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Miscellaneous Deeds, Grants, Petitions & Wills
(D)
Selby Allan Dow

 

Selby A. Dow
          1894

The Estate of Selby A. Dow 1894
From LDS microfilm #2057392

 

AFFIDAVIT.
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In the Supreme Court of Newfoundland.
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NEWFOUNDLAND    }
Little Bay to Wit:          }

I do swear that I believe that Selby Allan Dow Late of Pilley's Island in the Northern District of Newfoundland accountant

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 Six months after 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, of which he died possessed, within the jurisdiction of this Court, do not, according to the best of my knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of Four hundred and fifty Dollars.
So help me GOD.

Sworn before me, at Little Bay     }
This 21st day of                              }
April A.D., 1894                            } John B. Blandford
                                                                 ------------------
John C Duder
Commissioner of Affidavits,
Supreme Court.

 

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Estate of Selby Allan Dow
late of Pilleys Island
in the Northern District
Accountant deceased
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Admin. Granted to J.B Blandford
of Little Bay
in the Northern District
Stipendiary Magistrate
------------

Dated
15th May 1894
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Sureties, Joseph B. Howson
R.D. Walsh

Estate sworn under $450.00.

 

Certificate

I hereby certify that the notice upon the other side hereof written has been posted in the office of C.C & Reg. since the day of the date thereof and that no caveat or other objection has been filed.

St. Johns Apl 12th, 1894
Geo. J. Adams
K of C.

 

Notice

After three days from the date hereof application will be made to the Honorable the Supreme Court or to one of the Honorable the Judges thereof for Letters of Administration to the Estate of Selby Allan Dow late of Pilleys Island Accountant deceased to be granted to Job B. Blandford of Little Bay Stipendiary Magistrate
St. John's March 27th 1894
HR Hayward
Sol for applicant.
JPC

 

To the Honorable
The Supreme Court
or one of the Honorable
Judges thereof.

The Petition of John Bennett Blandford of Little Bay Stipendiary Magis-trate and Justice of the Peace

Humbly sheweth

That Selby Allan Dow of Harbour Grace and late of Pilleys Island was deceased ??? Indian Bight, Little Bay on the 27th day of August 1893. That the deceased to the best of the petitioners knowledge died intestate, and left him surviving Ronald Dow, and Robert Dow, brothers residing at Montreal in Canada

That the deceased was possessed of some(?) property at the time of his decease of the value of not more than Four thousand Dollars.

That petitioners has been duly appointed Attorney for the said Ronald Dow, and Robert Dow.
That your petitioner is unaware of any administration to the Estate and Effects of deceased having been granted to any one.

Your Petitioner therefore pray,

 

That Administration to the Estate and Effects of deceased may be granted to him.
And as duty bound will ever pray. ---------------
John Bennett Blandford
-----------------------

In the Supreme Court

In the matter of          }
Selby Allan Dow       }
deceased                     }

John B. Blandford of Little Bay the foregoing petitioner maketh Oath and swearth that the several matters and things in the fore-going petition set forth, are correct and true to the best of this Deponents (?) judgment knowledge and belief. -----------
John B. Blandford
-----------------------
Sworn before me          }
at Little Bay                  }
this 13th day of             }
March AD 1894.           }

John C Duder
Commissioner
Affidavits
S. Court
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Supreme Court of Newfoundland
--------------------

Be it Remembered, that on this Twenty first day of April in the 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 Ninety-four, personally appeared John B Blandford of Little Bay in the Northern District Stipendiary Magistrate
Joseph B Howson also of Little Bay Land Surveyor and Richard D Walsh, Telegraphist
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 of  nine hundred dollars ------------ to be had, made, and levied on their Goods, Chattels, and  Effect 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 John B. Blandford as Administrator of the Estate and Effects of Selby Allan Dow late of Pilleys Island in the Northern District Accountant ----------------------------------------- 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 said John B. Blandford as such Administrator or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the Supreme Court of Newfoundland at or before the 21st 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 his death, or which at any time afterwards shall come to the hands or possession of him the said John B. Blandford --- or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons for him shall well and truly administer 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 21st day of April which will be in the year of Our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Ninety-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 Adminis-tration 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          } John B. Blandford
in the presence of                      }
John C Duder          Joseph. B. Howson

AD Walsh
Commissioner of affidavit
of the Supreme Court of
Newfoundland.

