Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   The last Will & testament of Thomas Skelling, being very Weake In body, but in Prfect memory/

   I giue to my sun Thomas one Cow, & a young steare & a Calfe/ further I giue to my sun John one Cow/ & I giue my Towles to bee deuided between them both/

   further it is my will to make my wife executrix to receiue & pay my debts, and all the goods y^t I haue to bee at her dispose, dureing her Widdows estate, & if shee marry she shall haue but the thirds, & the rest to bee deuided æqually to all my children/ Dated the 14^th of Novemb^r 1666/

Witnessed In ye Presence     of us, Robert Corbine/    Thomas Wakelie    Phyneas Rider/		The Marke of Thomas Skelling/
Sworn to by Corbine & Rider 2 Oct. 1667; Recorded 3 Oct. 1667; Inventory returned at £186-14-0 by Phyneas Rider, Geo: Ingersell and Nathaniell Wallis, appraisers 21 Dec. 1666, and attested by Deborah Skelling, "wife formerly vnto Tho: Skelling deceased." Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 11, citing Court Records, C, 13.