State of Maine

CUMBERLAND, SS.

Albion K. Parris Judge of the Court of Probate, within and for said County, To Sarah Philbrick of Standish in said County, Widow.

GREETING.

WHEREAS, at a Court of Probate this day held at Standish within and for said county of Cumberland, the last Will and Testament of Jonathan Philbrick late of said Standish, Gentlemen deceased has been proved, approved and allowed, a copy of which, and of the probate thereof is hereunto annexed: And whereas you are therein named and appointed by the testator, one of the [previous three words were inserted] Executors of said Will, and have taken upon you that trust, and given bond as the law directs the other Executors named in said will having declared said trust.

I do therefore, by virtue of the power and authority given to me by the laws of said State, commit unto you the execution of the same, and the administration of all the estate of said deceased, whereof he died seized and possessed; and you are to return upon oath a true and perfect Inventory of said estate into the Probate Office in said county, and within three months, and also to render a just and true account of your proceedings upon oath, within one year from the date hereof, and in all things according to law, and in fulfillment of the trust reposed in you, faithfully to discharge the duties of an Executrix of said Will.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this twenty eighth day of August in the year of our Lord eighteen hundred and twenty one

Albion K. Parris

Rerecorded by Horatio Southgate Regr

[Transcribed by Frank L. Rose]