Maine Wills

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

   In The Name of God Amen, I James Stagpole Jun^r of Barwick in her Maj^ts Province of the Masachusets Bay in New England (planter) being very Sick and weak of Body but of Sound mind and memory praised be god for it, and not Knowing how it may please god to deal with me. I hereby revoking all former & other Will or wills device or devises by me at any time heretofore made making null and void the same to all intents and purposes, I doe hereby declare and make this my last Will and testament in manner & form following.

   Imp^rs—I commit my Soul into the hands of Jesus Christ my onely Saviour & blessed redeemer hoping through his meritorious death and Intersestion pardon & forgiveness of all my Sins. And as for that outward Estate God has bestowed upon me I give, bequeath, & dispose thereof as followeth. after my debts & funeral charges is paid and discharged.

   Item. I Give and bequeath unto my Honoured Father James Stagpole the Debt dve to me from James Grant of Barwick, being six pounds ten shillings, and also one Cow & one stere of one year and advantage old in the hands of Zachariah Goodale at Wells, and also my rideing Mayr, and also a piece of Broad Cloath of two yards, three quarters with the lineing and triming belonging thereunto left in the Custody of my Grandmother Magaret Warrin, and also Seaven yards & halfe of homespun drest wolen Cloth, and also all the Wages dve to me from the Province as a Souldiar in her Maj^ts Service.

   Item. I give and bequeath unto my Vncle James Warrin, my young horse bridle and sadle.

   Item. I Give my Brother Phillip Stagpole my long Gunn with the Amunition powder horn and all belonging to her.

   Item. I give unto my Brother William Stagpole my other Small gunn, and all my wearing Apparill

   Item I Give and bequeath unto my Brother Phillip Stagpole my three steel traps.

   Item I Give and bequeath unto my Brother John Stagpole Twenty acres of vpland and marsh laying on both sides of the great Works River, to him and his Heirs forever.

   Item All the Remainder of my Estate Whither Real or personal, I give and bequeath unto my Hon^d, Father whom I doe appoint sole Executor hereof, and of all herein Contained as on the other side. In Testamony whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal This Eleventh day of November In the year of our Lord, One Thousand Seaven Hundred & six, 1706

Signed, Sealed, Published    and Declared to be his    last Will and Testament    In the presence of    Hatevill Roberts}    Richard X Hussey}    John Croad}		James JS Stagpole (Seal)          his mark
Sworn to 30 Nov. 1706. Recorded 20 Dec. 1706. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 148, citing Probate Office, 1, 138.