Maine GenealogyThe Will of Arthur Mackeworth
From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)
This 17th day of August : 1660 : I Robert Jordan do ascertajne on my oath, that I Heard Mr Arthur Mackeworth on his death bedd declare that his full will & testament was, that his wife Mis Jane Mackeworth should by her wisedome dispose of his whoole estate æqually as neare as might bee betweene her former husbands children & the Children betweene them, & In Case any shortnesse was on either side, that Itt should rather bee on his owne Childrens side/ & further sayth not onely the desease of the sd Mr Arthur Mackeworth was before the submission of these Towns of Sarbrough & Falmouth to the Massatusetts authority/ vnder my hand, & on my oath/ by mee Robert Jordan/
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Sworn to, 17 Aug. 1660, before Henry Joslyn, Associate, and recorded 9 Sept 1664.
Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 44, citing Registry of Deeds, 1, 155. |
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