A Florida Territory Document Concerning An Estate Dispute

(FLORIDA). DS. 1pg. December 26, 1843. Escambia County, Florida Territory. A handwritten legal document concerning an estate dispute. It was signed by a clerk and docketed on the verso by several other parties, including U.S. Marshal for the District of E. Florida John Beard. “To the Marshals of the Territory of Florida, Greeting We command you that of the goods and Chattels Lands and tenements of John N Stockton deceased in the hands of William T Stockton administrator to be administered you cause to be made the sum of one thousand seven hundred and thirty three dollars and forty seven cents for his principal and interest there on up to the eight day of December 1843 and eight per cent interest thereon until paid which John Campbell lately in our Superior Court for the County of Escambia in the western District of Florida recovered against the said William T Stockton administrator as aforesaid and the further sum of three dollars and eighty-seven cents Which to the said John Campbell was adjudged for his costs by him about his suit in this behalf expanded where of the said William T Stockton as administrator aforesaid in Convict as appears to us of record and failing the goods and chattels of the said John N C Stockton deceased … And you are further commanded that you have the said sum of money in one hundred and twenty days from the date hereof before our said Court at the Court House in said County to render to the said John Campbell to satisfy and pay the debt and costs aforesaid …” Florida became a state in 1845. The document is in very good condition with minor faults.