Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   In the Name of God Amen/ Septemb^r 8 : 1664 :

   Mary Lux now being in Perfect Memory : & vnderstanding my fraylty & mortall Condition, do hereby & herein declare & make known my last will & testament Which is, that I Commend & committ my spirit to y^e Lord that gaue it mee, & my body to the dust from whence It was taken/ that after my departure out of this mortall life, that my last husband John Lux may Inioy all & wholly that estate the which my former husband Gregory Jeffery now deseased, left vnto mee his then lawfull wife, according to my aforesd husbands Jefferys will, according to the tenour of Itt that is to say to keepe my sunn John Jefferys vntill the age of seaventeen yeares, with that halfe of the estate given him, by his aforesd deseased father Jefferys, according to y^e dementions of my aforesd husband Jefferys will deseased : Alsoe I doe resigne all & every of my part & portion of the aforesd estate, into the hands & keepeing of my last husband, John Lux, that if the Lord please to take away my sunn John Jefferys before hee come to y^e age of seaventeen yeares, that halfe of the estate then belonging vnto him, may returne vnto my daughter Mary Lux Alsoe that my sunn Joseph Lux may possesse & Inioy my aforesd halfe of the estate with all the appurtenances according to the tenour of my deceased husbands Jefferys will; And if the Lord bee pleased to take away my sunn Joseph Lux, that then I bequeath & give all the estate wholly to bee posses'd by my aforesd daughter, Mary Lux, after the desease of my last husband John Lux/ Which is my will & desire, & doe freely here vnto sett my hand & seal/

Testes/    the X Marke    of Richd Reding    John Allger/		the Marke of Mary Lux (her seal)
Recorded 7 Feby 1665. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 9, citing Court Records, BB, 19.