Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Two (1698-1718)

   In the name of God Amen I Benjamin Nason of Berwick in the County of Yorke in the Province of the MassachuSetts Bay in New England being weak of Body but of Sound Memory & not knowing how it may please God to deal with me do make & ordain this my Last will & Testament in manner and form following. I Commit my Soul to the Lord IeSus Christ & as for my worldly Estate I dispose thereof as Followeth.

   Imp^rs after my Iust Debts & Funerall Charges are paid I say I dispose thereof as Followeth. (1) I give & bequeath unto my Son Benjamin Nason my homeSteed Viz^t all the land thereto belonging w^th all the bluildings Housing out housing thereto belonging I Say I give all my homeSteed lands to Benjamin & his Heirs for Ever; (Excepting twenty Acres out of the Same w^ch I give & bequeath to my Son William Viz^t Six Acres at the water Side & fourteen acres at the head & in Case William die w^thout Issue the Same to revert to Benjamin & his Heirs Also the Meadow belonging to the homeSteed farm--I give & bequeath to my Son Benjamin & his Heirs forever; & my fifty acres at the beaver dam, and my part of the Neek land betwene Quamphegen falls & Salmonfalls to him my S^d Son Benjamin and his Heirs forever; and also all my personall Estate within dore's & without Cattle Sheep Swine horsekind tackling & all other named or not named of what Nature kind or quality Soever household goods and whatsoever the Same Consists of I say I give and bequeath to him my Said Son Benjamin forever. & as for my hundred acres land or there abouts Ioyning to Spruce Swamp I give my Executor full power to make Sale thereof for the payment of my Debts if the Case So requirs or if he finds away to discharge them more for his Advantage then the S^d land to be to him and his Heirs; after they are discharged.

   Item I give & bequeath Unto my Six daughters Viz^t Ledia, Mary, Patiance, Febee, Anne, & Sarah, three pounds per ps in or as money to be paid them by my Executor when he can most Conveniantly do it to Such as are of age & the others when they come of age/

   Item I ordain and appoint my well beloved Son Benjamin Nason to be Sole Executor of this my Last Will and Testament.

   In Wittness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the 28 day of Iune Annoque Domini 1714.

Signed Sealed published    & Declared to be his last    will and Testament in the preSence of us.    Mary Spencer    William X Newton          his mark    John Croade		Benjamin Nason (Seal)
Probated 11 Aug. 1714. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 180, citing Probate Office, 2, 95.