Letters testamentary and copy of the will of Catharine Hollinshead, 1807 July 4, to Stephen Simmons, executor, Philadelphia, 1813 :
Document consists of one printed form filled in in manuscript and 15 manuscript pages. The printed form is a letters testamentary signed by Samuel Bryan, Register of the Probate of Wills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, approving the will and testament of Catharine Hollinshead, widow, deceased, and comm...
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| Summary: | Document consists of one printed form filled in in manuscript and 15 manuscript pages. The printed form is a letters testamentary signed by Samuel Bryan, Register of the Probate of Wills, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, approving the will and testament of Catharine Hollinshead, widow, deceased, and committing her "goods, chattels, rights and credits" to "Stephen Simmons, one of the surviving executors". Dated 1813 December 7 and signed: Sam. Bryan, Register. Following is a manuscript copy of the will of Catharine Hollinshead. Beneficiaries include Benjamin Say, Philadelphia physician; Peter Browne, Esquire, of Philadelphia; John Hart, druggist, Philadelphia; and Stephen Simmons of the Northern Liberties, lumber merchant. The majority of Hollinshead's assets went to her daughter Elizabeth Sober Davenport and her granddaughter Catharine Sober Davenport, with an explicit stipulation that the benefits to the female recipients were to be entirely in their control: " ... into the hands of my said granddaughter Catharine Sober Davenport for her sole and separate use and benefit during all the term of her natural life excluding her husband from all right and interest therein so that the same shall not be in his power or disposal or subject to his control or intermeddling nor liable in any way or manner whatever his debts, contracts, or engagements ... ". Beneficiaries also included three grandchildren, Catharine Sober Davenport, Samuel Davenport, and William Davenport junior (the three children of the aforesaid William Davenport and his wife, Hollinshead's daughter Elizabeth) and any other children they were to have; Rebecca Knox and Sarah Rice (daughters of Thomas Rice and Penelope, his wife deceased) and her aunts Rebecca Judah and Catharine Havard. Executors: Benjamin Say, Peter Browne, Esq., John Hart, and Stephen Simmons. Witnesses: Thomas Norton, Stephen Maxfield, Joseph Thomas |
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| Item Description: | Date of will: 1807 July 4 Docketed on page [16]: "Copy of Catharine Hollinshead's will 1813" Docketed on rear wrapper: "Stephen Simmons" and "Mr. Simmons, executor of Catharine Hollinshead belongs to Stephen Simmons" Location appears on copy of will as: Northern Liberties, City of Philadelphia in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Location appears on letters testamentary as: Philadelphia City and County, s.s Title devised by cataloger |
| Physical Description: | 1 volume (16 pages) : paper ; 33 x 20 cm |
| Access: | Collection is open for research |
| Place of Publication: | United States -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia, -- production place |