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Administration Bond
File #1585
"Know all men by these presents, that we Francis Dunn, James Adams
& Thompson Graham ... $600 ... this 30th day of January AD 1850 ...
goods, chattels and credits of James R. McDonald late of St. Louis MO deceased
.... [etc]"
[signed] Francis Dunn, James Adams, T. Graham
Attest Thomas M Clark
[Possibly grandson of John and Mary Uber McDonald of Wolf Spring/Springfield Twp. If so, probably son of David McDonald. 1850 census entry: pg. 189, Springfield Township, Nancy J McDonald 13, John S. McDonald 11, William McDonald 8, Mary M 4, in the household of William (31) and Mary T. (31) Black.]
Administration Bond
file #2464
John S. McDonald
"John Vanhorn ... $200 ... this 20th day of Aug AD 1862 ... goods,
chattels and credits of John S. McDonald ... [etc]"
[signed] John Vanhorn, R. G. Black, Albert Price
Appraisment of the Personal Estate of the late J. Scott McDonald dceased
late of the army of the US with the US with the Notes[?] & obligations
rights and priveledges of said deceased taken August 26th 1862
John vanhorn Administrator
one three year old house -------$45.00
Mercer County ss
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania September 16th 1862 Personally appeared before
the subscriber Adam Black a justice of thte Peace for said county John Walls
and James Walls and on being sworn according ot law do depose and say the
above appraisment and inventory of the Estate of the late J. S. McDonald
of Springfield late of the Army with the Moneys goods adn chattles is just
and correct to teh best of our judgment and belief. Sworn and subscribed
before me date above
Adam Black
Probate Inventory - 15 cts
[signed] James Walls, John Walls
Administrator's Bond
James Canson, S.P. Johnson and Charles Hoge, Administrators of the estate of Michael McDonald, for $8000, given 25 Oct 1869.
File # 4103 · William McDonald Sr. of Sharpsville, dec'd 1904
Administrators Bond: Elizabeth McDonald, bond of $3000., dated 4th Jan
1904.
signed: Elizabeth McDonald
J. W. Jackson
S. W. Surhane[?]
Will probate:
"Mercer County, ss.
Before me, a Register for the probate of wills, etc., in and for said county,
personally came Elizabeth McDonald who, being duly sworn according to law,
deposes and says the Wm. McDoanld late of Sharpsville deceased, died ont
eh 17th day of dec. AD 1904 [must be 1903] at or neaer the hour of 9 p.m.
on said day.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 4th day of Dec. A.D. 1904/5 [5 written
over 4]. Joseph Moorland, Register
Elizabath McDonald [signed]
[written on the margin: "66 Sharpsville --]
In the Court of Common Pleas of Mercer County, Pennsylvania. No. ____
Term, 1906
In re Estate of WILLIAM McDONALD, deceased
to the Honorable A. W. Williams, Judge of said court:
The petition of Elizabeth McDonald respectfully represents:
That she is the widow of the said William McDoanld, deceased, and that she
was appointed administrix of his estate on the fourth day of January, A.
D. 1905.
That the only heirs and next of kin of the said William McDonald are the
said Elizabeth McDonald, hi widow, Mary Elizabeth McDonald, Margaret McDonald,
Robert E. McDonald, James Charles McDonald and William H. McDonald, all
the children of said decedent.
That all of said heirs and next of kin are above the age of 21 years, and
that your petitioner has paid to each of them the full amount due each from
said estate and has received their receipts therefore, said receipts being
hereto attached and made a part hereof.
That the full amount that came into the hands of your petitioner as administratirix
was $1500 and that the claims against said estate, including funeral expenses,
amounted to $671.92, leavfng a balance in her hands for distrubution of
$828.08, which said sum has been properly distrubuted among the persons
entitled thereto, as evidenced by the receipts hereto attached.
Your petitioner further represents that all the debts against said estate
have been fully paid and that there are no claims of any nature outstanding
against said estate.
She, therefore, prays this Honorable Court to grant her a discharge as administratrix
of said estate without the expense of filing an accout.
And she will ever pray, etc.
[signed] Elizabeth McDonald
State of Indiana, County of Allen, ss.
Personally appeared before me, the subscriber, a Notary Public in and for
said county and State, Elizabeth Mcdoanld, who...[etc].
[signed] Elizabeth McDonald
Sworn ... [etc] this 5th day of March, 1906.
Lawrence M. Bauer
We the undersigned, being all the heirs and next of kin of the said William
McDonald, deceased, hereby certify that we and each of us have received
from the said Elizabeth Mcdonald, Administratrix, our proportionate shares
in full of the personal estate of the said decedent, and we repectfully
pray the Court to grant the prayer of the petitioner and discharge her as
administratrix without the expense of filing an account.
[signed] James McDonald
Mary E. McDonald
William H. McDonald
Margaret McDonald
State of Indiana, County of Allen, ss.
Elizabeth McDonald, being first duly sworn according to law, deposes and
says that since the preparations of the above petiton for discharge, Robert
E. McDonald, one of the children and heirs as above named, has been compelled
to sail for Japan, and that it will take considerable time to send said
petition for his signature; and she, therefore, requests the court to grant
her discharge, owing ot the fact that the receipt signed by the said Robert
E. McDonald for his share in the estate is hereto attached.
She hereby certifying that the signature to said receipt is genuine and
in teh proper handwriting of the said Robert E. McDoanld.
[signed] Elizabeth McDonald
Sworn ... [etc] this 5th day of March , AD 1906
Lawrence M. Bauer
Notary Public