Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1896-12-31
EroaI Entircz.

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To the Honorable o. p. Cunningham, Judge
Of Probate within and for the county Of
Hancock and state of Maine:
RESPECTFULLY represents Chas p Sis
Al by, of Aurora, Hancock county. Maine,
administrator of the estate of Roswell Silsby,
late OF said Aurora, deceased, that the said
Roswell Silsby was the owner of the follow
ing described real estate, viz: Lots No. 49,
80, So. 81, 81, SO and "a, according to sur
vey and plan of said Aurora, made by Addi-
son Dodge, surveyor, and also certain tract
or parcel of land situated in said Aurora.
bounded and described as follows, to wit:
Beginning at the northeast corner at GER
tam stone on the line between land owned by
David Silsby, formerly, and the said Roswell
Silsby, and running west - degrees north II
rods to stone; thence south 10 degrees west
13 rods to stone; thence east IL degrees
north 1t rods to stone; thence north de-
grees east 10 rods to the aforementioned
bound, containing li8 square rods more or
less. the last above described lot having been
conveyed to the said Roswell Silsby by David
Silsby by deed dated Jan 81 1862, and re-
corded in vol. lis, page 216, of the Hancock
county Maine, Registry of Deeds.
Excepting and reserving however, from the
above lots and described real estate, GER
tain tract of seventy acres more less con-
veyed by the said Roswell Silsby in his life
time to II. L. Silsby by deed of April II, 1892
recorded in vol 264, page 81, of the Hancock
Registry.
That the debts of the deceased as
nearly as can be ascertained
amount to s677 o5
And the expenses of sale and of ad-
minlstration to 1875 90
Amounting in all to $500 o.
That the personal estate is inven-
toried at 1886 81
That the personal estate is therefore
insufficient to pay the deOts of
SAID deceased and said expenses
of sale and of administration, and
it is necessary for that purpose to
sell some part of the real estate of
said deceased to raise the sum of S415 "a
That the residue of said real estate, if any,
would be greatly deprecated by sale of any
portion thereof; wherefore your petitioner
prays that he may be licensed to sell and con-
vey the whole of said real estate at public
or private sale for the payment of said debts
and expenses of sale and of administration,
together with the reversion of the widow )
dover therein, if any.
Dated this 9th day of December. a. d. 1896.
CHARLES p. SfLsBY, Administrator.
STATE OF MAINE.
HANCOCK sS:-Court of Probate, December
term, a. d. 1896,
Upon the foregoing petition, ordered: That
said petitioner give public notice to all per
sons interested, by causing copy of the pc
tition and this order thereon, to be published
three weeks successfully in the Ellsworth
American, a newspaper printed or published
in Ellsworth, in said county, that they may
appear At court of probate for said county,
to be held at Ellsworth, on the second We'd
nesday of January next, at ten of the clock
in the forenoon, to show cause, if any they
have, Why the prayer of said petitioner
should not be granted.
o. p. CCNNINGHAM, Judge.
Attest:-CHAs. p. DeRR, Register.
\ tr"e coov. itteSt:-CHAs. p. DoRR. Register,