Page 110-111 Name: Thomas Lewis Location: Middletown
Invt. A DIGEST OF THE EARLY CONNECTICUT PROBATE RECORDS.
1742 to 1745.
Page 110-111 Name: Thomas Lewis Location: Middletown
Invt. £210-12-00. Taken 16 November, 1743, by Jonathan Wood and Ebenezer Clark.
Court Record, Page 34--6 December, 1743: This Court grant Adms. on the estate of Thomas Lewis and Shubael Lewis of Middletown decd. (father and son) unto Elnathan Rowley of Colchester, who gave bonds with George Sexton, Jr., of sd. Colchester, for £ 500 for their faithfull Adms. Exhibited an inventory, which is approved, ordered to be recorded and kept on file. Also, the sd. Adms. informed the Court that the estate of the sd. deceased was insolvent, and prays commissioners may be appointed to adjust a claim of creditors: Whereupon this Court do appoint and impower Jonathan Wood and Ebenezer Clark of Middletown to receive and adjust the claim of the creditors. Also, this Court have set out a list of moveables of the estate of the sd. decd. to Mary Lewis, widow of the sd. decd. The particulars amount to the sum of £13-12-00, which account is on file.
Page 51--11 December, 1744: Whereas, the General Assembly holden at New Haven on the 2nd Thursday of October, 1744, appointed Elnathan Rowley of Colchester to sell so much of the real estate of Thomas Lewis, late of Middletown decd., as should procure the sum of £82-12-01 bills of credit of the old tenor, together with incident charges arising, and by the direction of the Court of Probate in Hartford County: whereupon this Court directs the sd. Adms. to make sale of the lands of the sd. decd., viz., one certain piece of land lying in the three-mile division of land on the east side of the Connecticut River in sd. Middletown, being the 38th lottment of sd. division, containing 35 1-2 acres and 30 rods of land, or so much of sd. land as will procure sd. sum and charges of sale. And the Court directs the Adms. to set up advertisements in some publick places in Middletown 20 days before the sale, signifying that there is to be sold such piece or parcell of land, such a day and time of day, to the highest bidder at public vandue and at the beat of the drum, and make report to this Court.210-12-00. Taken 16 November, 1743, by Jonathan Wood and Ebenezer Clark.
Court Record, Page 34--6 December, 1743: This Court grant Adms. on the estate of Thomas Lewis and Shubael Lewis of Middletown decd. (father and son) unto Elnathan Rowley of Colchester, who gave bonds with George Sexton, Jr., of sd. Colchester, for £ 500 for their faithfull Adms. Exhibited an inventory, which is approved, ordered to be recorded and kept on file. Also, the sd. Adms. informed the Court that the estate of the sd. deceased was insolvent, and prays commissioners may be appointed to adjust a claim of creditors: Whereupon this Court do appoint and impower Jonathan Wood and Ebenezer Clark of Middletown to receive and adjust the claim of the creditors. Also, this Court have set out a list of moveables of the estate of the sd. decd. to Mary Lewis, widow of the sd. decd. The particulars amount to the sum of £13-12-00, which account is on file.
Page 51--11 December, 1744: Whereas, the General Assembly holden at New Haven on the 2nd Thursday of October, 1744, appointed Elnathan Rowley of Colchester to sell so much of the real estate of Thomas Lewis, late of Middletown decd., as should procure the sum of £82-12-01 bills of credit of the old tenor, together with incident charges arising, and by the direction of the Court of Probate in Hartford County: whereupon this Court directs the sd. Adms. to make sale of the lands of the sd. decd., viz., one certain piece of land lying in the three-mile division of land on the east side of the Connecticut River in sd. Middletown, being the 38th lottment of sd. division, containing 35 1-2 acres and 30 rods of land, or so much of sd. land as will procure sd. sum and charges of sale. And the Court directs the Adms. to set up advertisements in some publick places in Middletown 20 days before the sale, signifying that there is to be sold such piece or parcell of land, such a day and time of day, to the highest bidder at public vandue and at the beat of the drum, and make report to this Court.
