Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume One (1680-1706)

   Yorke Octob^r 8^th 1703

   The last Will and Testament of John Brawne of Yorke in the Province of Maine being sound in Judgment and Memory. After my Just Debts & funeral Charges shall be paid by my Executor out of my Estate, my Will is that my housing, land, orchard Stock Tools, & y^e whole of my Estate of one kind & sort or Other be divided equally by indifferent men such as my overseer shall chuse into three parts and that my Cousin John More shall have one third of my whole Estate when thus divided to be Improved for his son John untill he shall come of age, Then to be his & his Heirs forever, And that the other two thirds shall be my Cousin Thomas Mores to Improve for his son William and after he shall be of full age to be his the s^d Williams and his Heirs forever. Onely before the Estate is divided, my will is that my boy John Barrill shall have four sheep viz^t two besides the two he hath already among my sheep.

   I doe Constitute & appoint my Dear Kinsman John More y^e Executor of this my last will & Testament I doe also desire my Trusty & wellbeloved Friend Samuel Donnel Esq^r to be my overseer of this my Will.

   In witness whereof I have herunto set my hand & Seale the day and yeare aboue written.

The marke of John Brawne (Seal)

	Witness:	{ Samuel Donnell { John Bankes { Samuel Moody
Probated 29 May, 1704, by his nephew John More. Re[c]orded 10 June 1704. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 140, citing Probate Office, 1, 92.