Jeremiah Toraville
          1899

Estate of Jeremiah Toraville 1899
From LDS Microfilm #2057448

Notice

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 Probate to the Will of the late Jeremiah Toraville to be granted to JeremiahToraville the Executor in the said will named.
          St. Johns June 9th 1899
Knight & Blandford
Solicitors for said Executor

Certificate

I hereby certify that the notice upon the other side hereof written has been posted in the office of the Chief Clerk and Registrar at the Court House in St. Johns from the day of the date thereof to the present day.
          St. Johns July 16^th 1899
Geo. J. Adams
A.C.S.C
C.C.&Reg'r

To the Honourable the Supreme Court or any of the Honourable the Judges thereof.
The Petition of Jeremiah Toraville of Herring Neck in the Southern District of Newfoundland

Humbly Sheweth

1. That Jeremiah Toraville late of Herring Neck in the Southern District aforesaid planter died on or about the thirteenth day of December Anno Domini Eighteen hundred and ninety seven having made and published his last will and testament hereto annexed marked A proven in common form.
2. That the said deceased was possessed at the time of his death of property of the probable value of Four hundred dollars
3. That the said Jeremiah Toraville left him surviving three sons Joseph Benjamin Jeremiah and three daughters Elizabeth Amelia and Lucy
4. That in and by his said last will and testament the said testator appointed your Petitioner to be ??? thereto.
5. That no probate or administration has been granted to the Estate or any
   
   
   
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   will? of the said Jeremiah Toraville.

          Your Petitioner therefore prays that Probate of the said Will be granted to him F??? of this Honorable Court and as in duty bound he will ever pray &c &c &c
Jeremiah Toraville

Dated at Twillingate this twenty
third day of May, AD 1899
Witness
F. Berteau

Newfoundland
Twillingate
to wit
I Jeremiah Toraville of Gut? Arm Herring Neck make oath and say that the several matters and things contained and set forth in the foregoing petition are correct and true.
Sworn before me at                              Jeremiah Toraville
Twillingate aforesaid
this 23^rd day of May
AD 1899

F. Berteau
Commissioner of the Supreme Court

In the Supreme Court of
Newfoundland

In the matter of the
Will of Jeremiah
Toraville late of Herring
Neck deceased

Petition for Probate

Fiat - but not to
be used until the papers
are presented duly stamped.
The Commr's attention
should be drawn to the
proving of the act and the
??? ??? ??? ??? from
such non-???
J. J. L.
As these are Probate
fees the act may not
be intended to affect them.

In the Supreme Court of Newfoundland
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Newfoundland
St. John's To Wit          I Robert Grundy of Herring Neck, Agent, make oath and say that on the 6^th day of November A.D. one thousand eight hundred and ninety five at Herring Neck I was present and did see Jeremiah Toraville late of Herring Neck the Testator named in the paper writing hereunto annexed, marked A, duly sign (by making his mark) publish and declare the said annexed paper writing as and for his last Will and Testament, in my presence and in the presence of George S. Chamberlain, Clerk in Holy Orders, the other subscribing witness thereto. That I and said S. Chamberlain then and there signed our names to such Will as such witnesses, in the presence of the said Testator and of each other. That previously to the said Will being so signed, as aforesaid, by the said Testator and the said witnesses, it was read over to and approved of by the said Testator in the presence of me and the said George S. Chamberlain and that at the time of the said execution of the said Will the said Testator was of sound and disposing mind, memory and understanding, to the best of my knowledge and belief.

Sworn at Twillingate                                        R. Grundy
this 23^rd day of May                                        Agent
A.D. 1899

Before me

F. Berteau
Commissioner of Affidavits, Supreme Court

A

This is the last Will and Testament of Jeremiah Toraville, planter, Herring Neck, in the electoral district of Twillingate, Newfoundland. I hereby give, devise, and bequeath to my eldest son Joseph, the land upon which his house now stands, including six feet towards my home?, the whole of it in the direction of James Smart, the waterside frontage at? the Cove, the lower length of the Potatoe [sic] garden, & the grass? garden in the Gut - Arm & one herring net.
I give, devise, & bequeath to my son Benjamin, the part of the room towards Robert Rice's ??? the half of the house he now occupies, part of the potatoe [sic] garden, the part of the meadow in Gut Arm, & part of the meadow up the road? ; both - now respectively occupied by him, one herring net, half the stage, the old store house & sheep barn.
I give, devise, & bequeath to my youngest son, Jeremiah, the half of this dwelling house now in my occupation, the whole of the remainder of my room, with buildings, stages & flakes lying between the aforesaid bequests to my two sons Joseph & Benjamin. Of the remaining portions of my gardens, meadows, & the remainder of my estate and effects, both real and personal, whatsoever, wheresoever, and of what nature and quality now

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And I hereby decree that the above bequests are to my sons, Joseph, Benjamin, & Jeremiah respectively to their heirs, executors, & administrators for their own use and benefits absolutely and forever, that they are never to go out of the family whilst there is a heir.
I give, devise, & bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth my watch & bible and I hereby appoint my son Jeremiah the sole executor of this my will.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this sixth day of November one thousand eight hundred and ninety five.

Signed by the said Jeremiah Toraville in the presence of us, present at the same time, who, in his presence and in the presence of each other attest & subscribe our names as witnesses hereto.

George S. Chamberlain
Clerk in Holy Orders

Robert Grundy
Agent

Will of

Jeremiah Toraville

AFFIDAVIT
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In the Supreme Court of Newfoundland
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Newfoundland
To Wit          I Jeremiah Toraville do swear that I believe this to be the true Last Will and Testament of Jeremiah Toraville late of Herring Neck Planter deceased. I do further swear that I will pay all the Debts and Legacies of the said deceased so far as his Goods shall extend, and the law shall bind me, and that I will exhibit a full, true and perfect Inventory of all and every the Goods, Rights and Credits of the deceased, together with a just and true account into the Registry of the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, when I shall be lawfully called thereto. And I do further swear that the whole of the Goods, Rights, Chattels, Assets, Credits and Effects of the said deceased, and of which he died possessed, do not, according to the best of my knowledge, judgment and belief, amount to the value of Four Hundred Dollars

So help me God

Sworn at Twillingate                                    Jeremiah Toraville
this 23^rd day of May
A.D. 1899

Before me

F. Berteau
Commissioner of Affidavits, Supreme Court

1899

Estate of Jeremiah Torraville

late of Herring Neck

In the Northern District

Planter deceased

Probate granted to
Jeremiah Torraville Jr.
of Herring Neck, Planter
the Executor named in the Will

Dated 23^rd June 1899

Estate sworn under $400.00

The Hon'r Jos. J. Little Chief Justice
Geo. H. Emerson Judge
D. Morison Judge

Geo. J. Adams
A.C.S.C. Chief Clerk and Registrar