Maine wills. 1640-1760, Vol. II, Part 6

Author: Sargent, William M. (William Mitchell), 1848-1891. cn; Maine Historical Society; York County (Me.). Court of Probate
Publication date: 1887
Publisher: Portland [Me.] Brown, Thurston & company
Number of Pages: 968


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Item. I give and bequeath to my Son Francis Raynes all that Land whereon he now lives and which he now possesses to him and his Heirs forever. But if it Should please God that he Should never Return from the present Expedition my Will is that only the House and Barn Should be reck- oned as his Estate and that one Hundred pounds old Tenor Should be paid by my Executor to his Child.


Item. I give to my two Daughters Eleanor Marston and Hannah Gerrish Fifty pounds apiece old Tenor besides what they have already receiv'd


Item. I give to my other three Daughters Lucy Cutt Sarah and Eunice each one Hundred pounds old Tenor.


Item. It is my Will that my Son Francis Shall pay One Hundred and Fifty pounds and my Son Robert all the rest of the above Legacies.


. And I do hereby constitute my Son Robert the Sole Exe- cutor of this my last Will and Testament.


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Witness my Hand and Seal this twenty ninth Day of May Anno Domini 1745.


Signed Sealed published pronounced and de- clared by Nath1 Raynes as his last Will & Tes- tam' in presence of David Bennet Jeremiah Bragdon Sarah Sayward


The Rasure made Line 21 and the word Fifty written before Signing. Nathaniel Raynes (seal)


Probated 6 July 1747. Inventory returned, 2 Oct. 1747, at £5713 : 9 : 0, old tenor, by Samuel Sewall, Joseph Holt and Ralph Farnam, appraisers.


Probate Office, 7, 110.


In the Name of God Amen. The Thirteenth Day of July Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty three I Elizabeth Curtise of Kittery in the County of York in ye Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Widow being aged and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God; Therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament ; That is to Say, principally and first of all, I give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it ; and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named, Nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the Mighty Power of God : And as touching Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of the Same in the following Manner and Form.


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Imprimis. I give to my well beloved Cousin Maj' Nicho- las Shapleigh Esq' his Heirs and Assigns foreuer all my Land or Lands Scituate and being in the Township of Kittery on the Eastern Side of the River called and knowu by the Name of Spruce Creek, excepting one Acre of Land belonging to the Land whereon I now dwell and possess at the Corner thereof lying by and joining to the High Way and Joseph Willsons Land ; provided and on Condition that the Said Nicholas Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns do make and maintain in good Repair all the Fences belonging to the Said Land during my Natural Life. I also give to my Said Cousin Nicholas Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns forever all my Right in the Mill Stream, at Spruce Creek aforesd and all my Right in the Mill or Mills Standing on the Said Stream ; and also all my Right in the Damn and half an Acre of Land joining to ye Said Dam on the Western Side of the Said Creek ; And also all my Housing Barn and other Build- ings which I have on my Land on the Eastern Side of the Said Spruce Creek, provided and on Condition that he the Said Nicholas Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns Maintain the Housing Barn and all other Buildings on the abovesaid Land as also my part of the Mill or Mills and Dam in good repair during my Natural Life.


2V I give to my well beloved Cousin Iohn Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns forever all my Land which I have in the Township of Kittery aforest Scituate lying and being on the Western Side of of Spruce Creek commonly called and known by ye Name of Oak Point Farm ; excepting one half Acre which I have in these presents given to my Cousin Nie Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns. I also give to my Said Cousin John Shapleigh his Heirs and Assigns forever all the Buildings of every Denomination that are upon the Land in these presents given to him his Heirs and Assigns : provided & on Condition that he. the Said John Shapleigh his Heirs &c. do make and maintain the Housing and Fences on the Said Land in good Order and lawful during my nat- ural Life.


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31y I give to Elizabeth Dill the Wife of Joseph Dill her Heirs and Assigns forever one Acre of the Land whereon I now dwell & possess Scituate and being in the Township of Kittery aforesd joining to the High Way that leads to the Point and Ioseph Willsons Land to be laid out on a Square.


41y After my funer' Charges and just Debts are paid and discharged all the residue of my Estate (if there be any- thing remaining) I give to the Children of my two Sisters Sarah Shapleigh and Mary Rice Decd or those that Shall legally represent them, to be divided in equal Shares among them.


