Abbreviations used
Date May 18 1869
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper Morning Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
Quite an excitement was evinced last Thursday over the proving of the will of Thomas COATES, late of Smith's Creek (Kings Co.) before E.B. Smith, Esq., Judge of Probate. The testator died worth considerable property leaving no family of his own, but large number of near relatives.