Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen ! The Eighteenth Day of Iune 1726 : I Iames Gray being weak in Body, though of a Sound Disposing mind, thanks be to God for it, Do make and ordain this my Last will and Testament Principally and first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into the hands of my Blessed Redeemer and my Body to be Decently Buried by my Executrix hereafter named nothing Doubting but at the Gen^ll Resurrection I Shall Receive the 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 world I Give and Dispose of the Same in the following manner & form after my Debts and funeral Charge is Paid.

   Imprimis I give to my well Beloved wife Martha all My Personall Estate to be to her Sole use & Dispose for Ever together with the thirds of my Real Estate During her Naturall Life.

   Item I Give and Bequeath to my Son Francis the house and Land on which my Father and Mother Harlow now live to him and his Heirs for Ever he performing the Conditions to them I Stand Engaged in, or my Executrix for him & he also Paying Six Pounds to my Daughter Mary.

   Item I Give and Bequeath to my Son Moses one half of my home Stead Containing Fifty Acres in all that is to Say that Part of S^d home Steed I now live upon with the Houses and all the other Appurtenances to the Uper part or half belonging to be to him his Heirs & Assigns for Ever Togeather with Ten Acres adjoyning Laid out by my Father Harelow my Said Son Paying twelve Pounds to my Daughter Mary in Publick Bills of Credit.

   Item I Give and Bequeath to my Son Iames the other and Lower half of my Said home Steed next the River with all the appurtenances to him his Heirs and Assigns for Ever.

   Item I Give and Bequeath to my Sons Tayler and Allexander the fourty acres at the Plains Between my House and Bricksom in York to be Equally Divided Between them to be to be to them & their Heirs for Ever

   Item I Give to my Daughter Mary Eighteen Pounds in Bills of Credit to be Paid by my Sons Francis and Moses as aforsaid when She Comes of age Viz^t Six Pounds by Francis & twelve Pounds by Moses.

   Finally I Constitute my well Beloved wife Martha to be the Sole Executrix of this my Last will and Testament hereby Revoaking all other will or wills by me made.

   Signed Sealed pronounced & Declared to be the Last will & Testament of me the said Iames Gray y^e Day & year above written before & in Presence of

Iohn Gray    Ioseph X Gilleson          his mark    Thomas Alden		Iames X Gray (Seal)       his mark
Probated 4 July 1726. Inventory returned 29 Dec. 1726, at £382: 0: 3, by James Grant, John Coopper and William Chadbourne, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 284, citing Probate Office, 3, 210.