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Miscellaneous Deeds, Grants, Petitions & Wills
(C)
Samuel Colton

 

(Transcriber's note: The handwriting in this will is extremely difficult to read and in some cases, completely illegible. In such cases, if a word cannot be read, ??? will indicate such; if a word is doubtful, ? will be added to the end of it.)

 

Samuel Colton

               1888

 

Supreme Court of Newfoundland
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Central District
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ST. JOHN'S         ) I do swear that I believe that Samuel Colton
To Wit                 ) late of St. John's aforesaid Cooper
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 any 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 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 one thousand and two hundred dollars.

Sworn before me, at St. John's, the 4th day of                 )                 her
April in the year of Our Lord One Thousand                  )        Lydia X Colton
Eight Hundred and Eighty Eight having been                  )                 mark
first read over & explained                                             )
Geo. I. Adams
Commissioner of Affidavits

 

                 1888

Estate of Samuel Colton

late of St. John's

In the Central District

Cooper deceased

Dated 4th April 1880

Admin----- granted to

Lydia Colton
of
St. John's Widow

Sureties
George A Hutchings
                James L. Ducheman?

Estate sworn under

                $1200  00/100

 

Notice
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After three days application will be made to the Supreme Court or one of the Judges thereof for letters of administration of the Estate of Samuel Colton late of St. John's Cooper deceased to be granted to Lydia Colton widow of the deceased

                St. Johns March 27, 1888
                Whiteway Johnson
                Solicitors for applicant
(marginal inscription)
"G.J.A."

 

                I certify that this notice has been posted up in the Clerks office ?? and since the? 27th of March instant and that no caveat has been entered thereto.

                March 31, 1888

                Geo. I. Adams

                AfSC?

(Transcriber's note: George Adams was the Commissioner of Affidavits at the time, and the inscription following his name probably refers to this.)

 

                To the Honourable the Supreme
                Court of Newfoundland or one
                of the Judges of the Said Court.

                The petition of Lydia Colton of St. Johns in the Island of Newfoundland, Widow.

Humbly Showeth

that your petitioner's late husband Samuel Colton late of St. Johns aforesaid, Cooper, departed this life on or about the twenty-first day of November last leaving surviving his widow, your petitioner and the following children, viz. Mary Anne, wife of Thomas Williams of Brixham, England, Albert John of St. Johns aforesaid, Cooper, Francis A. of 372 Merrick Street, East Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States of America, Cooper, Heber? ??? of the same place, Cabinet Maker, and Rachel? of St. Johns aforesaid Spinster,
                That? the said Samuel Colton died intestate possessed of or
("entitled" in lower right corner of page)

Entitled to property or assets in this Colony to an amount not exceeding in value as your petitioner is? advised? and only? the sum of one thousand dollars

                That all the said children have assigned all their interest and property in the Estate of the said Samuel Colton to your petitioner.
That no letters of administration have been granted to the Estate of the said Samuel Colton.
                Your petitioner humbly prays that Letters of Administration to the Estate of the said Samuel Colton may be granted to her p.e? (lengthy passage crossed out and initialed p.e? and as in duty bound will ever pray

St. Johns Nfld?                 )                          her
                                         )                 Lydia X Colton
27th day of March             )                          mark

A.D. 1888                        )

(note inserted at bottom of this page)
Witnesses
read and explained
Geo. ?? Johnson

 

                                                  Supreme Court
In the matter of the estate of                       )
Samuel Colton late of St. Johns                )
Cooper deceased . . . . .                              )

Newfoundland
St. John's ???                 )
Lydia Colton of St. Johns aforesaid widow the petitioner named in the above written petition maketh oath and saith that the several matters and things therein contained are just and true.

Sworn before me at                 )                         her
St. Johns aforesaid this            )                 Lydia X Colton
27th day of March                   )                          mark
A.D. 1888 the same having
been first read over and ex-
plained to the said Lydia
Colton

???ott ???ton
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Commr
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Supreme Court

In re Estate of                 )
Samuel Colton
                -----                )
Petition for Administration
                -----

Fiat

    F B T Carter
    C.I.?

 

 

Page transcribed by Gordon Bennett

Page Revised by Ivy F. Benoit (Saturday August 19, 2017)

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