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)
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informed, but suppose it may have been the said Kingsley
B. Gibbs. But your Petitioners are informed and believe
and so they expressly charge and alledge (sic) that neither
the said Kingsley B. Gibbs or Benjamin A Putnam
have at any time made oath before this Honorable
Court or before the said Isaiah D Hart Esq: Clerk
as aforesaid that he believed the said instrument
writing to be the Last will and Testament of the said Zephani-
ah Kingsley deceased.
And your petitioners further show unto your Hon-
or and also alledge (sic) and expressly charge that they
were not nor was either of them present when the said
instrument of writing was so presented or exhibited to the
Isaiah D Hart Esq. and c. and for probate thereof nor
were they or either of them present when the said proof
of the Execution thereof was taken; nor were they or either
of them notified to attend or in any way informed
that such proof was about to be tendered or taken. Nor
were they or either of them even notified that Letters
Testamentary were about to be applied for upon the
said instrument of writing as the Last Will and
Testament of the said Zephenaiah Kingsley, or otherwise, nor
were they or either of them present at any time when
any letters testamentary were granted or issued upon the
said instrument of writing as such last will and testam-
-ent or otherwise: nor were they or either of them
notified to attend or informed that such Letters of
Testamentary were about to be applied for, or of the
time when, or place where, they were applied for
before the same were issued, nor was any opportunity afforded
to them or either of them to attend and show cause against
the making of such proof or the granting or issuing of
the said Letters testamentary and that the said probate
and the said Letters testamentary are for that cause
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