Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

   Know all men by these Presents that I Thomas Cammocke of Black Poynt in the Province of Mayn in New England In America Gentleman : for diverse good Causes & Considerations therevnto mee especially moueing, as alsoe for the somme of fiuety pounds sterling, to mee In hand payd before the Insealing & delivering of this Prsent Deede, do at this tyme declare my last will & testament, where in next after my soul bequeathed into the hands of Almighty god my sauio^r & Redeemer, I doe freely & for the Causes abouesd, giue & bequeath all my lands at Black : Poynt aforesayd togeather with all my bujldings, goods Cattle & Chattles, & all other my Prson^ll Estate w^tsoever, vnto my Wellbeloved frejnd Hene : Jocelyn Esq^r, to bee by him possessed Immediately after my decease out of this life, & after the decease of Margerett Cammocke my now wife, & from thence forth to bee his own Lands & goods for ever, to him his heyres & assignes, according to the true intent & meaning of these Presents, for w^ch cause I the sd Thomas Cammocke haue appoynted this my last Will to bee made by deed Irrevocable; And for the true Prformance hereof I do bind my selfe & my wife Margerett in the summe of one hundred pounds Sterling, vnto the sd Hene : Jocelyn his heyres & assignes, provided always I Thomas Cammock do reserve onely out of this my deed of gyft, fiue hundred Acers of the sayd Lands to bestow at my pleasure, the bonds there of to begin at the River of Spurwinke, & soe taking the breadth y^rof vp the sayd River, soe fare as the bounds of my Pattent goeth, & soe towards blac : Poynt till fiue hundred acers bee ended; And alsoe all my part of Cows & rother Cattle now in my possession; And for all the rest of my lands & goods aforesd, I do agajne vpon Mature deberation bestow at the tyme aforesayd vpon the sayd Hene Jocelyn, whom I do by this my deed declare to bee my heyre of all my lands & goods, except before excepted in this Present Deede. In witness w^rof, I the sd Thom^s Cammocke with the free Consent of my wife Margerett haue caused this Present writeing to bee my Act & deed & haue therevnto subscribed both our hands & seales this 2und day of Septem^br : 1640 :

Sealed & Delivered with one    bason of Olcumy in lew of    all the Rest, the Property    of wch was altered In the    Presence of vs,    George Cleeues    Richard Tucker/		Thomas Cammock (his seal) Margerett Cammock (her seal)
Recorded 20 Sept. 1670; Inventory returned at £56 (including 500 acres of land only) by Richard Foxwell and William Smyth appraisers 14 Oct. 1643. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 53, citing Registry of Deeds, 2, 84.