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 17
and abide by whatever this Honorable Court shall order
direct and decree in the [??]. And your
Petitioner will ever pray and c.
Tho. Douglas
Proctor for the Petitioners
Territory of Florida
Duval County
The foregoing Petition having been read and only
considered a motion of Thomas Douglas Esquire
Proctor for the Petitioners is hereby ordered and directed
than a citation be issued therein to each of the Defend-
-ants the new named (agreeable to the prayer of the Petitioner)
returnable on the first day of the next Term of this Court
to be holden at the Court House in the Town of Jacksonville
in the County aforesaid on the first Monday in April
next, and that the respective citations to the Executors
in said Petition named be accompanied by
a copy thereof: And that all and each of said Executors
be admonished not to pay out or distribute and they
and each of them are hereby strictly prohibited from paying
out or distributing and ordered not to pay out or distribute any money or
monies or other property of the said Estate of the said
Zephaniah Kingsley deceased which may now be in their
hands or within the power or control, or in the hands, or
within the power or control of either of them: or which
may here after came into their hands, or into the hands,
or within the power or control of either of them, to the
Legators or designees in the said Petition mentioned, or
to any other person or persons whomsoever until the further
order of this court. And this hereby further ordered
and directed that the said Defendant and each
of them answer the said Petition at least ten days
before the said first day of the next term of this Court to be holden.
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