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

The petition of Selina Bennett of St. John's married woman

1. John Dawe late of Port de Grave Fisherman deceased and husband of your Petitioner died there on or about the 29^th day of August A.D. 1898* intestate.

2. The said deceased left him surviving your Petitioner his Widow now the wife of Philip Bennett two brothers Samuel and Elijah who has since died leaving his Widow and two children who reside at Ship Cove one sister Sarah Fanny wife of Jacob Bradley.

3. The said deceased at the time of his death was possessed of property of the probable value of one hundred and twelve dollars ($112.00) no probate of Will or letters of administration of the estate of said deceased have been previously applied for.

Your Petitioner therefore prays that letters of administration of the estate of said deceased may be granted to her.

And as in duty bound will ever pray.

DATED at St. John's this day of December A.D. 1898.

Selena Bennett

*(Note from Geoff Martin May 2019)

This document was posted in 2004 (NGB does not have a copy of the original document to be able to check). Please verify the dates as I've found that his widow, Selina remarried in 1897 according to vital statistics records so John Dawe must have died before 1898.

http://ngb.chebucto.org/Vstats/post-1891-vol-3-mar-1896-1898a-sjc.shtml