Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

The deposision of Joseph Alexander

                  aged 39 yeares or there abouts

   The said Deponent being lawfully sworne before me testifieth and saith that he the said deponent being tending of Mr John Alcock of Kittery in the province of maine ship wright the said Alcock being sicke, the said Alcock being by sd Deponent desired to make his the sd Alcocks will : said Alcock said that all his Estate in what ever kind forme or nature soever that was his or of right ought to be his he the said Alcock willed and sayed that all should be to his the said Alcockes wife and as shee pleased to Dispose thereof, and farther saith that the said Alcock was then to the oppinion of said deponent Compis mentis and that severall times before sd Alcock Dyed said Deponent talked with sd Alcock and found that his last Will and testament was as aboue sd, all his Estate reall and temporall and further saith not only that the said Alcock desired him the said Deponant to take notice that what is aboue said should be his last will and testament which he the said Alcock would as he said haue put in Wrighting saue that by the lamenese of his hands he could not

Joseph Alexander    Joan Amerideth her mark X		the Marke X of Sary Litten
Mr Joseph Alexander Mrs Joan Ameredeth and Sarah Lidden widdow came this Day and made oath to the verity of every perticular aboue written this twenty fift of august 1693
Coram me/		Francis Hooke Judge for the probats of wills and C A Admistrs
This Will is allowed by the Judge of the probats of wills    This 30th Day of August 1693 as Attests             John Wincoll Registrar :
Inventory returned at £298: 16: 0, by Elihu Gunnison and Wm Godsoe, appraisers, 25 Aug 1693 and sworn to by the widow Joana Alcock 30 Aug 1693. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 39, citing Probate Records (belonging to the sixth volume of Court Records), 0, 4.