Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Seven (1721-49)

   I Iohn Nason late of Kittery now of Berwick bound on an Expedition to Cape Breton, make this my last Will & & Testament viz^t

   I make and appoint my Wife Margaret the Sole Executrix of this my Will, and hereby give devise and bequeath unto her all my Estate Real & personal in any place or places to be by her used improved and disposed of in any Manner as She Shall See meet & Iudge convenient for her own Support and the Support and maintainance and Education of my Children which I leaue with her. I hereby declaring that her disposing of or Selling of my Land at her own Pleasure Shall be good as if I my Self had done the Same. Witness my Hand & Seal the Second Day of March Anno Domini 1744.

Signed Sealed pronounced & declared    by Iohn Nason to be his last Will    and Testament in presence of    Ios : Hearl Sarah Hearl    Richard Emery, Noah Emery		Iohn Nason (a Seal)
Probated 4 April 1748. Inventory returned 1 July 1748, at £63: 11: 9, new tenor, by Abraham Lord, Richard Shackley junr and Noah Emery, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 568, citing Probate Office, 7, 137.