____________________________________________________________________________ March Term 1822. William Trimble Esq. presented the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, which was proven by the subscribing witnesses before the courts, and letters testamentary ordered to be granted to the executors named in said Will by their entering with bond and security in the penal sum of two thousand dollars. ____________________________________________________________________________ Clark county, Arkansas, Circuit Court Minutes, March Term 1822, pages 44-45. ____________________________________________________________________________ July Term 1834. On motion, it is ordered that Letters of Administration on the Estate of Richard Wood, deceased, be granted unto John Wilson upon his executing Bond in the Clerk's office of this Court with William Gentry, James Ward and James G. Melson, as his securities, in the penal sum of fourteen hundred dollars, conditioned as the Law directs. Whereupon the said John Wilson was qualified as the Law directs. Ordered that Court adjourn until nine o'clock tomorrow morning. A.H. Rutherford ____________________________________________________________________________ Clark county, Arkansas, Circuit Court Minutes, July Term 1834, page 149. ____________________________________________________________________________ United States of America, Territory of Arkansas, County of Clark, Clark County Court July Term 1834 To All To Whom These Presents Shall Come, Greeting: Whereas, on the day of the date, hereof, the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, was produced in our said Court by John Wilson, appointing Jacob Wood and John Wood, executors, which said Will is duly proven and stands of Record in this Court and the said executors having deceased. Therefore, on motion of the said John Wilson, letters testamentary were granted to him on the estate of the said Richard Wood, deceased. Whereof, there is hereby granted unto the said John Wilson, as executor of the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, according to the true intent and meaning thereof, ... to administer all and singular the good(s), chattels, rights, credits, __________ and effects of the said Richard Wood, deceased, according to law. In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as clerk and affixed the seal of Office, this 14th day of July, A.D. 1834, and of the Independance of the United States, the fifty ninth. Isaac Ward, Clk. ____________________________________________________________________________ Territory of Arkansas, Sct. County of Clark, I, Isaac Ward, Clerk of the County Court of said county and Exofficio recorder therefor, do hereby certify that the foregoing letters testamentary granted to John Wilson on the Last Will and Testament of Richard Wood, deceased, were this day duly recorded in my office on the 1st day of August, 1834, before the same were delivered to the Executor. Witness, my hand as Clerk & exofficio Recorder, this 1st day of August, 1834. Isaac Ward, Clk. & exofficio recorder. ____________________________________________________________________________ Clark county, Arkansas Will Book A, pages 34-35. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.