } I do swear that I believe that Naomi Bartlett
    To Wit.      } late of Brigus aforesaid 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 her debts, so far as her 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 her Administration into the Registry of the said Court, within six 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 the value of one thousand seven hundred dollars.

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JW                              Brigus
Sworn before me, at St. John's, the   ninth day of } sign here
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JW April May in the year of Our Lord One Thousand } Mary Willcox
Eight Hundred and Eighty- seven } + ??? Wilcox
                    J Wilcox
                       Commissioner of Affidavits

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1887
Estate of Naomi Bartlett

Late of   Brigus

In the   Northern      District

        Widow       deceased

Dated   May 21^st 1887
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Admin ____ granted to

Mary Wilcox               of
  Brigus   Married woman
Sureties
       John M. Wilcox
      Henry T Bartlett
       Isaac Bartlett
Estate sworn under

                    $ 1700 00/100

Notice

After three days application will be made to the Honourable the Supreme Court or one of the Honourable the Judges thereof for Letters of Administration of the Estate and Effects of Naomi Bartlett late of Brigus Widow deceased to be granted to Mary Wilcox of Brigus only daughter of deceased

St Johns April 20.1887
D Morison
Procta fr Applicant

(initials in left margin) JA

I certify that the notice on the other side hereof written are posted in my office on the day of the date hereof and has remained there until this day and that no caveat or other objection has been entered thereto

St Johns  April 25^h. 1887
Geo. I. Adams

A.f.SC

To the Honourable the Supreme Court of Newfoundland or one of the Honourable the Judges thereof

The Petition of Mary Wilcox of Brigus at present of Saint Johns wife of John Wilcox of Brigus Planter

Humbly Sheweth

          That Naomi Bartlett late of Brigus aforesaid Widow died there in the month of September last intestate leaving her surviving as sole next of Kin her daughter your petitioner
          That said deceased at the time of her death was possessed of property of the probable value of Sixteen hundred dollars
          That no probate of any will nor administration of the Estate of said deceased has been granted to any person
          Petitioner therefore prays that Administration of the Estate of said deceased may be granted to her
                 And as in duty bound she will ever pray &c
                  Dated at St Johns this 20^th day of April AD 1887
                      Mary Wilcox

Supreme Court

Newfoundland   }
St Johns, to wit  }  Mary Wilcox of Brigus at present of Saint Johns wife of John Wilcox the Petitioner named in the foregoing Petition maketh oath and saith that the Several written and things therein contained are correct and true
Mary Wilcox
Sworn before me at          }
St Johns this 20^th             }
Day of April AD1887       }
       Geo.I Adams
             Comm^r Sc.

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Supreme Court

In the matter of the Estate
of Naomi Bartlett late
of Brigus   Widow
deceased

Petition of Mary Wilcox
For Admⁿ
Fiat   
          J.J.Little
             A.?f.

Morison

Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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(in left margin) fill JW   Be it Remembered, That on this         ninth             day of April May
(in left margin starting under the initials above) date
                              in the Forty- ninth      Year of the Reign of our Sovereign      LADY VICTORIA, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Queen, Defender of the Faith, &c., and in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-seven personally appeared John Wilcox of Brigus
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Planter and mary his wife. Isaac Bartlett
(in left margin)  of other two          and Henry Thoma. Bartlett, Planter,
(in left margin) Sureties          of Brigus , and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to our said Lady the Queen, Her Heirs and Successors, in the penal Sum of   three     thousand   two 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 THE OBLIGATION IS SUCH, that if the above bounden Mary Wilcox
                                  as Administratrix        of the Estate and Effects of Naomi  Bartlett                            late of Brigus     Widow
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     her         the said     Mary Wilcox
as such Administratrix        or to the hands or possession of any other person, or persons, for   her         and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, in the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, at or before the twenty   third   day of October    next ensuing the date hereof ; and the said Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects, and all other the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, at the time of her death, or which at any time afterwards shall come into the hands or possession of her the said    Mary   Wilcox         or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for her shall well and truly administer according to the Law, and further shall make, or cause to be made, a just and true account of   her  said Administration, on or before the twenty    third      day of     April               which will be in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty-   Eight    and afterwards from time to time as she 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 Administration Account, the same being examined and allowed by the said Supreme Court of Newfoundlandland, shall and do pay and dispose of in due course of Administration, or in such a 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.

Mary Wilcox     

Signed and Sealed            }                    John M  Wilcox
           in the presence of  }                    Henry T Bartlett
JWilcox
----------                                                  Isaac Bartlett