Maine Wills

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

   The twenty Eighth Day of y^e sixth Month called August in y^e Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred & thirty nine, I Andrew Neal of Kittery in the County of York & Province of the Massachusets Bay in New-England Husbandman being sick & weak in Body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God for the same. Therefore Calling to mind y^e mortality of my Body & that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make & Ordain this my last Will & Testament. That is to say first of all I Recommend my Soul to God that gave it & my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent manner according to y^e Discretion of my Executors, and as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in This Life that is not disposed of I give and dispose of y^e same in y^e following manner & form. I give & bequeath to my wellbeloved Son Andrew four acres of Land joyning to the Land that William Furbush now dwells on & four Acres of fresh Marsh in the round Marsh so called & two Acres of salt Marsh at York Marshes which I bought of Sam^ll Johnson & one halfe of my Common Rights lying in said Kittery & Berwick.

   I give & bequeath to my well beloved son John a piece or parcel of Land lying between the Land of Thomas Weed & y^e Land now in the possession of David Clark Containing by Estimation Twenty Acres of Land be it more or less & y^e one halfe of my Common Rights lying in s^d Kittery & Berwick provided he the s^d John Neal doth pay unto my two Daughters Katharine Austin & Mary Hill one hundred pounds Currant money of New England to Each of them fifty pounds in y^e space of one year after my Decease & if either of them should decease before the Expiration of that time then y^e same sum shall be paid to their Children in Equal Proportion.

   I also give unto my Grandson Andrew Austin y^e Son of my s^d Daughter Katharine Austin twenty two acre of Land adjoyning to y^e Land of John Hambleton near y^e great Hill so Called in Berwick afores^d.

   I also give unto my dear & well beloved wife Katharine my Negro garl Dillo & all my House hold goods & moveable Estate both within Doors and without during her natural Life & that she may dispose thereof as She shall see meet amongst my four Children abovenamed.

   I also Constitute make & Ordain my s^d Wife & my Trusty friend Sam^ll Shorey to be my sole Executors of this my last Will & Testament & I Do hereby utterly disallow Revoak & Disannul all & every other or former Testaments Wills Legacies & bequests & Executors by me in any wise before named Willed & bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament.

Signed sealed published    pronounced & Declared    by ye sd Andrew Neal to be    his last Will & Testament    in ye presence of us    Caleb Emery    Joseph Williams    William Fry Jur		Andrew Neal (Seal)       his mark
Probated 16 Oct. 1739. Inventory returned 27 Nov. 1739, at £730: 19: 6, by Caleb Emery, William Leighton and Jabez Jenkins, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 407, citing Probate Office, 5, 159.