Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

In the name of god Amen/

   The Twenty sixth day of Novemb^r in the yeare of our Lord god, one thousand six hundred seaventy three, I Christopher Hobbs senjo^r of Sacoe, in the County of Yorke shyre, & Coloney of the Massatusetts planter, being in good & Prfect memory, although very sicke of body, & Calling to mind the vncertenty of my Continewance in the Land of the liueing, do y^rfore make Constitute ordayne & declare this as my last Will & Testament, & by vertue here of doe revoake & Nullify all & every other will & testament in any kind w^tsoeuer, by mee formerly made, resigneing my soole vp into the hands of god, & my body vnto the dust, from whence it was taken to bee buried, where my executor hereafter mentioned shall order, & the charges of my funerall rights & obseques, & all my debts discharged, & defrayed, I hereby dispose of my temporall estate as followeth, Inp^s : To my sun Christopher Hobbs y^e house, & Land, moueables, & Immovables, with in doores & with out that I dwell vpon, & vnless my sun John come over to take possession of that halfe part of Land w^ch my daughter Jane dwelleth vpon, I alsoe bequeath the sayd halfe part vnto my sun Christopher : Item I bequeath vnto my sun Robert my vpper Plantation, & the Marsh that doth belong vnto It/ Item I bequeath vnto my daughter Jane fourty shillings, & Tenty to each of her foure children, in ordinary pay of the Town : To which end & purpose I make my sun Christopher my executor & that my Legacys & bequeaths may according to this my last Will & Testament bee disposed of peaceably & quietly, I request & hereby Impowre my neighbour James Gibbines Senjo^r, & my neighbour Roger Hill to bee the supervizers here of, to Prevent dis quietness, & to keepe my relations in tranquillity, each with other In Confirmation of all w^ch, I set my hand & seale to this Instrum^t the day & yeare aboue written/

Signed & sealed in the    Prsence of,    Judeth Gibbines    her marke X    Jerushah Hitchcocke    her marke/ X		Christopher Hobbs his             marke/
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses 28 March 1674; recorded 22 April 1674; Inventory returned at £139: 14: 0, by James Gibbines Sen. and Roger Hill, appraisers, 11 Dec. 1673. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 28, citing Court Records, E, 79.