Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Three (1709-28)

   In The Name of God Amen I Humphery Scamon of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Planter being well in body & of Perfect Mind and Memory make this my last Will & Testam^t in Manner and form as followeth I Committ my Soul to God hoping in his marcy through the Merritts of Christ to Injoy Eternal Life and my body to the Earth to be Decentely buried as my Executrix Shall See fitt and as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me with I give and Dispose of the same in the following Manner and form

   Impri^s I Giue and bequeath unto my well beloved Wife all my moueables Estate within Dowres and without During her life for her Support & Maintainance and what is left after her Decease to my two sons to be Equally Divided between them

   Item I Giue and bequeath to my two sons Humphery and Samuel Scamon all that Tract of land and Marsh at Sawco & Goose fear the Marshes to be Equally Divided between them the upland I give Humphery forty acres more then Samuel Humphery to have his part lowermust by the River Side as for my land at Dunstant I Give it Equally between them to Divided as they Shall See fitt all which Land & Marshs I give to them & their Heirs forever.

    Item I Giue and bequeath unto my three Daughters Elizabeth Halye Mary Pudinton Rebbecca Billing fourteen pounds a peice to be paid them by my two Sons Humphery & Samuel Scamon

   Item I Constitute make and ordain my two Sons afores^d with my wife to be Executors & Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament and I hereby Vtterly Disallow & Disonull all & Every other former testament and wills and legeces by me in any wayes before this Time made willed and bequeathed Certifying and Confirming this To be my last will and Testament I Do Desire & appoint my beloved friends Roger Dearing & Richard Cutt Sen^r to See this my will Performed In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Twelfth Day of March Anno Domini one thousand Seven Hundred and Thirteen fourteen

Signed Sealed & Delivered    In ye Presence of us.    Robert Elliot    Richard Cutt    Richard Cutt Junr		Humphery Scamon (Seal)       the mark of
Probated 28 Jan. 1727-8. Inventory returned 14 June 1729, at £792, by Paul Thompson Richard Stimpson and Daniel Smith, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 288, citing Probate Office, 3, 263.