Lincoln County Probate Records

William Hodge, late of Edgecomb. Mary Hodge, of Edgecomb, widow, Adm'x, 29 May, 1786. [III, 72.] Nathaniel Leeman, of Edgecomb, and Robert Cochran, of Newcastle, sureties. Inventory by Ebenezer Gove and Moses Davis, both of Edgecomb, and Samuel Waters, of Newcastle, 30 June, 1786, £779 : 16 : 9. [III, 111.] Account filed 4 Oct., 1786. [III, 131.] William, minor son, chose Samuel Waters, of Newcastle, to be his guardian, 4 Oct., 1786. [III, 167.] Division of real estate by Moses Davis and Ebenezer Gove, both of Edgecomb, and Samuel Waters, of Newcastle, 19 July, 1788 : dower to Mary, widow ; remainder to Jane, William, Jennet Osborn, Allis Trask, Sarah Kennedy, Elizabeth Trask, James and Anna Woodbridge, children. John, a son, was "absent, out of this Common Wealth, in Parts beyond Sea." [IV, 103 to 105.]

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 143, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.