Estate of Richard Wood

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                               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.                                                            
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Clark county, Arkansas, Circuit Court Minutes, March Term 1822, pages 44-45. 
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                               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                                
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Clark county, Arkansas, Circuit Court Minutes, July Term 1834, page 149.     
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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.                               
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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.                           
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Clark county, Arkansas Will Book A, pages 34-35.                             
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