Lincoln County Probate Records

Padshall Knights, late of Boothbay, mariner. Susanna Knights, of Boothbay, widow, Adm'x, 20 June, 1799. Edward Emerson and William Emerson, both of Edgecomb, sureties. Inventory by Thomas Boyd, Benjamin McFarland and David Webber, all of Boothbay, $453. William McCobb and John Leishman, both of Boothbay, commissioners to examine claims. Account filed 6 May, 1803, at which date the administratrix had become the wife of George Gilbert. [X, 11-12.] Widow's dower set off by John Leishman and Alfred Wadsworth, both of Boothbay, and Edward Emerson, of Edgecomb, 1803. [X, 277.]

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 347, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.