Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   Know all men by these Prsents that I John Tucker fisherman of the Yles of shoales, vidz^t Starr Yland In the County of Portsmouth being by gods prouidence at the house of John Amerideth of the Town of Kittery In the County of Yorke, very sicke and Weake of body, yett at Prsent of Indifferent firme memory and vnderstanding, doe make this my last will & Testament/

   1 Inp^s I Committ my spirit vnto god that gaue Itt, & my body vnto the dust from whence It came, to bee decently buried at the Charge of my executor, whom I shall name & appoynt/

   2 : I dispose of my outward estate In manner as followeth, vidz^t my Will is that all my debts bee duly & truely payd by my executor/

   3 : I giue & bequeath vnto Thomas Wells Minister of the Town of Kittery the full & Just some of one pound tenn shillings, to bee payd by my executor after my decease, the one halfe In money & the other halfe In fish/

   4 : I giue & bequeath all the rest of my estate Whatsoeuer vnto my very Loueing frejnd John Amerideth, & Johanna his wife, and my will is, that all those y^t haue any estate of mine in their Costody, or y^t doe ow any debt vnto mee, do deliver & pay the same vnto the sd Amerideth or his wife after my decease, vpon y^r demand or either of them thejr heyres, executors administrators or Assignes, in speties, as the same is to bee delivered or payd vnto mee/

   5 : I doe Nominate & appoynt the abouesd John Amerideth Senjo^r of the Town of Kittery in the County of Yorke, to bee the executor vnto this my last will & testament, & do hereby Inioyne him faithfully to Prforme all & euery of the premisses aboue mentioned/ In Witness w^r of I haue here vnto sett my hand & seale Dated y^e last vidz^t the Thyrty one day of October, In the Twenty secund yeare of the Reign of o^r Soueraigne Ld King Charles the secund, by the Grace of god King of Great Brittan France & Ireland, & In the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred & seaventy/ 31 : 8 : Anno : Dom : 1670 :

Subscribed & sealed in the    Presence of us,    William Rawling/    the marke of X    Thomas Sharpan		The marke John Tucker (his seale)
Sworn to at Portsmouth by subscribing witnesses 3 Jany 1670: Probated 26 April 1671: Inventory returned at £65: 10: 10½ by Edw: Chambers & Vincent Burton, recorded 26 May 1671. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 7, citing Court Records, B, 97.