Lincoln County Probate Records

William Hopkins, late of Newcastle. Mary Hopkins, of Newcastle, widow, Adm'x, 22 Sept., 1761. Peter Paterson, of Newcastle, and Robert Cocheran, of the East side of Wiscasset Bay, sureties. [I, 8.] Mary Hopkins, widow of William Hopkins, appointed Guardian to Solomon, Mary, Agnes, Jane, and Martha, children of said William ; Robert Hodge and David Given, both of Newcastle, sureties. [I, 10.] Inventory by Robert Hodge, David Given and John Cunningham, all of Newcastle, 18 Nov., 1761. £261 : 9 : 3. [I,13.] Account filed 4 Oct., 1763, at which time the widow had become wife of Hugh Holmes, of Newcastle. [I, 39.] Partition of real estate by Benjamin Woodbridge, David Given and Alexander Campbell, committee, 15 Oct., 1771, [II, 68 to 70,] at which time Jennet or Jane had become the wife of David Somes.

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 2, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.