Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

   This 17^th day of August : 1660 : I Robert Jordan do ascertajne on my oath, that I Heard Mr Arthur Mackeworth on his death bedd declare that his full will & testament was, that his wife Mis Jane Mackeworth should by her wisedome dispose of his whoole estate æqually as neare as might bee betweene her former husbands children & the Children betweene them, & In Case any shortnesse was on either side, that Itt should rather bee on his owne Childrens side/ & further sayth not onely the desease of the sd Mr Arthur Mackeworth was before the submission of these Towns of Sarbrough & Falmouth to the Massatusetts authority/ vnder my hand, & on my oath/   by mee Robert Jordan/