The Estate of Thomas Slade, 1832

From the LDS microfilm # 2056192

Harbor Grace

to wit:

I do swear that I believe Thomas Slade late of Marshalls Folly Conception Bay

deceased, died with 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 Twelve 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, judgment and belief, amount to the value of Five hundred Pounds Sterling.

John (X, his mark) Slade

Sworn at Harbor Grace

the nineteenth day of

November in the Year of

our Lord One Thousand

Eight Hundred and

thirty one

John Stark

Clerk and Registrar

Northern Circuit Court

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We the undersigned the widow and children of the late Thomas Slade of Marshalls Folly Planter do hereby mutually agree and request that the Honorable the Supreme Court will be pleased to grant administration with the will annexed for the estate of the said

Thomas Slade, to John Slade Junior Planter of Marshalls Folly a Brother of the deceased, and annexed is the will of the deceased to be a Grantee? of the Estate and Effects of the said deceased Thomas Slade.

Dated at Carbonear

This 19th November 1831

Mary (X her mark) Budden? widow

John Slade (X his mark) son of Thomas?

Elizabeth (X her mark) Dean

Grace (X her mark) Slade

Witness

William Beminster

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Supreme Court of Newfoundland

Be it remembered that on this Twenty eighth day of May in the second year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord William the Fourth by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. and in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty two personally appeared

John Slade of Marshalls Folly Conception Bay Planter, Richard Clarke of Crockers Cove Planter and Abraham Dean of Crockers Cove Planter

and did acknowledge themselves to be held and firmly bound to our Sovereign Lord the King his Heirs and Successors in the penal Sum of One thousand Pounds of good and lawful money of Great Britain, 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 this Obligation is such, That if the above bounden

John Slade Administrator with the will annexed to the Estate and Effects of Thomas Slade late of Marshalls Folly Planter

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 Slade

or to the hands or possession of any other person or persons, for him and the same so made do exhibit, or cause to be exhibited, into the Supreme Court of Newfoundland, at or before the First day of May next ensuing the date hereof; and the said Goods, Chattels, Credits, and Effects, and all the other 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 Slade

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 First day of May which will be in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Thirty Three 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 Administration Account, the same being first 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 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.

John (X, his mark) Slade

Richard (X his mark) Clarke

Abraham (X his mark) Dean

Signed and Sealed in the presence of

John Stark

Clerk and Registrar

Northern Circuit Court

(note on left hand side: Administration dated 27 July 1832)

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I hereby certify in compliance with the provisions of an Act of Parliament of 5 Geo 4 Cap 6 7? by continued by the II Geo 4 Cap 17; that the execution of the within will by the testator Thomas Slade appear to have been duly proved before the late Reverend John Laigh surrogate on the seventeenth day of December one thousand eight hundred and nineteen by the oath of John Ruby subscribing witness and that a true correct and literal copy of the said will has this day in due course, actually been Registered by me in the Fourth Volume at pages hereby four and twenty five of the Registry of Deeds for the Northern District of the Island of Newfoundland

Given under my hand at the Register of Deeds Office Harbor Grace this eleventh day of

February one thousand eight hundred and thirty two. 1832

John Stark

Registrar of Deeds Northern

District Newfoundland