Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume One (1680-1706)

   In the Name of god Amen the 7^th day of June 1693 and in the 5^th year of y^e Reign of our Soueraign Lord and Lady King William and Queen Mary Enoch Hutchings Being aged and Weak in Body But of Sound and Perfect Memory Praise Begiuen to Allmighty God for the same and knowing the uncertainty of this Life on Earth and that all flesh must yeeld to Death When it shall please allmighty god to Call thereunto and Being Desierous to settle things in ord^r Doe make this my Last Will and Testament in manner and form following that is to say first and Principally I commend my Soull to allmighty god my asuredly Beleuing that I shall Receiue full Pardon and free Remission of all my sins and that I shall Be saued By the Pretious Death and merrits of my Blessed Sauiour and Redeemer Christ Jesus and my Body To y^e Earth from Whence it was taken to Be Buried in Such Decent and Christian maner as to my Execut^rs hereafter named Shall Bee thought-meet and conuenient and touching Such Worldly Estate as y^e Lord in Mercy hath Lent mee my Will and meaning is that ye same Shall Bee Imployed and Bestoed as hereafter By this my Will is Expressed and first I doe Reuoake Renounce ffrustrate and make Voyd all Wills By me formerly made & Declared and appoint this to Bee my Last Will and Testament.

   Item : I giue and Bequeath unto Mary my Beloued Wife all my wholl Estate whatsoeuer Dureng her Widdowhood as howsing Lands Cattle household Stuff and other Implem^ts Whatsoeuer to haue and to hold During her naturall Life Prouided she Remaine a Widdow and after her Decease or Mariage with any other man my Will is that all my Whole Estate Be Diuided amongst my Children in maner and form following

   Item : I giue and Bequeath unto Enoch my Beloued son my house and thirty acres of Land Joyning to it which Lyeth and is Scituate at y^e head of y^e Estern Creeck in Spruce creek Being thirty Pole wide or in Bredth By the Water side to have and to hold y^e said thirty Acres of Land & house to him and his heirs Lawfully Begotten of his Body foreuer.

   Item : I giue and Bequeath vnto my son Joseph twenty fiue Acres of Land at y^e head of y^e Eastern Creeck Joyning to his Brother Enochs Land and on y^e South side thereof in Bredth twenty fiue pole and y^e Rest of y^e Remaining Bredth containing fiue acres y^e s^d Joseph alowing y^e same Bredth and Quantity to his Brother John for a way to y^e water side or for other Uses next to his Brother Enochs Land To Haue and to hold y^e s^d Land as it is specified to him and his heirs Lawfully Begotten foreuer Vnless y^e s^d Joseph shall se good to Dispose of y^e Primisses to one of his Brothers.

   Item/ I giue and Bequeath unto my son John Ten acres of Land Lying at y^e head of my aboue said Lands Before giuen to my son Enoch and Joseph Being an additionall Grant to y^e former and fiue acres out of Josephs for a way and other uses as is Expressed in his Brother Josephs Legacy.

   Item/ I giue and Bequeath unto my youngest son Jonathan my Garison house Wherein I now Dwell and y^e other house By it and all y^e Barns and out houses and all y^e Land thereto Belonging about Thirty acres more or less fronting the maine Creeck Bounded in Bredth By Rowland Williams and Martins Coue and so Back into y^e Woods as far as my Land Runns allway Prouided and to Be understood that my sonns Enoch Joseph and John are enter & Possess their Seueral Leagacys Imediately after my Decease and that my son John shall haue Liberty to Dispose of his Land to one of his Brothers and to no other p^rson/ this Later Claues to Be understood according to True meaning though any thing to y^e Contrary aboues^d

   Item I giue and Bequeath unto my two sonns Benjamin and Samuell all my stock of Cattle of what kind soeuer to Be deuided Between y^m according to my Wifes Discreation:

   Item/ I giue and Bequeath unto my two Daughters Mary and Sarah all my houshold stuff as Beding Linin and Woollen Peuter and Brass and Iron and uessels of Wood/

   And Last of all I doe nominate and appoint my three friends viz^t the Worshipfull Cap^t ffrancis Hook and m^r Richard Cutt and W^m Godsoe To Be Executo^rs of this my Last Will and Testamt Witness my hand and seall y^e year and day aboue written

Signed Sealed and Deliuered     In pesence of us    Rowland Williams    The Signe of    Henry X Benson    Wm Godsoe		the Sign of Enoch E : H Hutchings (his Seal)
Recorded 20 October 1698. Inventory sworn to and returned 18 July 1698, at £366: 11: 09 by the widow, which states that said Hutchings deceased May ye 9th 1698. Debts due the estate from Cap Pickrin: Dauid Hutchins: Rowland Williams: John Williams: John: Martin: Wm Hilton Senr: Enoch Hutchings: Bartholomew: Steuenson. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 119, citing Probate Office, 1, 49.