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PETITION.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
Charlestown, R. I., January 10, 1931.
TO THE HONORABLE PROBATE COURT TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN:
The undersigned petitioner, Mary T. Burdick, widow of George Burdick, late of
Charlestown, deceased, represents, that said George Burdick was possessed of
certain real estate at the time of his death, and requests the said Court of
Probate to take notice of said real estate, that said estate come to be paid
deceased, at the time of his death, not exceeding the sum of Five Thousand ($5000)
Dollars.
Signed:
Mary T. Burdick
The aforegoing petition is received and referred to the second day of February
A. D. 1931, at 2 o'clock pm, at the Probate Court Room in said Charlestown
for consideration, and it is ordered that notice thereof be published for four-
teen days, once a week in the Westerly Daily Sun, a newspaper published in
Westerly, R. I.
Linton L. Brown
Probate Clerk.
DECREE.
STATE OF RHODE ISLAND AND PROVIDENCE PLANTATIONS.
PROBATE COURT OF THE TOWN OF CHARLESTOWN:
Charlestown, R. I., February 2, 1931.
Upon consideration of the foregoing Petition:
IT IS DECREED, that real estate, not exceeding the value of the sum of FIVE
THOUSAND DOLLARS ($5000), be set off to MARY T. BURDICK, widow of the late said
George Burdick, late of said Town of Charlestown, deceased, in her own right, in
fee simple, from the estate of the late said George Burdick.
Meaning and intending, by this DECREE, to set off to the said MARY T. BURDICK,
all of the real estate, situated in said Town of Charlestown, of which
said George Burdick died seized and possessed.
Linton L. Brown
Probate Clerk.
Charlestown, R. I., December 14th, 1932.
I hereby certify the above Petition and Decree to be true copies of Petition
and Decree as are of record in the Records of Probate, in said Town of Charles-
town, in Book #10, Page 29-F.
[Signature]
Town and Probate Clerk.
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