Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

   I James Grant of Kittery In the County of yorke shyre, In New England, being weake In body, yet through gods mercy of a disposed mind, & Memory, Committing my soule to god that gaue it, & my body to the earth to bee decently buried, do declare this to bee my last will & testament as followeth/

   1 : I bequeath vnto Elizabeth Grant daughter of Joane, the wife of Peter Grant of Kittery aforesd, Twenty Acres of Land at the head of my house lott, being at the North East end of it, reserueing a Convenient highway through it into the rest of my Land beyond it & y^e way to lie on that side next Goodman Keys Land, It being the South East side : And also I giue unto the sd Elizabeth Grant Tenn Acres of Land, It being part of that Lott of Land, which I haue at y^e place Called nine Noches/

   2 : I bequeath unto the aforesd Peter Grant Senjo^r of Kittery my best cloath sujte, & Cloake, & my searge sujte, & my great broad axe & a narrow axe, & my square axe, & Compasses my ads, & an Inch & an halfe Auger, & an Inch Auger/

   3 : I giue unto James Grant the sonn of Peter Grant aforesd, my fyrelocke Muskett, & my sword, & belt/

   4 : I giue unto Peter Grant the sonn of the aforesd Peter Grant, one Heffer of one yeare ould/

   5 : I bequeath unto John Wincoll Junjo^r, one steare of one years ould and vpwards/

   6 : I bequeath unto Elizabeth my Loueing wife, all the rest of my Estate, of dwelling house, out houseing Oarchard, with all my Lands whither y^e home stall, or out lands, with all my Cattle of all sorts, & all my houshould Goods, tooles, vtensills, with in doores, or with out, or w^tsoeuer is not bequeathed as abouesd/

   7 : I do nominate & appoynt my loueing wife Elizabeth Grant, to bee the soole Executrix of this my last Will & testament, & do desire & Impoure my Loueing father in law, James Euerell of Boston, to bee ouerseere of this my last Will, & for Confirmation hereof haue sett too my hand & seale, this twelth day of November : 1679 :

Witness Niuen Aignew       his marke X    John Wincoll/		James Grant (his seale)
Acknowledged 12 Nov 1679; Sworn to by Aignew 19 March 1683-4; Allowed in Court 25 March 1684; recorded 2 April 1684; Inventory returned at £154: 10: 0 by John Wincoll and John Key, appraisers, 19 Mch 1683-4, who state that James Grant deceased Nov. 6 1683. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 78, citing Registry of Deeds, 5, 28.