Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Five (1725-42)

   In the Name of God Amen the Sixth Day of December Annoque Domini 1737. Andrew Brown of the Town of Scarborough in the County of York in y^e Province of the Massachusets Bay in New-England, yeoman being aged of Body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once Dye Do make & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is to say Principally & first of all I give & Recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it & my Body I Recomend to the Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Burial at y^e Discretion of my Executor nothing doubting but at y^e General 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 with in this Life I Give Demise & Dispose of y^e same in the following manner & form.

   I Give & bequeath to Susanna Brown my Dearly beloved Wife one half of my Dwelling House which end She shall make Choice of during her natural Life & the Land that is mine adjoyning to said House on the East side of the heigh way & y^e whole of that Land that I purchased of John Larrabe on the Westermost side of the Heighway & y^e whole of that Lot of Marsh that I purchased of the Hunewells be to the Saw Mill & all my Housel Goods & one Cow & five Sheep & a Year old Heiffer during her natural Life in Lew or Stead of Her thirds of my Estate.

   I Give to my wellbeloved & Eldest Daughter Rebeccha Hunnewell twenty shillings money or Bills of Credit to be paid to her by my Executor.

   I Give to my well beloved & Second Daughter Hannah Hunewell twenty Shillings money or Bills of Credit to be paid to her by my Executor.

   I Give to my well beloved Daughters Abigail, Susanna, & Sarah a Cow & Three Sheep apiece to Each of my three Daughters above named to be paid to them or the value thereof in money or Bills of Credit by my Executor. and all my Housel Goods after y^e Death of their Mother Susana Brown.

   I Give to my well beloved Son Joshua Brown whom I likewise Constitute make & Ordain my Sole Executor of this my Last Will & Testament; all & singular my Lands & Marsh's Meadows that is mine or ought to be mine & my Common Right & all thing or things, Excepting what I have before Excepted & given & bequeathed in this my last Will & Testament by him freely to be possessed & Enjoyed & I Do hereby utterly disallow Revoak & Disannul all and every other or former Testament Wills Legacies & bequests & Executors by me in any wise named Willed & bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year above written Signed Sealed published pronounced & Declar'd by the s^d Andrew Brown as his last Will & Testament in y^e presence of us the Subscribers.

John Fogg    Andrew Libbee    Samll Libbee		Andrew Brown (Seal)
Probated 3 March 1740. Inventory returned 19 March 1740-41, at £680: 5: 0, by Saml Libbee, John Fogg and Andrew Brown, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 428, citing Probate Office, 5, 216.