Amanuensis Monday - Order for Inventory of Alvina M. Seaver's Estate

Genea-blogger John Newmark (who writes the excellent TransylvanianDutch blog) started a Monday blog theme many months ago called Amanuensis Monday. What does "amanuensis" mean? John offers this definition:

"A person employed to write what another dictates or to copy what has been written by another."

The subject today is the list of heirs-at-law to the estate of Alvina Matilda (Bradley) (Lewis) Seaver, the third wife and widow of Isaac Seaver (1823-1901).  I posted the will transcription in Amanuensis Monday - the Will of Alvina Seaver (1848-1923), and the codicil transcription in Amanuensis Monday - the Codicil of Alvina M. Seaver.  The petition to approve the will and codicil was posted in Amanuensis Monday - Petition to Approve Will of Alvina C. Seaver.

Alvina (Bradley) (Lewis) Seaver died in Clinton, Massachusetts on 20 April 1923, testate, and her probate papers are in Worcester County Probate Records, Probate Packet B-80132 (accessed and copied at Worcester County, Massachusetts Court House in 1991).  The court order to take the inventory, and the inventory schedules (typewritten entries underlined, handwritten portions in italics), are:  

The transcription is:

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS

Worcester SS.

PROBATE COURT

To William L. Bancroft

of Clinton

in said County,

GREETING:

YOU are hereby appointed to appraise, on oath, the estate and effects of
Alvina M. Seaver
late of Clinton, in said County of Worcester,
deceased, which may be in said Commonwealth. When you have performed that service, you will
deliver this order, with your doings in pursuance thereof, to Harold L. French,
the execut or of the last will and testament
of said deceased, that he may return the same to the Probate Court for said County of Worcester.

Witness my hand and the seal of said court, this fifth day of
June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twenty-three.

..................................  H.H. Atwood  Register or Probate Court

WORCESTER, SS ................. Jan. 4 A.D. 19 24.  Then the
above-named appraiser personally appeared and made oath that he would faithfully and
impartially discharge the trust reposed in h im by the foregoing order.

Before me,  Foster F. Stinveor Justice of the Peace

Pursuant to the foregoing order to me directed, I have appraised said estate as follows, to wit:

......  Amount of Personal Estate, as per schedule exhibited ............ $ 16,129.35
......  Amount of Real Estate, as per schedule exhibited ..................  $ None


................................................. William L. Bancroft...... Appraiser

Suffolk, SS. February 1 A.D. 19 24.  Then personally appeared
Harold L. French the execut or of the will of said
deceased, and made oath that the foregoing is a true and perfect inventory of all of the estate of 
said deceased that has come to h is possession or knowledge.

Before me, ..................  Arthur H.Brooks Justice of the Peace

Schedule of Personal Estate in Detail.

Deposit in Peoples Savings Bank Brockton .........................  364  59
..." ...... "  Worcester Worth Savings Institution ................. 1,543  12
..." ...... "  Fitchburg Savings Bank ................................... 1,940  14
..." ...... "  Worcester Mechanics Savings Bank .................  2,119  90
..." ...... "  Worcester Five Cents Savings Bank .................  2,039  00
..." ...... "  Worcester County Institution for Savings ..........  2,016  19
..." ...... "  Peoples Savings Bank Worcester .....................  2,130  12
..." ...... "  Gardner Savings Bank ....................................  1,139  14
..." ...... "  Winchendon Savings Bank .............................  1,213  85
..." ...... "  Clinton Savings Bank .....................................  1,573  30
Jewelry and Personal Effects ...............................................  50  00
....................................................................................__________
.................................................................................... 16, 129  35

It looks like Alvina M. Seaver was a bit of a pack rat, doesn't it?  She stashed cash in ten different banks around the Leominster area. It looks like she did very well for herself after her two husbands died.  She lived by herself for over 22 years.  It may be that she sold all of her property over those years -I will have to look for land records to determine that.

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