Kent County, Delaware - Court: Benjamin Graham
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			Probate document for
			  Benjamin Graham

     To the Orphan’s Court of Kent County. The petition of Thomas P. Reynolds
administrator of and singular [thu?] goods and chattel rights and credits which
were of Benjamin Graham estate of said county [Dec?] Respectively Represents,
     That the said Benjamin Graham died intestate on or about the 5 May A.D. 
1837, leaving to survive him a widow named Mariam who since the decease of her 
said husband married and is now the wife of Thomas Sipple and three children 
vis: George Graham, Mary Graham and Thomas Graham, are residents of the state 
of Delaware. That the said Benjamin Graham was at the time of his death seized
in his demesne as of fee [-] No. 1, four fifths parts of a tract of land lying
in Murderkill and Mispillion Hundred, in said county containing one hundred and
twenty acres more or less, adjoining land of the heirs of George T. [Fisher?], 
Dennis M. Ridgely and others. (That the said Mariam wife of the said Thomas 
Sipple owns the remaining equal fifth part of this tract) No. 2. A right and 
interest not precisely known in a tract of land situated in Mispillion hundred
in said County, containing on the whole forty acres adjoining lands of Benjamin
Potter, Joseph Graham and others. (The persons entitled with the said Benjamin
Graham, the intestate, in the tract, are Joseph Graham, Samuel Graham, and 
Reuben Murphy who married Mary Graham, the said Joseph resides in Arkansas and 
the said Samuel Graham & Reuben Murphy and wife reside in the state of Ohio.)
And No. 3 a tract of land containing five acres more or less, situated in 
Mispillion hundred in said County, adjoining land of Joseph Graham, the heirs 
of Charles Buckmaster, & others.  That the said Thomas [Ginnes?] is tenant in
possession of No. 1, a certain Charles Turner of No. 2 and a certain Andrew 
Anderson of No. 3. That the personal estate of the said Intestate is 
insufficient for the payment of his debts. That it will be necessary to sell a
part if not the whole of the herein before described lands and tenements for 
said purpose.
     That your petitioner has given the normal notices required by the order of 
this Court to the parties interested, and to the tenants in possession of said 
lands and premises of the intestate of his intention to apply for the sale of 
the whole or such part of the real estate aforesaid as will be necessary to 
settle the debts due and outstanding against the same, which he is ready to 
remove.
     He therefore prays the County to grant an Order for said purpose agreeably
to the direction of the Act of the General Assembly in such case made and 
provided. Thomas P. Reynolds, Admin.

Mar. 29 1842, Order made for the sale of Nos. 2 & 3 subject to the widows right
of Dower.

Sale poster dated March 29, 1842, announces Public sale of land at Masten’s 
Corner, in Mispillion Hundred, on the 14th of May next.