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From 1935 to 1946, the Hall of Records completed the work of
transferring the remaining volume indexes to cards, making many
corrections. In addition, the Testament ary Papers were arranged
and indexed on cards.

The indexes are based on the name of the decedent except the card
index to Accounts, which includes the name of the administrator or
executor as well, and the index to Testamentary Proceedings, which
is an all-name index. The card indexes are filed under two head-
ings : Testamentary Proceedings, which contains only the cards re-
ferring to the Testamentary Proceedings series and Testamentary
References, which includes all the other cards referring to Preroga-
tive Court Records.
Index to Testamentary Proceedings, 1657-1777, 19 volumes and

card index.
Index to Wills, 1635-1777, 4 volumes (2 sets of 2 volumes each, one

set handwritten and the other typed) and card index.
Index to Inventories and Accounts, 1674-1718, 2 volumes and card

index.

Index to Inventories, 1718-1777, 3 volumes and card index.
Index to Accounts, 1718-1777, 2 volumes and card index.
Index to Balance Books, 1751-1776, 1 volume and card index.
Index to Original Wills, 1666-1777, 1 volume and card index.
Index to Testamentary Papers, 1659-1777, card index.

LIST OF COLONIAL PROBATE OFFICERS

A list of the colonial probate judges and their clerks or registers
has been included here, because they are frequently mentioned in
the records and it is interesting and useful to know who was
serving at a given date and how long he served, especially since
the initials of the judges or the registers were often used in the
original liber lettering of the individual volumes. As has already
been indicated, the officers who had jurisdiction over probate mat-
ters during the colonial period were the Secretaries of the Province
up to 1673 and the Commissaries General afterwards. Their com-
missions were consistently recorded: the Secretaries in the pro-
ceedings of the Governor and Council and the Commissaries in the
proceedings of the Prerogative Court. Occasionally, the Governor
assumed the duties of probate judge himself. Whenever this hap-