Source: 
Crawford County, PA
Orphans Court records
Vol. A-B
Page 69

Petition of Administration of Patrick Gilleland, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1805

(In the margin)
Petition of admi’r
Of Pat’k Gilleland,
deceased, for
Sale of Land.

   To the Honorable Jesse Moore Esq. President and his associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Crawford, now comprising an Orphans’ Court for said county of August Term, 1805.
   The petition of J. W. Hunter, administrator of Patrick Gilleland, late of Crawford county, dec’d at the time of his death who died intestate _
   Humbly sheweth_
                            That the intestate left no issue to the knowledge of your petition, and that his personal estate is insufficient for the payment of his debts, as by the account herewith produced appears – that the said intestate died seized in his demesne as of fee of and in a certain messuage and tract of land situate in Venango township, adjoining lands of Enos Cole on the North, and Jehiel Terrel on the East containing one hundred and fifty acres be the same more or less.
    Your petitioner prays your honors to grant him an order to make sale of the said land with the appurtenances for the payment of his said debts_
    And he will pray, xe.
                                                                                                                  J. W. Hunter, adm’r.

                                                                                            -transcription by Kate Maynard, 2013

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