Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Four (1677-1734)

   In the Name of God A Men I Jacob Willett Late of the City of London and Now Resident in y^e Island of Barbados Merchant being Very Sick and weak in Body, but of Sound & Good mind and Memory Praised bee ascribed to the Lord God for y^e Same and knowing the uncertainty and frailty of the life and Bood of all flesh and also for the Better Settlement of my Estate in this Island Doe make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in Manner and forme following.

   and first I Recommend my Soul to God my maker.

   Secondly I Doe constitute ordain and Appoint my Trusty and well Beloved friend M^r Ralph Lane of the Said Island of Barbados to by my Executor in Trust to take Care for acting and to Accomplish all my affairs herein this Island and New England So far forth as concerns my Estate in Either of the afore mentioned Countrys, and that only for y^e Good benefit and advantage of my wife and Children in old England.

   Thirdly and Lastly I Do appoint my Trusty Friend Mr Ralph Lane to be not only my Executor in Trust to take care for all things concerning my funerall Expences thereon for which he is to be Satisfyed and this I Do Publish and Declare as my Last Will and Testament in Barbados In Testimony whereof I y^e Said Jacob Willett have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this 4^th Day of September 1677

Signed Sealed & D D    In the Presence of    Ann Emroy    Mary X Willson       her Mark    Henry Hunt		Jacob Willett (Seal)
Probated 1 May 1733. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 338, citing Probate Office, 4, 148.