Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen in y^e first place I committ my Soul to God that gave it and my Body to y^e Dust to be Decently Buried

   Item my will is that my Son William administer on y^e one half of my Estate after my Decease which I give unto his Son William when he Shall arrive to y^e Years of twenty and one paying out to his Sister Elizabeth twenty pounds when She Shall arrive to y^e Years of Twenty and one or before if She Marry, and if Both or either of these my Grand Children die under age then their father Shall have his or her parts for his own vse and Benifit.

   allso I give unto my Sone William all my Stock and moveable Estate for Divers Reasons and y^e money which Anthony Freeman is to give for two acres of Land which I have Promised him where his House Stands paying for it as Land goes other where and that my Son william Shall be at all y^e Charge of my Present Sickness and funeral out of it.

   also my Will is that my Son Joshua Shall have 3 piggs and five Shillings in money and that he administer on the other half of my Land which I give to his two Eldest Sons Benjamin and Jonathan when they Shall arrive to y^e years of twenty and one and if these my Grand Children Shall die under age then it Shall go to the Rest of y^e Sons and for the Division of y^e Land my Will is that they Divide it lenght ways and that William Shall have the hovse and orchard in his part for his Son William and for Sarah my Wife my will is that Joshua pay her Yearly ten bushells of Corn and one Hundred weight of meat of what Sort She pleases and the one half of all other things which She Stands in Need of during her Natural Life here upon y^e Forfiture of y^e vse of the land and that my Son William also find her y^e Same Dowrey and at her Death Both to bear an Equal part in Decently buring of her

wm X Beal       his mark    Samll ffitts    Thomas X Hall       his mark		William Black       his mark
Probated 1 Jan. 1727-8. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 290, citing Probate Office, 3, 264.