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 7
His death as aforesaid: and that the said John H McInstosh
and Albert G Phillips did on the same day and year
last aforesaid make and file in this Honourable Court are apprai-
sement of certain of the said personal property and slave am
-ounting to the sum of thirty thousand and Eighty Dollars, as
Will move fully and at Large appear by reference to the records
and proceedings in relation to said Estate now remaining on file
in this Honorable Court reference thereto being had, and
your Petitioner for greater certainty beg leave to refer to all the records
and
proceedings on the hearing of this matter.
And your Petitioners further shew unto your Honor that
the said Kingsley B. Gibbs and Benjamin A. Putnam who are so
acting as such Executors as aforesaid have not filed
in this Honourable Court any inventory of any of the personal property
and slaves belonging to said Estate except what is con-
-tained in said appraisement, and your Petitioners are
advised and believe that said appraisement does not
contain such an inventory as is required by Law in such
cases: and that such as it is, if does not contain any list
or item of notes, bonds, accounts, or other claims due to the
said Estate, of which, your Petitioners are informed and believe
that these are a very considerable number, amounting to a very
large sum: but what number or to what sum they amount
Your Petitioners do not know: nor does the said appraise
ment contain any item or account of any monies recovered
of the Government of the United States (as will appear by
reference thereto) although your Petitioners are informed
and believe and so state the fact to be, that the said
Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin A. Putnam, as such
Executors as aforesaid have received, or have to their
credit in some bank in the city of New York or elsewhere
at least Forty Thousand Dollars. of money which has been
recovered of the Government aforedsaid for losses sustained
by the said Zephaniah Kingsley by the operation of the
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