Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. The eleventh Day of September 1751. I Stephen Munson of y^e Town of Scarborough being very Sick & weak in Body but of perfect Mind & Memory, Thanks be given to God, Therefore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing it's appointed for all men once to Die do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament, That is to say principally and 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 Executors, 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 devise & dispose of the Same in the following Manner & form

   Imp^r Twenty Acres of Land joining to John Stewart & Twenty Acres joining to Iames Shute, and thirty Acres lying over None Such River, I give to my hon^d Father and Mother during their Life, and after their Decease to be given to my Bother [sic] Ioseph Munson to him & his Heirs

   Item. I give my moveables to my hon^d Father & MotherI do make constitute & ordain my hon^d Father sole Exec^r of this my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day and year above mentioned.

Signed Sealed pronounced & declared    by the Sd Stephen Munson as his    last Will & Testament in the pres-    ence of us the Subscribers    Nathaniel Finlayson    Jonathan Archer    Olive X Sevey       her mark		Stephen Munson (Seal)
Probated 30 September 1751. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 655, citing Probate Office, 8, 127.