Lincoln County Probate Records

In the Name of God Amen I Michal McClary of Bristol in the County of Lincoln Husbandman Being Now in health and of a Sound mind make this my last Will & Testament as Follows that is to say I Recomend my Sole to god and my Body to the Earth to be Decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor and for such worldly Estate with which his providence Hath entrusted me I dispose thereof as Follows Vizt—

Imprimis I will that my House Barn & the hole of the land that I bought of John Savage is I Give unto his Son Thomas Savage for him or his Heirs after my Deceased—

Item I give to him the said Thomas Savage the hole of the land I Bought of his Father I order my Executor to Deliver it to him the said Thomas free & Clear of Debt hereby Revoking and Disannulling all Former Wills by me made declaring this and no other to be my last—

In Witness whereof I hereunto set my hand & Seal this fourteenth day of June Atino Domini one Thousand Seven hundred and Eighty four—

Michael Clary (seal)

Signed Sealed & Deliverd in
Presence of us—

David Pottle
James McDaniel
John Savage

Probated 6 Sep., 1788. [IV, 19.] John Costelow, of Pownalborough, Adm'r, 27 Mar., 1788; William Lewis and John McGown, both of Pownalborough, sureties. Inventory by Robert Given, Henry Fosset and James Sproul, all of Bristol, 31 Mar., 1788, £218 : 2 : 9. [V, 170.]

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 178, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.