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GARRETT, PATRICK FLOYD. 1850-1908. Autograph Endorsement Signed ("Pat Garrett / Sheriff"), March 24, 1881, on the verso of a subpoena issued by the Probate Court of Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory ordering Mrs. Sue E. Barber to appear in the matter of the Estate of John Tunstall, 1 p, legal folio, March 19 and 24, 1881, leaf toned and thumbed, two holes punched at upper margin, some separation at horizontal folds. Provenance: purchased 1992, vendor unrecorded. In this document Garrett records that he has served a subpoena to Sue E. Barber (McSween) to appear in court over a matter regarding the Tunstall Estate. He writes: "I certify that I served the within citations on the within named Sue E. Barber by reading the same to her at her Residence on the 24th day of March ... 1881." he also lists expenses of $1.50. Sue Barber is also Susan McSween, the wife and later widow of Alexander McSween, who worked for Tunstall. After both Tunstall and McSween were killed in the Lincoln County wars (McSween as he was attempting to surrender), she was destitute, and found work as the executor of the vast Tunstall estate. She unsuccessfully petitioned Governor Lew Wallace for amnesty for the Regulators, who had defended her and her husband, and pursued Tunstall's killers. Later she was gifted 500 head of cattle from John Chisum, which she turned into a thriving ranch, and would be called the "Cattle Queen of New Mexico."