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 16
George Kingsley, John Maxwell Kingsley, Flora
Kingsley, Sarah M Kingsley, and Micanopy may be
cited and admonished to be and appear before
this Honorable Court at a day and place to be
named by your Honor to shew cause if any they
have or can shew why the said probate of the said
instrument of writing so called the Last wills and testament
of the said Zephaniah Kingsley deceased as aforesaid
should not be disapproved annulled and set aside
and why the granting and issuing of the said
Letters testamentary should not also be disappro-
-ved and the said Letters Testamentary revoked and
annulled: and why the said instrument of
writing so called the Last will and testament of
the said Zephaniah Kingsley deceased should not
by the order Judgement and decree of this
Honorable Court be declared to be null and
void: And why Letters of Administration should
not be granted to the next of kin of the said
Zephaniah Kingsley deceased or to such person
or persons as the said next of kin may nominate
for that purpose according to Law and the
practice of this Honorable Court: And why
the said Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin A Putnam
and each of them should not render a true and
perfect inventory of the said Goods and Estate which were
of the said Zephaniah Kingsley deceased at the
time of his death which have come into their hands
or within their control or into the hands or within
the control of either of them: and why they
should not turn the same over and deliver
them to the Administration or Administrators so to be
appointed by this Honorable Court to administer
the same as aforesaid: and generally to do, performs,
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