Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   I Nicholas Daviss of Yorke In the Province of Mayn, being of Prefect Memory & vnderstanding, though not unsencible of the vncertenty of my life, vpon w^ch consideration being the more willing to settle thinges vidz^t outward my estate in due order, do hereby make & declare this signification of my mind, In these Presents Included, to bee my last Will and testament as followeth/

   I giue vnto my Cosson Mathew Barnard of Boston the wife of Mathew Barnard the some of fiue pounds/

   I giue vnto my Cosson William Locke of Owborne two silver spoones & fiue shillings In silver/

   I giue vnto my daughter Astine & her two children Mary & Sarah Austine Three pounds/

   I give vnto Mary Dod Elizabeth Dod & Mehitabell Dod 20^s a peece/

   I doe likewise giue vnto the aforesd Marry, Elizabeth & Mehitabell Dod my house housing & Lands, with all priuiledges & appurtenances belonging there vnto, after y^e decease of my wife Elizabeth Dauis/

   These Legacys being payd as abouesd I doe giue vnto my beloued wife Elizabeth Davis, the soole vse of all my houses & Lands soe ___g as her naturall life Contineweth, & do grant & giue vnto her the sool vseing & disposeing of all the rest of my goods Chattles Cattle Househould stuffe, debts or w^tsoever else appertaynes to mee, for her own proper vse & behoofe as shee shall see meete, to dispose y^rof to her selfe & others/

   And for the better Prformance of this my last will, I do desire & appoynt my Loueing frejnds Cap^t John Davess & Mr Peter Weare to bee y^e overseers thereof, vnto whom I do giue fiue shillings a peece/ In witness wrof I haue sett two my hand & seale/ Dated this 27 : day of April 1667 : In y^e 19^th yeare of or Soueraign Ld y^e King Charles the secund/

Signed & Deliverd    In ye Prsence of,    Edw : Rishworth/    Susanna Rishworth/		Nicholas Davis (his seale)
Probated: —recorded 17 August 1670. Inventory returned at £102: 10: 6. by Edw: Rishworth, John Davess, and Mathew Austine, 12 March 1669 or 70. Debts due to his estate from the Town of Yorke, Job Allcocke, Will: more, Thomas Bragdon, the County Treasurer, Phillip Cooper, Phillip Hatch, amounting together to £4: 11: 6. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 5, citing Court Records, B, 96.