Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

Janvary : 14 : 1661-2 :

   In the name of god Amen, I Gregory Jefferys being In perfect memory and vnderstanding, yet being sencible of frajlty & mortality, do hereby & herein declare & make known my last & latest will & testament, Which is that I Committ & Commend my spirit vnto him who gave Itt mee, & my body vnto the dust from Whence It was taken, the which after my departure out of this life, being sollemely Interred, funerall expences defrayed, all legall debts, dues & demands satisfyd, & all Legacys, & bequeaths being disposed of, that then my wife Mary Jefferys shall haue my whoole estate, In her own hand till my sun John come vnto the age of seaventeen yeares, who then shall haue an æquall halfe, as It shall bee now valewed of all moueables as his owne portion, being vnderstood æqually with halfe y^e Land not besid^s Itt, & if my sayd wife die before him, that then my aforesd sun shall haue the houseing & land. But if the Lord take away my sun his estate shall fall into the Infants hands, that is in the mothers Wombe at this Present. But if the sd Infant bee not then liueing, the sd portion to fall into the Mothers hands If the Infant surviue them both, to bee soole possessor of both thejr estates; And Moreover I bequeath vnto the Church of Sacoe, to the end such things or some or one of them at least as are necessary for the carijng on of the worship & seruice of god there in may be Inioyed, one yeareling steare to bee Deliverd to whom authority shall see meete, & as they shall see Cause at the next generall assembly. I bequeath vnto my Kinesman Charles Potum a 2 yeare ould Heffer Called rose, and to y^e end this my will may bee fully accomplished, I make & ordajne my wife as executrix, the aforesd Charles Potum executor there of/ In ratification & confirmation of all which, I freely sett my hand & hart/

Testes Seth Fletcher/    John Scadlocke/		Gregory Jeffery/
Sworn to by attesting witnesses, 7 Mch 1661, the first deposing it was executed by Jeffrey "two days or there about before his departure out of this world"; Recorded 7 Feby 1665; Inventory returned at £120-0-0 by Mr Tho: Williams and Morgan Howell 17 Feby 1661-2. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 8, citing Court Records, BB, 18.