Document Legal (Final Administrator's Account): Barnstable, ss. Probate Court Commonwealth of Massachusetts, drafted; signed by Ephraim Smith, Administrator and Freeman H. Lothrop, Register (November 22, 1887) and J. Higgins (twice), Petitioner and Justice of the Peace (November 21, 1887)

Massachusetts: Commonwealth, 1887. Illustrated by Red ruled columns on schedules. Final edition. Chain lines: 275mm; Watermark of [Capt.] Byron [Curtis] (Weston's Linen Record 18__): visible is "ston's linen". [Founded 1863, Dalton, MA]. Original folio stored in thirds with two-flap summary. Signed by multiple. 25,5x40(f20)cm. pp. [4]. Very Good. One foxed fold. Form used: "The__Account of__Execut_ of the last will and testament of" crossed out to read: " The final Account of Ephraim Smith Admin of the Estate of". With other original pencil corrections. Schedule A: 9 items=$1,944.55, Amount of personal estate according to inventory $1,084.80. Schedule B: 22 items=$1,765.12. Balance=$179.43. Franklin Howes had six children by wife Wealthy L. Longley. (Deyo/Whittemore) lists Jonathan Higgins, Esq. of Orleans (b.1816) register of probate 1858 (for 3 terms) and as an elected 3-year term commissioner for 1875. Freeman Hinkley Lothrop (b.1848) of Barnstable; 1881 register of probate; admitted to bar in 1884 (studied under Hiram Putnam Harriman b.1846, Judge of Barnstable Probate of Wills, appointed June 14, 1882). Ephraim Smith b.1824 of Chatham followed the sea, then as Boston tinware dealer who married Mercy Hawes (1849) and had three children (Deyo 1890)..