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� [Pre-printed form with handwritten insertions and deletions] TO ALL PEOPLE TO WHOM THESE PRESENTS SHALL COME

Alfred Johnson Jr [handwritten] Esquire, Judge of the Probate of Wills, &c in the County of [phrase italicized] Hancock [handwritten] within the [italicized] Commonwealth of Massachusetts [stricken] State of Maine [handwritten] SENDETH GREETINGS

WHEREAS it hath been made to appear to me, by the Inquisition of the Selectmen of the town of Frankfort [handwritten] taken and returned to me as the law directs, that Hatevil Colson [handwritten] of said town of Frankfort [handwritten] is a no compos mental or insane person is also of my own knowledge of the part [handwritten]

Therefore, Know Ye [italicized] That I the said Judge, trusting in the care and fidelity of Philo H. Washburn of said Frankfort Esquire [handwritten] have, and by these Presents do pursuant to the power and authority to me granted in and by an act or law of the said Commonwealth [stricken] State [handwritten insertion] entitled, "An Act empowering the Judges of Probate to appoint Guardians to Minors and others,") assign and appoint the said Philo H. Washburn [handwritten] to be guardian of the said Hatevil Colson [handwritten] hereby directing and empowering him[handwritten] in said capacity, to take care, as well of the person as estate, both real and personal, of the said Hatevil Colson [handwritten] and to make a just and true inventory of the said estate, to be exhibited into the Register's Office of Probate for the county aforesaid: and the said guardian shall improve, frugally, and without waste and destruction, the estate afore-mentioned, and apply the annual profits and incomes thereof for the comfortable maintenance and support of the said Hatevil Colson [handwritten] and also of his [handwritten] household or family (if any such he[handwritten] have) And the said guardian is hereby empowered to settle accounts, receive and (if need be) sure for and recover