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 8
entirely defective and rivaled, and ought to be revoked
and annulled.
But your Petitioner further shew unto your Honor and
so they, Expressly charge that notwithstanding they had no notice
as above alleged Letters testamentary [were on?] the same day
and year last aforesaid issued by the said Isaiah D Hash
Esq: Clerk as aforesaid to the said Kingsley B Gibbs upon
the said instrument of writing as the Last Will and Testament
of the said Zephaniah Kingsley decd. and that afterwards
[To wit] on or about the thirteenth day of December in the said
year one thousand Eight Hundred and
forty three Letters Testamentary were granted and issued to the
said Benjamin A Putnam upon the said instrument of writing
as the Last Will and Testmanet of as aforesaid by the Honorable
John L Doggett the Judge of this Honorable Court at his
Chambers, but that neither of the said Letters testamentary
were issued under the seal of this Honorable Court and
that they and each of them are, for that cause, as well as the
cause above alleged wholly invalid
And your Petitioners further whew unto your Honor
than the said Kingsley B Gibbs and Benjamin A Putnam each
took the oath as proscribed by Law as Executors of the said
supposed Last Will and Testament of the said Zephenaih
Kingsley deceased at the time when the said Letters Testa-
mentary were respectively issued to them, as aforesaid, and
respectively
thereupon ^ took upon themselves the execution of the said Last
Will and Testament and entered upon the discharge of their
supposed duties as such Executors.
And your Petitioner further shew unto your Honor
that on or about the thirteenth day of March in the year of our
Lord one thousand Eight hundred and forty
four one John H. McIntosh and one Albert G Philips
were appointed by the Judge of this Honorable Court (at
his Chambers) to appraise the personal estate and slaves which
were of the said Zephaniah Kingsley deceased at the time of
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