Letitia Carson · Documents
Missouri probate, 1852–1859
The parallel administration in Platte County, Missouri, where David Carson still held land: John Robinson’s settlements, and the powers of attorney by which the Carson heirs in North Carolina, Virginia and Missouri collected their shares. The children Letitia bore in Oregon are not among them.
21 files in the creator’s folder , 16 of them carrying his own line of description and 17 of them transcribed.
Filenames are the creator's. Where he numbered the sheets of one document, each sheet is listed on its own line, as he files them. A line in quotation marks is his own description from the 2013 index; the sentence above it is the Library's, written from what the filename says and from the transcription where one exists.
18530000_Property_Taxes_1850-1852
Receipt for property taxes.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J. Robinson Pays $26.40 Carson Taxes”
18530006_Robinson_Receipt
Receipt. Names John Robinson.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J. Robinson Submits Expenses of $28.90”
18530708_Appraiser_Oaths
Appraisers’ oaths.
The creator’s own index calls it: “R. Mason, J. Farley, W. English”
18550000_Estate_Expenses
Statement of estate expenses.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J. Robinson Submits Exepenses of $18.66”
18570000_Estate_Settlement
Settlement of the estate.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J. Robinson, Admin. Submits Expenses”
18570302_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “B. Young Appoints Mathew Carson POA”
18570403_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “W. Carson Appoints Mathew Carson POA”
18570404_Newspaper_Billing
Newspaper’s bill for a published notice.
The creator’s own index calls it: “Platte Argus Publishes Estate Notice”
18580503_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “A.J. Carson Appoints M.N.C. Robinson POA”
18580621_Estate_Payment
Payment out of the estate.
The creator’s own index calls it: “Estate Pays B. Young $259.60”
18580926_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J. Blevins Appoints Mathew Carson POA”
18581116_Power_of_Attorney-1
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “J.H. Carson Appoints Mathew Carson POA”
18581116_Power_of_Attorney-2
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “James H. Carson”
18590926_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “R. Carson et al Appoint Mathew Carson POA”
18590930_Estate_Payment
Payment out of the estate.
The creator’s own index calls it: “Estate pays R. Carson et al $197.58”
18590930_Power_of_Attorney
Power of attorney.
The creator’s own index calls it: “Andrew Carson Appoints M. Carson POA”
18591022_Estate_Payment-A_Carson
Payment out of the estate.
18591022_Estate_Payment-Blevins
Payment out of the estate.
18591022_Estate_Payment-J_Carson
Payment out of the estate.
Missouri_Probate_Table
A two-page list of the Missouri probate scans with a line of description for each, in the creator’s own hand.
Missouri_Probate_Transcriptions
Jan and John Meranda’s transcriptions of the Platte County probate papers, headed by the filename of each scan. Published here page by page.
Provenance
- Records
- Public records; not under copyright
- Scanned and published by
- Bob Zybach and Janet Meranda
- This folder
- 1852-1859_Missouri_Probate
- Described
- By the Library, 4 September 2026
