Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Eight (1705-53)

   In the Name of God Amen. This fourteenth Day of August 1749. I Iohn Fogg of Scarborough in the County of York Yeoman being Sick & weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Momory Thanks be given to God therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, 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, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God, and as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise and dispose of the Same in the following Manner & Form.

   Imp^r. I give & bequeath to Mary my dearly beloved Wife all my homestead Lands Dwelling House Household Goods Buildings & Stock of every kind with all my Salt Marsh for & during her Widowhood or until my youngest Child comes of lawful Age, but in Case my Said Widow Should Marry, that then She is to carry none of the Household Goods away but leave them to & among my Children as She Shall See fit, but in Case my Said Widow Should never marry that then She Shall keep all the Household Goods in her Hands as long as She See fit She to dispose of the Said Household Goods some time in her Life time to and among my Said Children.

   Item. I give to my well beloved Son Iohn all that my Hundred acres of Land that lies back in the Woods on the Western Side of none Such River, and four Acres & half of fresh Marsh or Meadow lying up Said River, I also give my Said Son Iohn my two young Oxen & my young Mair all to be his immediately after my Decease, and also Six Acres of Salt Marsh to be his immediately after my youngest Child be of lawful Age and not before.

   Item. I give to my beloved Son Ionathan Two Hundred pounds to be equal to old Tenor as it now is to be raised out of my Estate and paid him in convenient time after he comes of age, as Shall hereafter be mentioned.

   Item. I give to my beloved Son Ioseph Two Hundred pounds pounds to be equal to old Tenor as it now is to be paid him in convenient time after he be of Age to be raised out of my Estate as Shall hereafter be named.

   Item. I give to my beloved Daughter Abigail Fifty pounds to be equal to old Tenor to be raised out of my Estate & paid her in convenient time after She be of lawful Age as Shall hereafter be mentioned

   Item. I give to my beloved Daughter Mary Fifty pounds to be equal to old Tenor & paid out of my Estate in convent time after She Shall be of lawful Age as Shall hereafter be named.

   Item I give to my beloved Son Moses all my Homestead Lands with the Buildings, and all my Salt Marsh, excepting the Six Acres I gave to my Son John. I give to my s^d Son Moses Two Acres of Meadow lying up Nonesuch River, I likewise Will & order that my Said Son Moses pay out of my Estate as followeth viz^t to my Son Ionathan Two Hundred pounds as afores^d. To my Son Joseph Two Hundred pounds, to my S^d Daughter Abigail Fifty pounds as aforesaid and I will & order that my Said Son Iohn Pay to my Said Daughter Mary Fifty pounds as aforesaid.

   Item. I give all the Right I have or ought to have in and unto the common & undivided Lands in the Township of Scarbor^o equally between my Said Sons Ionathan & Ioseph.

   I do also will & order that my homestead Lands, and y^e Marsh and Meadow which I give to my Son Moses come into his Hands immediately after my youngest Child comes of lawful Age, And in Case my Said Son Moses die without Issue then the Portion I gave to him is to be to my Said Son Jonathan he paying out as Moses was to do.

   I do likewise by these presents constitute make & ordain my dearly beloved Wife Mary my Sole Execut^x to this my last Will & Testament; and I do hereby ratify and confirm this & no other to be my last Will and Testament.

   In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day & year above written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    and declared by the Said John Fogg    as his last Will & Testament in    the Presence of us the Subscribers    Samll Small    John X Larrabee       his mark    George Hanscom		Iohn Fogg (Seal)
Probated 7 November 1749. Inventory returned 14 Dec. 1749 at £3213: 13: 0, old tenor by Samll Small, John Larrabee and George Hanscom, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 616, citing Probate Office, 8, 19.