for Estate Alexander Harwich Deced Discharged the 16 [undecipherable] # I do not find him [undecipherable: settled?] by the United States. Perhaps he was [undecipherable: settled?] with [undecipherable] [undecipherable] Please to ask Mr. Nicholson [signatures] [undecipherable — faint impressions, likely bleed-through from verso] Jacob Brown — Register for the Probate of Wills, and granting Letters of Administration, in, and for, the County of Berks. To [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] [undecipherable] WHEREAS, the said [undecipherable] lately died intestate, [undecipherable] having, while [undecipherable] lived, and at the Time of [undecipherable] Death, divers Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits within the said County, by Means whereof, the full Disposition and Power of granting the Administration of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits which were of the said Deceased within the said County, and also the auditing the Accounts, Calculations and Reckonings of the said Administration, and a final Dismission from the same to me is manifestly known to belong. I deferring that the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased may be well and truly administered, do hereby grant unto you, the said [undecipherable], in whole Fidelity in this Behalf, I very much confide, full Power by the Tenor of these Presents, to administer the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits which were of the said Deceased, within the said County; and also to ask, collect, levy, recover and receive the Credits whatsoever of the said Deceased, which, at the Time of [undecipherable] Death, were owing or to [undecipherable] any Ways belong, and to pay the Debts in which the said Deceased [undecipherable] obliged, to forth, as the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits will extend, according to their Rate and Order of Law, especially of well and truly administering the Goods, Rights and Credits of the said Deceased, and making a true and perfect Inventory thereof, and exhibiting the same into the Register's Office, at the Town of Reading, in the County of Berks, at or before the [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] next, and rendering a true and just Account, Calculation & Reckoning of the said Administration, at or before the [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] in the Year of our Lord [undecipherable] One Thousand, Seven Hundred and [undecipherable]. And also, I do by these Presents, ordain, constitute and appoint you the said [undecipherable] Administrator[undecipherable] of all and singular the Goods, Chattels, Rights and Credits which [undecipherable] of the said Deceased, within the Limits aforesaid, saving harmless, and for Ever indemnifying, me and my Officers, against all Persons whatsoever, by Reason of your Administration aforesaid, and saving to all others their Rights. In TESTIMONY whereof, I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal of Office, the [undecipherable] Day of [undecipherable] in the Year of our LORD, One Thousand, Seven Hundred & [undecipherable].