Daniel Buskirk, Register for the Probate of Wills and granting Letters of Administration, in and for the County of Berks, to Mary Lacey, Widow of Joseph Lacey late of the city of Reading Berks County, deceased.
Greeting.
Whereas, the said Joseph Lacey lately died intestate, (as is affirmed,) having whilst he lived, and at the time of his death, divers goods, chattels, rights and credits within the said county, by means whereof the full disposition and power of granting the Administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the said county, and also the auditing the accounts, calculations and reckonings of the said Administration, and final dismission from the same to me is manifestly known to belong. I, desiring that the goods, chattels, rights and credits of the said deceased may be well and truly administered, do hereby grant unto you the said Mary Lacey in whose fidelity in this behalf I very much confide, full power by the tenure of these presents, to administer the goods, chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the said county; and also to ask, collect, levy, recover and receive the credits whatsoever of the said deceased, which at the time of his death were owing or to him did any ways belong, and to pay the debts in which the said deceased stood obliged, so far forth as the goods, chattels, rights and credits will extend, according to their rate and order of law, especially of well and truly administering the goods, rights and credits of the said deceased, and make a true and perfect inventory thereof and exhibiting the same into the Register's Office, at the City of Reading, in the County of Berks, at or before the 30 day of Oct. next, and render a true and just account, calculation or reckoning of the said administration, at or before the 30 day of Sept. in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-eight.
And also, I do by these presents, ordain, constitute and appoint you the said Mary Lacey Administratrix of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights and credits, which were of the said deceased, within the limits aforesaid, saving harmless and forever indemnifying me, and all other officers against all persons whatsoever, by reason of your administration aforesaid, and saving to all others their rights, and well and truly observing the law relating to Collateral Inheritance.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office, at Reading, the 30 day of Sept. in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-seven.
Daniel Buskirk, Reg.
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