Estate: Estate Records of Michael Hollick (1813): Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania

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Letters of Administration for the estate of Michael HOLLICK, Phila., PA, 1813, File 
#127, Book L, Folio 88.

On the 14th Day of June, 1813 personally appeared the within named Sarah 
Cambridge, who being duly sworn doth depose and say, that she believes that Michael 
Hollick died without a Will and that she will well and truly administer all the every the 
Goods of the said deceased, and pay his Debts as far as his Goods will extend: that she 
will exhibit a true, full and perfect Inventory of the Goods of the said deceased, and render 
a true account of her Administration in the Register's Office, when she shall be thereunto 
required: And also, that
      [paper torn here, at the fold; 2 lines missing]
day of June 1814.  And all the rest and residue of the said Goods, Chattels and Credits 
which shall be found remaining upon the said Administration Account (the same being first 
examined and allowed of by the orphan's Court of the City and County of Philadelphia) 
shall deliver and pay unto such Person or persons respectively, as the said Orphan's 
Court by their Decree of Sentence, pursuant to the true Intent and Meaning of the several 
Law now in force in this Commonwealth, shall limit and appoint.  And if it shall hereafter 
appear that any last Will and Testament was made by the said Deceased, and the Executor 
or Executors therein named do exhibit the same into the said Register's Office, making 
request to have it allowed and approved accordingly: And if then the above bounden 
Sarah, Administratrix as aforesaid, being thereunto required, do render and deliver the said 
Letters of Administration (Approbation of such Testament being first had and made in the 
said Register's Office) then this Obligation to be void and of non Effect, or else to remain 
in full Force and virtue.
[Signatures of:]
Sarah (her X mark) Cambridge
Daniel Meyers
Henry May
Sealed and delivered in the presence of}    Sam. Bryan [his signature]

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Know all men by these Presents, That we Sarah Cambridge of the City of Philad., 
Widow, Daniel Myers of the said City, Cabinet maker and Henry May of the said City, 
Hatter, are held and firmly bound unto the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, in the sum of 
One hundred Dollars to be paid to the said Commonwealth: To the which payment well 
and truly to her made, we bind ourselves, jointly and severally, for and in the whole, our 
Heirs, Executors and Administrators, and each and every of them firmly by these Presents.  
Sealed with our Seals.  Dated the fourteenth Day of June in the Year of our Lord One 
Thousand Eight Hundred and thirteen.
The Condition of this Obligation is such, That if the above bounden Sarah 
Cambridge, Administratrix of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of Michael 
Hollick, of the City of Philad., Cordwainer, deceased, do make, or cause to be made, a 
true and perfect Inventory of all and singular the Goods, Chattels and Credits of the said 
Deceased, which have or shall come to the Hands, Possession or Knowledge, of her the 
said Sarah, Administratrix as aforesaid, or unto the Hands or Possession of any other 
Person or Persons for her and the same so made to exhibit, or cause to be exhibited into 
the Register's Office, in the county of Philadelphia, on or before the fourteenth Day of 
July next ensuing; and the same Goods, Chattels and Credits, and all other the goods, 
Chattels and Credits of the said Deceased at the Time of his Death, which at any Time 
after shall come to the hands or Possession of the said Sarah, Administratrix, as aforesaid, 
or unto the Hands or Possession of any other Person or Persons do well and truly
     [paper torn here at the fold; 1-2 lines missing]
he died possessed of, do  [paper torn at fold]  the sum [paper torn at fold]fty dollars to the 
best of her knowledge and belief.
[Signed by]
Sarah (her X mark) Cambridge
Sworn and subscribed the}
Day and Year abovesaid. }
   Coram
Sam. Bryan, Regr.