Finally I constitute make and ordain my Cousins Nicholas Shapleigh and John Shapleigh my Executors of this my last Will and Testament; And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and Bequests and Executors by me in any Ways before named willed and bequeath, ratifying and con- firming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written. Signed Sealed published Elizabeth


her Elisa& Curtise (a) mark


. pronounced and declared by the Said Elizabeth


Curtise as her last Will


& Testamt in the presence


of us the Subscribers his Benjamin X Hammons mark his . John X Moore mark Edmund Hammons Iobn NewMarch


Probated 20 Oct. 1747. Inventory returned 25 Oct. 1747, at £748: 11: 9, old tenor, by Tobias Fernald, Nath' Remick and Thomas Rogers, appraisers.


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Probate Office, 7, 119.


In the Name of God Amen. The last Will and Testa- ment of William Vaughan of Damariscotty in the County of York Gent" I William Vaughan by Gods Grace being in perfect Health both of Mind and Body, and knowing ye un- certainty of the time of my Life, and my bounden Duty to Set my House in order before I die, Do appoint this to be my last Will hereby revoking all others by mo made here- tofore, I give up my Soul to God earnestly looking to him for Acceptance thro the alone Merits of the Lord Jesus Christ, and my Body to the Earth with the Cheapest Man- ner of Burial : My worldly Estate I dispose of in the fol- lowing Manner.


1 I Will that my Debts be paid in convenient Season by my Executors as hereafter directed and named.


2. To my Hond Mother Madm Eliza Vaughan during her Life and in the Time of Peace and my Saw Mills going at Damariscotty, I give Fifty pounds per annum out of the Incomes thereof.


3 To my Brother Elliot Vaughan I give all the Remaind' of my Estate in Possession or Reversion in the Province of New Hampshire, after my Fathers Debts & Legacys, and my own Debts & Legacys as hereafter mentioned are paid, To him and his Heirs forever.


4 I give to each of my married Sisters & their Husbands a pair of Gloves, vizt Iohn & Sarah Ross, William & Eliza- beth Bennet, Hunking & Margaret Wentworth, and Cutt & Mary Shannon.


5 I give to my Sister Iane Vaughan one Thousand pounds to be paid in Money or Lands; viz' out of Lands in the Town of Portsmouth.


6. I Will that my Debts to M' Bowdoin Capt. Osborne and others contracted on my Fathers Accot be paid out of my New Hampshire Estate.


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7. I will that the Debts by me contracted on Account of my Estates at Mintinicus Damariscotta Sheepscott, Harring- ton and Pemaquid be paid by my Executors hereafter named out of the Same.


8. My Estates in lands at Mintinicus Damariscotty, Pema- quid Harrington and Sheepscot viz of Sheepscot in Partner- ship with the Heirs of Me John Nelson of Long Island in ye County of Suffolk Decd viz Half the Tract of Land Sold by Sonobus Indian Sagamore to Sylvanus Davis, For which they are to give a Deed I give and bequeath in equal Fifths to my Brother Elliot Vaughan, my Sister Jane Vaughan, and to Iane Mary & Elizabeth the Daughters of John and Martha Campbel of Damariscotty to them & their Heirs forever in the following Manner, vizt that if Elliot Vaughan dies without Children and his Fifth part in these Estates is undisposed of his part is to descend to his Sister Jane & her Heirs and so Iane's Part to descend to her Brother Elliot in like Circumstances And if Iane Mary or Elizabeth Campbell die before Age the Survivor or Survivors Shall have the Decds Estate, and if they three die under Age without Chil- dren what is bequeath'd to them Shall go to Elliot & Jane Vaughan in equal Shares as given to them by me.


9. I give to M' John & Ms Martha Campbell all the Goods in my House at Damariscotty, also I give to them Fifty pounds per annum out of the Produce of my Mills at Dam- ariscotty during the Life of one & both of them.


11. I give to David Cargill Esq' of Sheepscot out of my Right in the Eastern Tract of Land at Sheepscot (that was Sold by Sonobus to Silvanus Davis) Two Hundred Acres to be made Secure to him and his Heirs forever when the Deed is given.


12. I do hereby give and bequeath to the old Settlers at Walpole viz: William Iones, The Wife of Robert Morrison, James Huston and John Lermond to each of them & their Heirs forever, one Hundred Acres of Land in the District


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called Walpole, whereof Ten Acres to be Meadows, all to be Set off to them by my Executors, on Condition that they the forementioned Livers at Walpole give my Executors Quit Claims of all the Remainders of those Lands, that they may afterwards live like Christians in Peace.


