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 9
American troops in Florida in the years one thousand Eight
Hundred and twelve and one thousand Eight Hundred
and thirteen or since, but although your Petitioners have
deemed it right and proper for them to bring these facts to the notice
of this Honorable Court they are not wish to be understood
as charging and do not charge the said Kingsley
B. Gibbs and Benjamin A Putnam or either of them
with any culpable negligence or with any disposition
to conceal or hold back the monies or other property
of the said Estate: and have only mentioned the facts
for the purpose of shewing the magnitude of the said Estate
and that a full and complete inventory and account
there of may hereafter be made.
And your Petitioners further shew unto your Honor
that the said Anna Madgigne Jai Kingsley is a negress
and that the said George Kingsley, John Maxwell -
Kingsley, Flora Kingsley, Sarah M. Kingsley and Micanopy
are mulattoes: and that the said Anna Madgigne
Jai Kingsley, George Kingsley, John Maxwell Kingsley,
Flora Kingsley, Sarah M. Kingsley and Micanopy
belonged to, and each and every of them was (as your Petitioners
believe and expressly charge) a slave of the said Zephaniah
Kingsley (in his life time) and that he the said Zephaniah
Kingsley held every and each of them as such slave in
the Territory until in or about the month of July in the year
of our Lord one thousand Eight Hundred and thirty nine, when
he the said Zephaniah Kingsley took or caused them to
be taken to Hayti [Haiti] an Island without and beyond
the limit of this Territory formerly called St. Domingo
where they (as your Petitioner are informed and believe) have
all and each of them ever since remained and still remain:
and that they have not, nor has either returned to the Territory
And your Petitioners further shew unto your Honor
and expressly charge their belief to be, that the said Anna Madgig-
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