Henry Thomas Graves, 1900

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EPISCOPAL WILL Peel 1900 #263 FHL Film #0106536:
The humble petition of Thomas Joshua Graves of Peel Timber Merchant,
Elizabeth Jane Graves, Christian Ann Graves, Thomas Arthur Wood, and
Catherine Wood his wife all of Peel aforesaid.
Sheweth:  Henry Thomas Graves of Peel aforesaid Timber Merchant died
on or about the 13th day of March 1900 intestate.
It is necessary that administration of the estate of the said Henry
Thomas Graves should be granted to some fit and proper person or persons and
your petitioners are desirous that such administration
should be granted to your petitioner Thomas Joshua Graves.
Wherefore petitioners humbly pray a hearing hereof and that your Honor may
be pleased to grant Letters of Administration of the estate of the said
Henry Thomas Graves to the said Thomas Joshua Graves and petitioners will
pray.      Richard Seling for petrs

In the matter of the estate of Henry Thomas Graves of the town of Peel
merchant deceased.
Notice is hereby given that Thomas Joshua Graves and others entered
into an agreement with Elizabeth Jane Graves and others and that such
agreement bears date the second day of June 1902 and is filed in the
Registry for Deeds along with the will of Henry Graves deceased probate
whereof was granted the 22nd day of April 1864.
This ninetheenth day of January 1915

At a court held at Peel the 26th day of November 1900
Upon hearing this petition in presence of the parties or their advocates,
and it being proved that Henry Thomas Graves late of this town of Peel -
Timber Merchant - of on or about the 13th day of March 1900 departed this
life a bachelor and intestate.
This court hath decreed Thomas Joshua Graves of the said town of Peel,
Timber Merchant, a brother of the deceased, administrator of all and
singular the personal estate and effects of the said deceased and
accordingly he is sworn well and truly to administer the said estate and
effects of the said deceased by paying his just debts and funeral
expenses so far forth as the said Estate and Effects will extend, and the
law bind him and distributing the residue according to law, and to return
to the proper registry a full, true, and perfect Inventory of all and
singular the said estate and effects, with an accurate account of his
administration thereof, when thereunto lawfully required.  S. Stevenson
Moore.
Thomas Joshua Graves Timber Merchant
Elizabeth Jane Graves
Cottier Graves Accountant of Peel entered into bond for Henry Thomas Graves.
26 Nov 1900.