Series VI. Estate Papers are divided into four subseries. Subseries A. Trustee Papers includes will and probate records, inventories of real estate, and legal papers. Subseries B. Estate Financial Records consists of mainly account books, memo books and loose vouchers, and receipts and cancelled checks. Subseries C. Trustee Correspondence includes bound volumes of letters sent by the trustees. Additionally, unbound copies of letters written by David Pingree (1841-1932) as trustee are interfiled with correspondence received. Correspondence is organized chronologically. Letters written by David Pingree Jr.’s sisters, Anna Peabody (1839-1911) and Ann Maria Wheatland (1846-1927), of a personal nature, are included in this subseries as they pertain to estate disbursements. Subseries D. Other Estates includes documents pertaining to the estates of Pingree’s uncle, Thomas Perkins (1758-1830) and his legacy to benefit Augustus W. Perkins and Abigail B. (Perkins) Bateman; his sister, Annar Pingree (1797-1875) and his brother Asa Pingree (1807-1869); and the settlement of Pingree’s oldest son, Thomas Perkins Pingree with his wife, Harriet E. (Dodge) Pingree. In addition documents relating to the estates of Emery Johnson and a memorandum of the estate settlement and trust fund of Mary P. Lindegard, another legatee of Thomas Perkins’ will, are included.