Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

In the Name of God Amen/

   I Geo : Knight of Scarbrough sicke in body, but Prfect In Memory, thankes bee to god, do make this my last Will & Testament/ Item : I do giue & bequeath my body to y^e ground, & my soule to god, that gaue It/ Item : I giue to my wife one 3d of my goods & Cattle, & the other 2 thirds to my sonn Nathan, & my daugeter Elizabeth/ & If my wife should Marry, that then they shall putt in security for the Prformance hereof/ witness by my hand this 5^th day of Aprill & in y^e yeare of o^r Lord 1671 :

Witness    Hen : Watts/    The marke of    Will : Burrage/ X		The marke of Geo :    Knight
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses Oct—1671; recorded 10 Nov. 1672: Inventory returned at £87: 10: 0 by Henry Watts and William Burrage, appraisers, 27 May 1671, and brought in by the widow Ellner (then the wife of Henry Brookin,) 10 Nov. 1672; Debts due from the Estate to Mr Scottow; Munioy; Jon Tomline; Richd Willing; Richd Moore; Mr Watts; Jon Davess; Tho: Hammett; Jon Mills and Tho: Hayley, aggregating £9: 4: 0— Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 23, citing Court Records, E, 66.