 

KNOW ALL MEN BY THESE PRESENTS that we, RONALD DOW and ROBERT WILLIAM DOW, both of the City of Montreal, in the province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, Clerks, sole surviving brothers of the late SELBY ALLAN DOW, in his lifetime of Pilleys Island, Newfoundland have made, ordained, constituted and appointed, and by these presents do make, ordain, constitute and appoint, and in our place and stead put JOHN B. BLANDFORD of Little Bay, Newfoundland, Esquire, Stipendary Magistrate, to be our true and lawful Attorney for us and in our names to take possession of the Estate of our late brother SELBY ALLAN DOW, in his lifetime of Pilleys Island aforesaid,who died intestate on or about the twenty-seventh day of August one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893), to ask demand, recover and receive of and from any person or persons, corporations or firms, either residing or carrying on trade or business in Pilleys Island, Newfoundland or in any other place whatsoever, any and all sums of money, goods or chattels that may be owing and due to him or to his Estate, and on receipt of any sum or sums of money, goods, or chattels, a good and valid receipt and discharge in our name to give and to grant, and in case of nondelivery of any of said goods and chattels, or of non-payment of said money, a suit or suits for the recovery of the same in our names to institute, in any court of Law or Equity, and at his pleasure the same to abandon, and another or others in their place to institute, and either to prosecute the same to judgment or to

 

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To settle and compound the same, either by arbitration or otherwise. To appeal from any decision that may be rendered in any Court of Law or Equity, of any suit that may be taken by our said Attorney by virtue of these presents: To adjust and settle any and all claims that may be due by our said late brother or by his Estate to any person or persons, firms or corporations either in Pilleys Island, Little Bay, or in any other place in Newfoundland whatsoever: to withdraw all registered and other letters from Her Majesty's Post Office, and to pass any and all necessary entries in Her Majesty's Customs: AND FURTHERMORE, to execute and perform all and every such other act, deed, matter and thing which shall or may be needful or expedient in and about the premises or which our said Attorney may think proper, as fully and effectually and to all intents and purposes as we, the said constituents might or could do, or have done in our own proper persons if these presents have not been made: AND for the better doing, performing and executing all or any of the matters and things aforesaid, we, the said constituents do hereby give and grant to the said hereby constituted Attorney full power and authority to constitute and appoint, and in his place and stead put one or more Attorney or Attorneys, and such appointments again at his pleasure to revoke, and other or others in his or their place to substitute; we, the said constituents hereby ratifying and confirming and promising to ratify and confirm all and whatsoever our said Attorney or his said substitute or substitutes in and about the premises

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Promises shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of these presents.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF we have hereunto set our hands and seals at the City of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, the Eleventh ------- day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Signed, Sealed and Delivered          } Ronald Dow
In the presence of                             } -------------------
Monier W. Hutchings Jr.               }
of the City of Montreal                    } Robert William Dow
Clerk. Witness                                  } --------------------------
Arthur W. Hutchings                      }
of the city of Montreal,                    }
Clerk Witness                                    }
(Seals affixed opposite signatures of the Dow brothers.)

I, Monier Williams Hutchings, Junior of the City and District of Montreal, in the Province of Quebec and Dominion of Canada, being duly sworn do depose and say:

That I am one of the subscribing witnesses to the Power of Attorney hereto annexed; that I know the Constituents therein named; that I was personally present on the Eleventh.----- day of December, one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three (1893), and did then and there see the said Ronald Dow and Robert William Dow sign and seal the said Power of Attorney; that the signatures Ronald Dow and Robert William Dow subscribed to the said Power of Attorney are the proper hand-writing and true signatures of the said Ronald Dow and Ro-

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bert William Dow, and that the names Monier W. Hutchings Jr. and Arthur W. Hutchings subscribed to the said Power of Attorney, as attesting the execution thereof, are the proper signatures of the said Arthur W. Hutchings and of this deponent.

Sworn and Acknowledged before    }
me at the City of Montreal, in          }
the province of Quebec, and Dom   }
inion of Canada this----------------   } Monier W. Hutchings. Jr.
Twelfth…day of December              }
one thousand eight hundred and      }
ninety-three.

Richard I Wynns
----
A Commissioner of the Superior
Court, in and for the District
of Montreal, Province of Quebec

Dominion of Canada -.

Law Stamp 20?? Quebec affixed
Seal affixed - not readable.

 

Dated 11th.           December,1893.

POWER OF ATTORNEY

from -
RONALD DOW & ROBERT WM. DOW.

to -

JOHN B. BLANDFORD.

------------------------------

 

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Dunlop Lymarch Macpherson
Advocates.
Montreal. Canada.
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In the Estate of
Selby Allan Dow
late of Pilley's Island
Accountant deceased
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Petition of John B.
Blandford
for Letters
of Administration

Fiat
April 12/94
J.S. Winter
J.

H.R. Hayward
Sol. for Pet.

 

 

Page transcribed by Josephine Gazley

Page Revised by Ivy F. Benoit ( Thursday September 21, 2017 )

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