Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. I Stephen Larrabee of North Yarmouth in y^e County of York in New-England Gentⁿ being weak of Body & sencable of my approaching Desolution Do make & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament being through the mercy of God of a sound & Disposing mind and memory. I Commit my Soul to God that gave it, & my Body to a Decent Christian burial at y^e Discretion of my Executor hereafter named.

   Im^s I Give uuto my Loving Wife Margaret Larrabee the Improvements of Profits of all my Lands Meadows in y^e Township of North-Yarmouth of all sorts with y^e Improvements of my Dwelling House & Barn so long as she shall Continue my Widow. I also give my s^d Wife all my moveable Estate within Doors & without Doors both quick Stock & Household stuff during her Continuing my Widow as afores^d but if she shall see cause to alter her Condition by marriage Then to have fourty pounds out of y^e moveable Estate as it shall be apprised.

   Item I Give unto my Eldest Son Stephen Larrabee one whole shear & an half shear of all my whole Estate both Real & Personal to him my said son Stephen & his Heirs and their assigns for ever.

   Item I Give unto my Youngest son Iohn Larrabee one whole shear of all my whole Estate both Real & Personal.

   Item I also Give unto my Two Sons Stephen & John all my Right unto one Hundred acre Lot of Land Scituate in North-Yarmouth on y^e South west side of the Hundred & Twenty Acre Division in s^d Town which Hundred Acre Lot was Drawn in the Right of y^e ten acre or home Lot No thirty one to be Equally Divided betwixt the s^d Stephen and Iohn.

   Item I Give unto my Daughter Hannah Harris one whole Shear of all my whole Estate Excepting twenty pounds both Real & Personal which Twenty pounds I give unto my Grand Daughter Hannah Harris to be paid her By my Daughter Hannah Harris on her Marriage Day if she shee shall be married before she arrive unto y^e age of Twenty & one years & if not when she is twenty & one years of age.

   Item I Give unto my Daughter Marget Welsh one whole shear of all my whole Estate both Real & Personal.

   It is my Will & to be understood that notwithstanding this Will none of my Childre[n] have y^e Use or Improvement of any of y^e Estate which I have hereby given to them untill after y^e Decease or marrage of my s^d Wife. I Do hereby appoint my Loving Wife Marget Larrabee & my son John Larrabee Joynt Executors of this my Last Will & Testatament Dated the Eighteenth Day of Oct^r 1737.

Stephen Larrabee (seal)

Signed sealed & Declared by ye sd stephen    Larrabee to be his Last Will & Testament    In presence of,    Samll seabury    Barnabas Winslow    Barnabas seabury    Gilbert Winslow.
Probated 7 Jan. 1737-8. Inventory returned 12 Dec. 1737, at £679: 4: 0 by James Tuttle, Barnabas Winslow and Gilbert Winslow, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 397, citing Probate Office, 5, 103.