The petition to the will made by Martha McNeill and others to Judge Farquhar Bethune, filed November 30, 1844.
(From: Papers concerning the will of Zephaniah
Kingsley, 1844, 1846,
Series M87-
20)
To the Honorable Farquhar Bethune Judge of the County
Court of Duval County in the Territory of Florida in Probate sitting:
Humbly [illegible] your Honor your petitioners
Martha McNeill, William Gibbs McNeill, and Catherine Palmer,
late Catherine McNeill of Stonington in the State of Connecticut
Anna Whistler, late Anna McNeill, of George W. Whistler her
husband of St. Petersburg in the Empire of Russia, Isabella
King, late Isabella Gibbs, and Ralph King her husband of
New Orleans in the state of Louisiana and Sophia H.
Cooper, late Sophia Gibbs of Fort George Island in Duval
County aforesaid heirs of Zephaniah Kingsley late, and legal representatives
of Fort
George Island aforesaid in the County aforesaid deceased,
That the said Zephaniah Kingsley departed this life in
the City of New York in the State of New York in or about
the month of September in the year of our Lord one thousand
Eight Hundred and forty three leaving your petitioners
and Kingsley B. Gibbs of Fort George Island aforesaid
in the County aforesaid, George Cooper Gibbs of New
Orleans aforesaid, in the State of Lousisana aforesaid and
Charles J. McNeill San Jose of Duval County aforesaid
(as your petitioners believe) his only heirs and legal represent-
tatives and also leaving a large estate consisting of Lands
money slaves and other property a considerable portion of each
of [which] [illegible due to tear] the time of the death of the
said Zephaniah Kingsley [illegible]
jurisdiction of this Honorable Court To wit in Duval
County aforesaid
And your petitioners further (show?) unto
your Honor that the said Zephaniah Kingsley in his life
time to whit: on or about the twentieth day of July
in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty three at Jacksonville
in the County aforesaid made and executed (a certain
instrument of writing which he called) his Last Will and
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