The Probate Directory, Or, An Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors.

Boston: Printed by J.T. Buckingham, 1812. Freeman's Probate Directory Freeman, Samuel. The Probate Directory; Or, An Assistant to Probate Courts, Executors, Administrators, and Guardians, Being the Laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Respecting the Estates of Testators, Intestates, And Wards. To Which are Added, A Variety of Forms, For the Use of Probate Courts, And Such Persons as May Have Business to Transact Therein. Together with a Comprehensive Alphabetical Index to the Laws and the Forms. Enlarged and Improved. Boston: Printed by J.T. Buckingham, 1812. xii, [13]-264 pp. 12mo. (6-1/2" x 4"). Contemporary calf, lettering piece and gilt fillets to spine. Light rubbing to boards, moderate rubbing to extremities and spine, wear to head of spine, corners bumped, early library bookplate to front pastedown, printed text of 1821 Massachusetts probate law to rear pastedown. Moderate toning to interior, light foxing to a few leaves, brief annotations and underlining in a few places in an early hand. $50. * Third edition. Freeman represented the Province of Maine in the Massachusetts legislature and was a probate judge. Cohen, Bibliography of Early American Law 4685.…