Lincoln County Probate Records

William Potter, late of Bowdoinham. Prince Rose, of West Bowdoinham, so called, Adm'r, 22 Feb., 1780. [II, 167.] Abijah Richardson, of West Bowdoinham, and James Potter, of Topsham, sureties. Inventory by Abijah Richardson, Benjamin Jaques and John Farnam, all of West Bowdoinham, 1 Mar., 1780, £2066 : 16 : 0, "allowing Eighteen pence old Tenor as money went at in the year 1774 for one dollar or six shill'gs now." [II, 225.]

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 110, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.