Bushnell Family Papers

[top left] Letter of Administration. [top right] Sold by George B. Bassett & Co., 115 Chapel-st., New Haven, Conn.

District of Westbrook, ss. Probate Court, April 8^th 1858 Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell late of Westbrook in said District, deceased.

Gustavus A. Chapman, Esq., Judge of said Court.

To John C. Bushnell & Ezra L. Bushnell

Greeting:

WHEREAS, Samuel P. Bushnell late of Westbrook in said District, deceased, having while he lived, and at the time of death, Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate in said District, now lately died intestate; by virtue whereof, the power of Administration and full disposition of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate of the said deceased, and also the hearing, examining and allowing the accounts of the Administration thereof, appertains unto me: and being desirous that the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate of the said deceased, shall be well and truly administered, and having full confidence in your fidelity, care and good management;

THEREFORE, I do by these presents, hereby commit unto you full power to administer the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate of the said deceased, which to him while he lived, and at the time of his death, did appertain; and to pay all debts in which the deceased stood bound, so far as such Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate can extend, according to the value thereof: and to make a true and perfect inventory of all, and singular, the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate of said deceased, and to exhibit the same into the Registry of the said Court of Probate, on or before the 8^th day of October next ensuing; and also to render to the said Court a true and plain account of your Administration, on or before the 8^th day of April which will be Anno Domini 1859. And I do by these presents, ordain, depute and constitute you Administrator of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Credits and Estate aforesaid.

[Red wax seal on lower left]

By order of the Court, James A. Stannard Clerk.

[Sideways on left edge] Duplicate.

Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell

To Henry M. Stannard, Judge of Probate for the District of Westbrook –

We Ezra L. Bushnell of the City of Brooklyn in the State of New York and John C. Bushnell and Phebe Elizabeth Post wife of John Post of the Town of Westbrook, Connecticut, County of Middlesex, State of Connecticut, being the lawful heirs of Samuel P. Bushnell, deceased, late of said Westbrook, having died intestate, and letters of Administration having been granted on the Estate of said deceased, by the Probate Court for the District of Westbrook on the 8^th day of April A. 1858, and being legally capable of making a division of said Estate, do hereby mutually agree, for ourselves, our heirs, Executors, Administrators, and assigns, to the annexed distribution of said Estate, and bind ourselves, our heirs, Executors, Administrators, and assigns, to abide by said distribution, and we further bind ourselves, our heirs, Executors, Administrators and as assigns, to pay all lawful debts that may be due on said Estate, and to fully indemnify the Administrator on said Estate from all debts against said Estate and from liability on their Administration Bond and agree to save them & their heirs or assigns harmless from all responsibility on their said bond –

January 18^th 1860

Ezra L. Bushnell John C. Bushnell Phebe Elizabeth Post

We distribute to Ezra L. Bushnell, One Third of the Real Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased consisting of one Store in Sacramento City, California valued at Six Thousand Dollars One Third – $2000.

We distribute to John C. Bushnell One Third of the Real Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased, consisting of one Store in Sacramento City, California valued at Six Thousand Dollars One Third – $2000.

We distribute to Phebe Elizabeth Post, One Third of the Real Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell, Deceased consisting of One Store in Sacramento City, California valued at Six Thousand Dollars One Third – $2000.

We distribute to Ezra L. Bushnell, One Third of the Personal Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased consisting of Five Hundred Dollars in Sacramento Scrip One third – $166.67 Also in Cash Fifteen Thousand Dollars one third – $5000.00

We distribute to John C. Bushnell, One Third of the Personal Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased consisting of Five Hundred Dollars in Sacramento Scrip One third – $166.67 Also in Cash Fifteen Thousand Dollars one third – $5000.00

We distribute to Phebe Elizabeth Post, One Third of the Personal Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased consisting of Five Hundred Dollars in Sacramento Scrip one third – $166.67 Also in Cash Fifteen Thousand Dollars one third – $5000.00

Ezra L. Bushnell John C. Bushnell Phebe Elizabeth Post

I, Isaac N. Spencer Clerk of the Court of Probate within and for the District of Westbrook hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy of record –

[Yellow WESTBROOK DISTRICT PROBATE seal on left side next to the following text] In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and the seal of said Court this 5^th day of September 1860.

Isaac N. Spencer Clerk

Copy of the distribution of the Estate of Samuel P. Bushnell Deceased from the Second Book of West Brook Probate Record pages 272 & 273

New York April 29, 1859

Brother John,

I write you a few lines to say that we are all as well as usual, and hope this may find you all the same. as I have not heard from you for some days I take it for granted that your Children are getting better which I hope is the case. My Love to Mother and to your family. I think I promised you that I would make up a Statement of Our Brother's Estate and in order to do so and bring everything to a close to the first of January 1859. I have credited the Estate with the amt. [amount] taken by me of (Personal Effects) $338.75¢ and taken by you $199.44¢ and by Elizabeth $284.37¢ – and have charged back the amt [amount] to yourself and Elizabeth – I have then made up the a/c [account] to the first of January last and the amount now in my hands belonging to the Estate after making up the Interest to that date is $24,745.48¢ –