Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Seven (1721-49)

   In the Name of God Amen. I Iohn King of Casco Bay in New England Labourer (now a Soldier at Louisburg on Cape Breton) being ill and indisposed in Body but in perfect Soundness of Mind make this my last Will and Testament viz^t Imp^r I bequeath my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to the Earth for a decent Burial

   2^ly I bequeath all my Estate Effects Wages Dues or Demands that I have in Possession or Reversion to my Brother W^m King and to my Sister Iane King and to Susannah Day of Said Casco Bay equally to be divided between them all three and I make Iohn Owen of Said Casco Bay my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I Set to my Hand and Seal at Louisburg this twenty seventh Day of Febru^ry Anno Domini Seventeen Hundred and forty & five Six.

Signed Sealed publish'd &    declared before Us,               {Iohn Small    Tests   {Iohn Norman               {Phillip Gammon		John King (Seal)    his mark
Probated 5 Nov. 1746. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 535, citing Probate Office, 7, 24.