Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

   In the name of god Amen march y^e thirtie first one thousand six hundred ninty & one to all persons to whom this shall or may come Know y^e: that I william more of yorke in the province of Maine being sick of body but of Good and perfect Memory thankes be to god for it, Doe make this my last Will and testament in manner & forme as followeth

   Imp^r: I giue & bequeath my poore imortall soule to god that gaue it to me hopeing through the only merits of our lord & sauior Jesus Christ to Inherit everlasting happiness/ And I giue & bequeath my body to the earth wherof it was made therin to be decently interred

   I giue & bequeath to my loueing wife Dorathy More all my house, lands, goods Chattells & Moueables as also all Debts due to me.

   I giue to my sone John More one Cow to be Delivered within a twelue month after my Decease.

   I giue to my Daughter Elizabeth Trafton fiue shillings in good pay within a twelue month

   I giue to my sone Robert More one shilling in good pay

   I giue to my Daughter Sarah Welcom fiue shillings in good pay

   I giue to my sone William More fiue shillings in good pay

   I giue to my Daughter Elianor More fiue shillings in good pay

   I giue to my Daughter Ann More fiue shillings in good pay

   I giue to my Daughter Mary More fiue shillings in good pay

   I giue to my sone Thomas More five shillings in good pay and If he proues a good loueing & Dutifull sone to his mother and liue with her Dureing her Naturall life then I giue & vnto my sone Thomas More my house that I now liue in and the land that I haue to him and his heires for ever after the Decease of his Mother

   And I leaue my wife Dorathy More my sole Executrix Witness my hand & seale the Day and yeare aboue written

Witness    Francis Tucker    Rort X Souden his marke    Sarah X Anger her marke		Willm: More (A Seal)          his marke
Sworn to by attesting witnesses 2 June 1691; recorded 3 June 1691; Inventory returned at £159: 07: 0 by Jesper Pulman and Arthur Came appraisers 12 May 1691. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 93, citing Registry of Deeds, 5, 57.