13. I do appoint my Brother Elliot Vaughan & Mr Iohn Campbell aforesd Executors and my Sister Iane Vaughan & Martha Campbell aforesd Executrixes of this my last Will & Testament, to whom if there be any Residue of my Estate I give the Same. And in Consideration of the Premisses have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this twenty third Day of March Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty four &c.


Signed Sealed & published W. Vaughan (ses))


in presence of Ios : Calef John Wheelwright jun" Nath1 Wheelwright.


Probated 20 Oct. 1747. Jane Vaughan 2 Mch 1746 declines the trust of Executrix, but on 5 June 1747, she as Jane Noble, petitions to be and is restored by the Probate Court in Boston. Inventory returned 5 April 1748, at £6098: 11: 0, old tenor by Alex: Nikels, John Ballnatyen and William McClelland, appraisers.


Probate Office, 7, 121.


In the Name of God Amen. I Ebenezer Sampson of Arun- del in the County of York, and in the Province of the Mas- sachusetts Bay in New England Husbandman calling to Mind the Frailty and the uncertainty of humane Life, realizing it that Man knoweth neither the time nor the manner of his Death, whether it will be Sudden or foreseen, by Some unex- pected Stroke or by Sickness, and as it is a time of War, and I apprehending my Self exposed and in Danger when about my Work where I dwell, and in going backward &


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forward thro the Woods on my necessary Business, and not knowing but God in his Providence may give me up to the Will of mine enemies number me to the Slaughter and cause me to fall by the Sword, so praying God by his Grace would fit me for a better Life, that so when or in what man- ner Soever Death comes I may be enabled readily to leave the Things of this World, having good hopes of better Things in the World to come, Treasures in the Heavens which none by the Rage & Fury of Enemys Shall ever be deprived of or Separated from; And as to Such Worldly Estate that God hath blessed me with, for & in Considera- tion of the tender Care parental Love and Affection my hond Parents have ever Shown unto me, as I am in a Single State, 'Tis my Will and desire that all I die Seized of Should go to my hond Parents Iames Sampson & Ruth his Wife, whether Real or personal Estate House Lands Creatures or Goods & Chattels, I freely give & bequeath all to them the Sd James and Ruth Sampson to be disposed of by them as they think fit confirming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the twenty fifth Day of April in the Year of Christ our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Forty Six. Signed Sealed published Ebenezer Sampson (seal) pronounced and declared by Ebenezer Sampson as his last Will & Testamt In presence of Ionathan Stone Samuel Williams John Hovey.


Probated 20 Oct. 1747.


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Probate Office, 7, 122.


In the Name of God Amen. I Humphrey Dearing of Arundel in the County of York in His Majts Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Worsted Comber, being in good Health and of a Sound Mind & Memory, Thanks be given to God therefor ; and calling to mind the Mortality of my Body remembring that it is appointed for all Men once to die, & not knowing, as it is a time of War, and an exposed Town in Which I dwell, and as I am now far ad- vanced in Years but I may die quickly & Suddenly, and that I may not when Death comes have my Mind incumbered about Setling my Worldly Affairs, I do now make & ordain this present Will to be my last Will & Testament, wherein principally & first of all, I commend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, hoping thro the Merits Death & Sufferings of our Lord & Saviour Jesus Christ to obtain pardoning Mercy, and a glorious Resurrection to eternal Life ; and my Body I commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named ; And as to the Estate & worldly things which I must be gone from, and which God hath been pleased to endow me with, I giue dispose of & Settle the Same in the following Manner & Form.


Impr : I will that my funeral Charges & all my just Debts Shall be paid & discharged by Humphrey Dearing my dutiful and well beloved Son, whom I now constitute & appoint my Sole and only Executor.


Item. I give and bequeath to Sarah Dearing, my now beloved Wife during the time of her Widowhood one Room in my dwelling House, and all the household Stuff, and my Will is that Humphry my Son yearly & every year, winter a good Cow for her Use which I allow her out of my Stock, that against every Winter he provide for his Mother, three


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Bushels of Meal, and two Thousand of Boards, and find her with Wood at the Door of her House, Sufficient & Suitable for her own Fire : but on her Marriage all this is to cease, and be relinquished by her. من


Item. I give & bequeath to the Said Humphry Dearing my Son my dwelling House in arundel with all my Right Title and interest to the one half part of the Priviledge of the Stream in Sail Town called Birrets River with one half of a Saw, and a fourth part of the Saw Mill Standing on the lower Falls behind my House, with one half part of the Priviledge of building a Mill or Mills hereafter, with all my Priviledge of laying Logs & Lumber on the Southern Side of Sª Mills, and as I am a Proprietor the Priviledge of Cut- ting Timber on the Town Commons, This my Propriety with the other Priviledges aforesd I give to him the Said Humphry Dearing his Heirs and Assigns forever.


