WILSON-HOOVER - 1831
John Wilson
Transcribed Letter - October 5, 1831 - HOOVER / WILSON / SHORTRIDGE / PROVOTT / JONES
Letter transcribed as written:
Crawfordsville Ia 6 (manuscript postmark)
Oct 5
To the Sheriff of Tippecanoe
County
Lafayette
To care of --
S. Hoover Clerk
Filed 21st Nov 1831
John Wilson clk
Came to hand october
the 10th 1831.
Morgan Shortridge
Sheriff of TC
Paid 6 (manuscript)
Clerk of the Court of Probate
for Montgomery County
Crawfordsville
Indiana
LAFAYETTE IA NOV 3 (black CDS postmark)
Executed on John
Provott on the 14th day
October 1831
M Shortridge Sheriff
of TC
Montgomery Probate Court
November Term 1831.
Elizabeth Jones
John Jones &
John Provott.
Administrators of
William Jones Decd.
Scitation
Ret 1st day of Term
The State of Indiana } Set.
Montgomery County } The State of Indiana to the Sheriff of Tippecanoe
County Greeting, We Command you to Summons Elizabeth Jones, John
Jones, & John Provott, Administrators of William Jones Decd if they may
be found in your bailiwick to be and appeare before the Judge
of our Montgomery Probate Court, on the first day of the nesct Term, to be
holden at the Court house in the Town of Crawfordsville in Said County
on the Third monday of November nesct, being the Twenty first day
of Said month, to Show cause to our Said Court, if any they can
why they have not Settled Said Estate, and have you there then
this writ
Witness John Wilson Clerk of Said Probate Court
of Crawfordsville, and the Seal thereof as adopted
and used, this 28th day of September In the year
of Our Lord one Thousand Eight hundred and
Thirty One
John Wilson Clerk
{ M. P. C. }
{ Seal }
Executed on John
Provott on the four
teenth day of oct.
AD 1831
Executed on Elizabeth
Jones on the 26th
day of oct. 1831
also Executed on
John Jones on the
28th day of oct.
AD 1831
Morgan Shortridge
Sheriff of TC
Sheriff fees
service on 3 persons
__________ $1.12 ½
Miles 25 at 6 1.50
Return 10
$2.72 ½
M Shortridge
Sheriff