State of _______,}
County of ______}ss

The State of _______, to all to whom these presents shall come or may
concern, and especially to _______ of the county of _______ and state of
_______, greeting: 

Know ye, that whereas, _______ late of the county of _______ and state of
_______, lately died testate, and being at the time of his decease a
_______ of said county, by means whereof the proving and recording his
last will and testament, and granting administration of all and singular
the goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate whereof he died possessed,
and also the auditing, allowing and finally discharging the account
thereof, is within the jurisdiction of the probate court of said county of
_______.

And whereas, on the _____ day of _______, A.D. 18_____, at _______ in said
county, before the Hon. _______, probate judge of said county, the last
will and testament of the said _______ (a copy whereof is hereunto
annexed) was proved, allowed and admitted to probate:  And, whereas,
_______, executor named and appointed in and by said last will and
testament, has given bond, as required by law, for the faithful execution
of said trust, which said bond has been approved by said judge, and filed
in the aforesaid probate court; we therefore, reposing full confidence in
your integrity and ability, have granted and by these presents do grant
the administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, rights,
credits and estate of the said deceased, and any way concerning his said
last will and testament, unto you, the said _______ executor aforesaid: 
Hereby authorizing and empowering you to take and have possession of all
the real and personal estate of said deceased, and to receive the rents,
issues and profits thereof, until said estate shall have been settled, or
until delivered over by order of said court, to the heirs or devisees of
said deceased; and to demand, collect, recover and receive all and
singular, the debts, claims, demands, rights, and chooses in action, which
to the said deceased while living and at the time of his death did belong;
and requiring you to keep in good tenantable repair, all houses, buildings
and fences on said real estate, which may and shall be under your control,
and in accordance with your bond approved and filed as aforesaid, to make
and return into the probate court of said county of _______ within three
months, a true and perfect inventory of all the goods, chattels, rights,
credits and estate of said deceased, which shall come to your possession
or knowledge, or to the possession of any other person for you; to
administer, according to law, and to said last will and testament, all the
goods, chattels, rights, credits and estate of the said deceased, which
shall at any time come to your possession or to the possession of any
other person for you, and out of the same to pay and discharge all debts,
legacies and charges chargeable on the same, or such dividends thereon as