Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

Portsmouth 9^th of August (1677)

   I Bryan Pendleton sometyme of Sacoe In y^e County of Yorke, Now rescident in Portsmouth, on Pischataqua River in N : E : do make & ordajne this to be my last Will & testament, hereby reuoakeing all former Wills by mee made/

   1 : I giue vnto my beloued Wife Ellner Pendleton (besid^s what I here reserved for her in a Deed of Gyft to my Grandchild Pendleton Fletcher) all my househould goods, togeather with all that peece of Land belonging to mee lijng between my son James & Mr Dereings, vpon y^e great Ysland which I haue excepted, & reserved out of my deed of Gyft of all to my son James/ Furthermore, I give vnto my wife, all my houseing & land at Cape Porpus, which Richd Palmers wife hath the vse of dureing her life, togeather with my six hundred & fourty Acres of Land more or less lijng on the East side of Wests brooke, neare Saco ffalls, which I bought of John West, & Majo^r William Phillips as by Deed will appeare, & alsoe Tymber Ysland at the little River, all which I giue to my wife absolutely to bee at her disposall/

   2ly vnto my grandchild James Pendleton Junjo^r, I giue my hundred acres of vpland, & Tenn Acres of Meddow which I bought of Joⁿ Bush & lyeth with in the Towneshipp of Cape Porpus adioyneing to princes Rocke/

   3ly all my houseing & Land at Wells with all the priuiledges & appurtenances I giue vnto my two grandchildren Mary, & Hannah Pendleton w^ch my son had by his former wife to bee æqually diuided between them/

   4 : I giue to my wife all my weareing Cloaths to bee disposed off as shee shall see meete, desireing her to remember some poore/

   5 : Finally I make my wife my executrix & Joyne my beloued son James Pendleton executo^r togeather with his Mother, willing my executrix to disburse what is meete for my funerall Charges, & my executo^r to pay all my debts/ And I request Mr Josua Moodey, & Mr Ric : Martyne, to bee ouerseers to this my last Will & testament/

   In witness to all & singular the Premisses, I haue set to my hand & seale, this 9th day of August 1677 :

Witness    Josua Moodey/    Ann Moodey/

Bryan Pendleton (his Seale)

   As a Sedule to this my last will & testament, I giue vnto my beloued son James Pendleton, all my land on the East of Wests brooke butting on the great River of Saco, six hundred Acres more or less, my farme & all my land at Cape Porpus, in all three hundred acres in the occupation of Ric : Palmer, all my seuerall yslands in or neare Cape Porpus, y^e one halfe of my stocke of Cattle of w^t sort so euer vpon my farme at Winter Harbour, found after mine & my wiues decease, with all my weareing apparell & one third of my househould goods (except my vtilensills of husbandry)

   And to Mary & Hannah Pendleton daughters to my sayd son James all y^e My lands In Wells, being those Plantations or Lotts bought of Mr ffletcher, Hammond, & West Improued by Joseph Cross, & to each of them one third part of my househould goods, after mine & my wiues decease/ Item : to Bryan Pendleton my Grandson, y^e remajnd^r of my land on Great Ysland/ w^t is Contayned there in is addition to my will, any thing in the sd will notwithstanding/

This Sedule signed & sealed    In ye Presence of vs/    Joseph Dudley/		Bryan Pendleton (his Seale)
Sworn to by Joshua Moody 5 April 1681; recorded 23 April 1681: Inventory returned at £787: 12: 0 by Israell Harding and John Elldridg appraisers, June 23: 1681. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 59, citing Registry of Deeds, 5, 5.