Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Three (1709-28)

   In the Name of God amen the Twenty Ninth Day of March 1728. I Allison Brown of Arrundel in y^e County of York Yeoman being uery Sick & weak in body but of perfect mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God therefore Caling unto mind y^e Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to dye do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament that is to Say Principally and first of all I give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it and my body I recommend to y^e Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at y^e Discretion of my Executrix and Executors Nothing Doubting but at y^e Generall Resurrection I Shall Receive y^e Same again by y^e Mighty Power of God and as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me in this Life I give Demise and Dispose of y^e Same in y^e following Manner and form

   Item I Do give unto my three Sisters viz Eliz^a Stagpole Mary Carr & Katharine Lassell four pounds a Peice to be paid to them out of my Estate at y^e Discretion of my Executrix & Executors and I do also give unto my three Sisters Children that are now born to Each of them four pounds a Peice as they Come to the age of one & Twenty years to be paid unto them out of my Estate at the Discretion of my Executrix and Executors.

   Item I do give to my brother Andrew Browns Daughter Brown four pound Money to be paid out of my Estate when She Comes of age if She lives to that time.

   Item I do give to my Dearly beloved wife Hannah the whole Improvement of all my lands mills moveables of any kind or Sort whatsoever within doares & without to be Improved to the best advantage as Shall be thought fitt by her & my Executors for her Comfortable Maintainance and y^e bringing up my Children Andrew Brown and Eliz^a Brown untill they Come of y^e age of one & Twenty years and my will is that my son Andrew Should be brought up to y^e Colledge if it Can Possiably be Done by y^e InCome of my Estate without wronging my wife & my Daughter.

   Item I do Give unto my son Andrew Brown and to my Daughter Eliza Brown all my housing & Lands & other building to be Equally Divided between them when my son Cometh to y^e age of one and Twenty Years Provided my Son be brought up to y^e Colladge as aforesaid but if not then my will is that my Son Andrew Shall have two thirds of my land & buildings aforesaid & my Daughter one third part & no more and my will is and I do give to my wife Hannah and to my two Children all my moveable Estate to be Equally Divided between them three when my Son Cometh to y^e age of one & twenty Years unto which Time my wife is to have the Improvement of y^e whole for y^e End as aforesaid I do Also give to my Dear Wife Hannah after my son Andrew Comes to y^e age of one and Twenty Years one third part of the Income of my Estate During her Natural life to be paid her by my two Children according to what they or Either of them Injoy of it and I do appoint my wife to be Executrix with my father in law M^r Humphrey Scammon & Ensign Thomas Perkins whom I do appoint to be Executors to See that this my last will and Testament be Performed and I do hereby Desalow Revoke and Disanul all and Every other former Testament will Legacies & bequest and Executors by me in any ways before named Willed & bequested Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last will & Testament in Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the Day and Year before Mentioned.

Signed Sealed Published    Pronovnced & Declared    by ye sd Allison Brown as    his last will & Testament    in ye Presence of us.    Marston Cabot    John Trewogy    Joseph Adams.		Allison Brown (Seal)
Probated 1 May 1728. Inventory returned 27 March 1729, at £1241: 7: 0, by James March, Jabez Dorman and Jesse Town, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 293, citing Probate Office, 3, 274.