11/13/1855 · CERTIFICATE · book 8 page 124 doc 10761

124 State of Rhode Island &c Washington Co Charles Town Nov 6th 1855 Personally appeared William P. Browning and saveh this wife signes and sealng this within instrument and acknowledge the same to be their free act and deed Before me Charles Toone Town Clerk Recorded Nov 10th 1855 by Charles Toone T Clerk It a Court of Probate of District Sotton sampled Sept 18th 1855 Before the petitioners of James Boy Gray custodian of the person and estate of, Margot L Boy, Olive A Boy, Simon Stevens S Boy, Frances S Boy, Minor Children of the late Charles Boy Sr representing that the Estate of said Charles Boy Brother to L Boy d was seized in fee of a piece of land situated in the town of Eastoning belonging to said Christopher S Boy and that said land was then subject to a Mortgage for the sum of three thousand Hundred Dollars that the person estate of said Boy by the sum of fourteen thousand and Seventy ten dollars was therefore insufficient to pay the claims against the estate of said Boy by the sum of fourteen thousand and Seventy ten dollars and that she is entitled to the care of Minor Boy of these three children and to this said estate and that the residue thereof after paying the said Mortgage and the said claims and debts leaving her Poor however to said Minor that it would be for the interest of said Minor witness the entire residue of said as a part of it would cause the sole by the Administration to step pay the said Mortgage and other claims on this said estate as the said estate of said Boy together would be a better protection for said Minor in separate parcels and as the sole is unfortunate and cannot be conducted productively without a large sum of Cash the condition of said Minor would warrant and prompting that if may be authorized and empowered to make sale of this said minor interest of public or private sale in this said town and to invest the proceeds of such sale in other Real estate or in Mortgage on Real estates or in pro ductive stocks under the direction of this Court the same being again read and it appearing to the satisfaction of the Court that due notice has been given thereon or was ordered and according now laid and referred to this Court for consideration the same is now taken into consideration now no person opposing to object thereof and it appearing to the Court that the representation and said Petition are true and it is the judgment of the Court it is for the interest of said Minor that said Petition be allowed to be so and the proceeds invested as prayed for therefore it is ordered that she be so and public auction whetherfor it is ordered and decreed by this Court that the Person of said Petition hereby the same is hereby granting and that said Minor interest be and same said Guardian in his capacity hereby is authorized and empowered to make sale of said Public auction the interest of said Minor in such form and that the proceeds of said sale to be invested in other Real estate or in Mortgage on Real estate or in pro ductive Stocks or in such other manner as may be by this Court directed and that James Boy Gray custodian give bond in the sum of ten thousand pounds tied with Mortgage to L Boy have George M Mason sureties to insure the proceeds thereof as aforesaid And before any sale of Auction the said Guardian shall give due notice thereof by advertisement in some Public Newspaper printed in this state for four successive weeks as the law Directs this is executed and reviewed by this Court a True Copy Asst Boj B Howard Recorded Nov 13th 1855 by Charles Toone T Clerk Probate Clerk