Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

July 21 ano Dom : 1687

   This being the last Will and testament of the sd Silvester Stover liueing in Cap nadick belonging to york in the province of Maine in New England, who being bound by the grace of god into old England Doe here Giue and Will vnto my sone John Stover my right and title that I haue in the Cape neck in Whole after the decease of my wife

   And I doe here confirme vnto my sone dependance Stover, Three score and ten acres of land where his house is vp the river lieing in Cape Nadick

   And to my sone Josiah Stover I giue to him the new pasture lieing vppon the right hand of the lane goeing from my house to yorke and so vppon the Southard side of the way to run west south west so farr as my bownes go. and the salt Marsh belonging to it lieing vp the river, after the decease of my wife

   And the houses and the rest of my land that is not Disposed of I will and Giue vnto my sone George Stover and If my sone John Stover please he shall haue that Libertie for to change with my sone George Stover for what land and houses which he haue at the Cape neck for that which my sone George Stover haue here after the decease of my wife.

   And as for the Moueables I leaue to my Wife for to Dispose amongst the rest of my Children as shee see Good at her decease Wher vnto I here haue sett my hand and fixed my seale in the presence of

Signed Sealed    delivered in the presence    of Nathaniell Clayce    Henry Goddard		Silvester Stover [his mark]
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses 14 Feby 1689-90; Inventory returned at £731: 07: 00 by Elizabeth Stover, widow, 17 Feby 1689-90— Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 12, citing Court Records, D, 26.