Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   In the name of god Amen/ I Griffine Mountegue of Cape Porpus in the County of Yorke, & in the Massatusetts Colony, being in perfect memory & sound in mind, but weake & sicke in body, & not knowing how soon the Lord will call mee to pay y^t debt due vnto nature : haue thought it meete & requisite to sett my temporal estate in order, to w^ch end I do make & appoynt this my last will & testament, hereby revoakeing & disanulling all other testaments & wills by mee formerly made, the w^ch Will & testament I declare as followeth/

   Inp^s I bequeath give & resigne my Immortall soule into y^e hands of the Lord god almighty, my most mercifull & faithfull Creato^r & redeemer, & commending my body vnto y^e earth to returne vnto y^e dust, willing & desireing that my breathless corps may bee layd by the grave of my deceased sun, John Mountegue (If it please the Lord that my race shall bee ended In the place abouesayd) there to ly & remajne & rest in hopes of a Joyfull resurrection, at the last day &c : And as for my temporall estate & worldly goods, I bequeath & giue it all of w^t nature & quality soever It is, both with in doors & with out quick or dead moueble or Immovable vnto my deare & Loueing wife Margerett Mowntegue, makeing my aforesd wife my whoole & soole executrix, who haueing defrayed the charge of my funerall rightts, & satisfyd all my Legall debts, dues & demands, vnto all & every Prson vnto whom any thing shall appeare due, The remajnd^r to make vse of, & Improue for her own liuelyhood & Mantenance : & at her desease, to bequeath giue away & dispose the same vnto whomsoever It shall see meete vnto her to leaue the same : ffor the ratifijng & Confirming of w^ch aforesd Will & testament, I here vnto sett my hand this seauenth day of July one thousand six hundred seaventy one/

Witnesses to this will are/    Seth ffletcher    Symon Buszys    marke X		Griffine Mowntegues    marke
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses 1 April 1672; recorded 31 April 1672. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 22, citing Court Records, E, 62.