HAMPSHIRE, ss.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
By the Honorable SAMUEL HENSHAW, Esq. Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c.
for and within the County of Hampshire, in the Commonwealth aforesaid.
To Mrs. Persis Sheldon of Deerfield in the County and Commonwealth
aforesaid.
GREETING:
TRUSTING in your care and fidelity, I do by these presents, pursuant to the
power and authority
to me granted, in and by an act of the General Assembly of the said Commonwealth,
nominate and
appoint you to be Guardian unto Seth Sheldon & Polly Sheldon minors
children and heirs of John Sheldon
late of Deerfield in said County, deceased, with full power and authority
to ask, demand, sue for, recover, receive and take into your custody, all &
singular such part & portion of estate as accrues to them in right
of their Father
or which by any other way or means whatsoever doth of right appertain or belong
to them and
to manage, employ and improve the same for their best profit and advantage,
and to render a plain
and true account of your guardianship upon oath, so far as the law will charge
you therewith, when you
shall be lawfully required, and pay and deliver such and so much of the said
estate, as shall be remaining upon your account (the same being first examined
and allowed by the Judge or Judges, for the time being, of Probate, &c.)
unto the said Minors when they shall arrive at full age, or otherwise
as the said Judge or Judges, by his or their decree or sentence, pursuant to
law shall limit and appoint.
In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand, and seal of the said Court of
Probate. Dated at Deerfield the sixth day of January
Anno Domini 1807.
Samuel Henshaw |