PETITION IN THE CASE OF ANANIAS & PHILIP MOWRY, ADMINISTRATORS OF THE GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS OF ABIGAIL SMITH, DECEASED VS. REUBEN SMITH AND ZILPHA SMITH, HIS WIFE. "TO THE HONOURABLE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE HOLDEN AT EAST GREENWICH ON THE LAST MONDAY IN JANUARY, 1795." REUBEN SMITH, A LABOURER, AND HIS WIFE ZILPHA, CLAIM PAYMENT FROM THE ESTATE FOR WORK PERFORMED AND OWED BY THE DECEASED. JUDGMENT FOR THE ESTATE; SMITHS APPEAL. COURT ORDERS NEW TRIAL TO BE SCHEDULED AT A FUTURE DATE.
[Rhode Island: 1795]. Folio, 7-3/4" x 12-1/2". [2], [1 - blank], [1-docketed] pp. Completed in legible ink manuscript. Docketed, "Petition A. & P. Mowry vs. R. Smith et alias. Copy 1/4." Old folds with splitting along several folds [handful of small archival tape repairs on third blank page, no text loss]. Else Good+.
Philip Mowry [1738-1828], a farmer and Quaker, married Elizabeth Newell and owned a farm in Smithfield on the south side of Woonsocket Hill. A Town Council member, he helped to settle estates and was a member of the Society of Friends. His brother, Ananias Mowry, Jr. [1740-1818], a farmer and Justice of the Peace, was married Abigail Paine. They lived in Smithfield on the north side of Iron Mill Hill at the farm left to him by his father Ananias Sr. The area was known at the time as the "Mowry Neighborhood." Item #34753
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