Item. I give to the Said Humphry my Son a certain Tract of Land in Said Town which I bought of Thomas Wheelwright in the Year 1743. containing about twenty Acres, butted as the Deed declares, and also my Oxen, and with them all the Wood & Iron Work Chains Yoke &c. for fixing out a Team to Said Humphry & heirs & Assigns forever.


Item A Tract of Land of an Hundred Acres that was given me by the Town on March 29, 1725. and laid out in a Square the 16. of Decem' following, by Thos Huff Lot layer, which begins at a Maple Stump, at the Corner of Deac" Robinson's Land near a Brook that runs into Batson's River, & runs West & by North 80 Rods to 3 Birches marked on 4 Sides H.D., from whence it runs North by East, being bounded all along by the Land of Said Robin- son till the Hundred Acres be compleated all which I give to Said Humphry & his Heirs and Assigns forever.


Item, Six Acres of Marsh which on the 13th of June 1721.


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I bought of Ebenezer Barton, bounded on the South East Corner by a Stake & heap of Stones, then runs Northwest- wardly to another Stake & Heap of Stones by a Ditch, then Northeasterly by Said Ditch to a Small Creek running into the Main Creek, thence running Easterly as the Creek runs to a Stake in Ionathan Stones Line ; this Plot of Marsh I do now give and bequeath to Humphry Dearing my Son to him & his Heirs and Assigns forever.


Item. To my five Daughters Dorothy Adams, Mary Thomas, Abigail Hutchins Judith Lasell & Elizabeth Em- mons for whom at times I have been doing all my Days, to them I give an Equal Share & Proportion in all the remain- ing part of my Estate, The Household Furniture after their Mother hath done with it, and also an equal Share or part in whatever Creatures or Lands Shall be found to be to me belonging I give & dispose of it all among them and their Heirs & Assigns forever.


And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannul, all & every other former Testament, Will Legacy Bequest & Executor by me in any Manner heretofore named, ratifying & confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Tes- tament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the thirteenth Day of April in the Year of Christ pur Lord God everlasting, One Thousand Seven Hundred & forty seven, and in the twentieth year of the Reign of our Gracious Sovereign Lord George the Second by the Grace of God King of England Scotland France & Ireland De- fender of the Faith &c.


Signed Sealed & Delivered in presence of us three John Hovey Sam" Robinson Susanna Hovey


Humphry Dearing ( Loc. ) N : B : In as much as no Intail is design'd by this Will, and yet as ye Word Assigns is all along left out, which makes it look. as if it was intail'd, the Reader « is desired to take Notice, That ye Word (Assigns) which is


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interlin'd in line 27. in line 30. in L. 35. in L. 4. & in L. 45, and also ye Words (my Pro- priety) in Line 27. were in- terlined before Signing.


Probated 20 Oct. 1747. Inventory returned 20 Oct. 1747, at £136: 3: 3, by Samuel Robin- son, James Sampson and Samuel Williams, appraisers.


Probate Office, 7, 125.


In the Name of God Amen. I George Collings of Kittery in the County of york in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Fisherman having been by many repeated Calls of Divine Providence put in Mind of the Mor- tality of my Body & the uncertainty of this Life, and being of a good perfect and of disposing Memory, Thanks be given unto a gracious God therefor, Do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament, revoking and disannulling all other Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made either by Word or Writing. And first of all, I resign & recommend my Soul into the Hands of God hoping for the Pardon & remission of all my Sins thro Iesus Christ my Redeemer, and my Body I commit to the Earth to be buried in a decent christian manner at the Discretion of my Executors, Noth- ing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the mighty Power of God. And as to Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with, I give demise and dispose of the Same in the Man- ner following viz™


Impr I give and bequeath unto my Daughter Mary Col- lings all and Singular my Estate both real & personal of what Nature kind and Quality soever it be, either Houses Barnes Ware-Houses, Lands Vessels Goods Wares Moneys Merchandize, Bonds Mortgages, Book Debts Notes or what-


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ever else I am in Possession of, and am intitled unto at this present Bequest, to her own proper Use Benefit and Behoof & Disposal and to her Assigns forever; But and if in Case She depart this Life before She be lawfully married or arrive to lawful age, I do bequeath unto my Sister Elizabeth Heard of Clindleigh in the County of Devon in Great Britain all the above bequeathed Premisses to her and her Heirs law- fully begotten of her Body ; and if the Said Heard Should die without lawful Issue, then I give & bequeath all the above Premisses with all my Estate both Real personal unto Charles Frost jun' of Kittery in the County of york afore- said Gent™ his Heirs & Assigns forever to his and their only proper Use Benefit & Behoof forever.


