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Wallace Hale's Early New Brunswick Probate, 1785-1835

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Reference	8361
Family Name	JOHNSON
Given Names	Sylvia
Was there a Will?	Yes
Date of Will	1801-01-14
Date Will was proved	1801-08-19
Was an inventory completed?	No
County	Saint John
Parish	City of Saint John
Abstract references Blacks, Freemen, Servants and/or Slaves?	Yes
Probate is for a woman?	Yes
Abstract references a vessel?	No
Abstract	City of Saint John, St. John County, black woman, widow of Gabriel JOHNSON of the same place. Will dated 14 January 1801, proved 19 August 1801. God-child Sylvia BRYANT, daughter of Thomas BRYANT, black woman of City of Saint John, a lot of ground with the house thereon in James Street in the City, purchased of John CHUBB. Residue of estate to Robert JENKINS, black man, Saint John, carpenter. Robert JENKINS sole executor. Witnesses: Ann SHARMAN, Mary SHARMAN, Thomas WETMORE. CODICIL dated 5 May 1801 bequeathed household furniture and wearing apparel to Hannah JENKINS, wife of Robert JENKINS.
RS number	0

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