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)
Page 15
Goods and Estate which may at any time have come into
their hands or within their control or into the hands or within
the control of either of them, and that they and each
of them may be required and counseled to turn over
all the said Goods and Estate to the Administrator or
Administrators to be appointed by the Honorable Court to
administer the same within such time as shall to this
Honorable Court seem fit and proper
And your Petitioners further shew unto your Honor that
the said Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin A Putnam as Exec-
-cutors as aforesaid under the said Letters Testamentary so
improperly granted and issued to them respectively as
aforesaid have a large amount of money and other property
of the said Estate in their hands or within their control; and
that they threaten to pay out the said money: And your
petitioners have reason to apprehend and do apprehend
the money they the said Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin
A Putnam shall be restrained by the order and decree of
this Honorable Court they will pay out and distribute the said
money and other property to the said legators or designees
[??] the said pretended Last Will and Testament of the
said Zephaniah Kingsley deceased or other person
persons not entitled to review the same or any part of thereof.
Your Petitioner therefore pray that the said
Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin A Putnam and each of
them may by the order and decree of this Honorable Court
be prohibited restrained and enjoined from paying
out the said money or any part thereof and from
distributing or delivering any of the other property
of the said Estate to the said legators or designees
or any or either of them onto any other person or
persons whomsoever until the further order of this
Honorable Court. And that they and each
of them and the said Charles I McNeill, George
Cooper Gibbs Anna Madgigne Jai Kingsley
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