I do ordain constitute and appoint the Said Charles Frost with Richard Cutt Iun' of Kittery aforesd Esqr & Mr Samuel Lunt of Kittery aforesd Cordwainer my Executors of this my last Will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal this twenty fifth Day of April in the tenth year of His Majestys Reign Anno Domini 1737. Signed Sealed published and his


pronounced in presence of us, George


John Blunt


WVu ffrost William Clark Rebecca Donnell


mark Cr Collings (seal)


Probated 11 Nov. 1747. Inventory returned 8 Dec. 1747, at £30: 4: 7, by Timothy Ger- rish, Roger Mitchell and William Dearing, appraisers.


Probate Office, 7, 134.


In the Name of God Amen. The Sixth Day of December in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred & Thirty four I John Manson of Kittery in the County of York, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New Eng-


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land Mariner, being weak in Body but of perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be given unto God; therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die Do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament, that is to Say principally and first of all, I give recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it; and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent & Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Executor, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection I Shall receive the Same again by the almighty Power of God; And as touching Such Worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dis- pose of the Same in the following Manner and Form.


Impr I will that all my just Debts be paid by my Execu- tor hereafter named.


Item. I give and bequeath unto my well-beloved Son Samuel Manson, whom I likewise constitute make & ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, all my Land lying on the South Side of a Brook of Water running thro my Land near the Middle over which there is a Bridge together with all the Building thereon and if the Said Samuel Manson See fitting he may Sell it to his Brother Joseph Manson or otherways it is to go to his eldest Surviv- ing Heir, the Said Samuel Manson is to provide all neces- sarys for his Mother Lydia Manson in Sickness & Health and to provide for her a comfortable Maintanance during her Life ; I likewise give to my Son Samuel Manson all my moveable Estate which I do not herein mention.


Item. I give & bequeath unto my well beloved Son Joseph Manson all my Land on the North side of the aforesaid Brook, and if he Sees fitting he may Sell it to his Brother Samuel Manson or otherways it is to go to his eldest Sur- viving Heir, I also give to my Said Son Joseph Manson one Bed & Beding and one pot and two pewter Platters.


Item. I give & bequeath unto my well beloved Son John Monson one Bed & Beding and one Cow and Priviledge to


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keep a Cow on the afores' Land and convenient Priviledge to live in the House I also will that my Executor should take Care & provide for him in Case he cannot provide for himself, and in Case he Should marry, my Executor is to pay him Sixty pounds in Money at two Year after my Decease and the aforesd Cow & Bed & Beding which Shall clear him from my Estate.


Item. I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Daugh- ter Lydia Manson Fifty pounds in Money to be paid to her by her Brother Joseph levied out of that which I bequeathed to him to be paid Twenty five pounds at one year after my Decease & Twenty five pounds at Two Year after my Decease, and also one Bed & Beding one Cow & Calf one Brass Kettle & Skillet and three pewter Platters.


Item I will that if my Said Sons Joseph Monson & Sam- uel Couson Should either of them decease the Surviving Should have what was bequeathed to the Deceased fulfilling every Article above mentioned. And I do hereby disallow and disannul all and every other Wills Legacys Bequests whatsoever by me made Ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament.


Signed Sealed published & pronounced Iohn Manson (seal) by the sd Iohn Monson as his last Will


& Testament, In the presence of


in the presence of Us


W= Pepperrell


Ios : Plaisted


Iohn Watkins


George ffrost


Probated 5 Jany 1747. Inventory returned 28 March 1747, at £1112 : 13 : 8, old tenor, by Tobias Fernald, Thomas Rogers and John Godsoe, appraisers.


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Probate Office, 7, 136.


In the Name of God Amen. The fifteenth Day of Febru- ary Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred & forty two/ three, I Nathaniel Fernald of Kittery in the County of York and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Husbandm" being aged and weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God, there- fore calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and know- ing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament, That is to Say prin- cipally, and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God, that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent & Christian manner at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named, Nothing doubting but at the great & General Resurrection, I shall receive the Same again by the almighty Power of God, and as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give & dispose of the Same in ye following Manner & Form.




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