Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

   The last Will & Testament of Robert Knight of Yorke/

   Concerning the small Estate left by the prouidence of god vnto mee, I doe bequeath & dispose of as followeth/ Inp^rs : fiue Acres of Marsh bounded West & by South, on the one side, & West & by North on the other side, vpland butting on the Land of Thomas Beeson, & soe backe vnto the swampe vntill It come to a Prcell of Land of Mr Samuell Mauericks, with an house & barne on the sayd Land, of Robert Knights, alsoe two Cows & a bull all w^ch as aboue expressed, alsoe w^tsoeuer else shall be found to mee belonging, on or in the sayd house land or barne, I do whoolely & for euer bequeath, vnto my sonn Richd Knight liueing in Boston, & to his Assignes for euer/ In witness of all which as aboue written, I haue here vnto sett my hand & seale this 23d day of June 1676 :

Owned & Delivered    In the Prsence of    Nicholas Willmott/    his marke X    John Tucker/    William Bartholmew/		The marke of Robert Knight (Locus Sigilli)
Sworn to by the attesting witness 24 Aug 1676; recorded 28 Feby 1678. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 56, citing Registry of Deeds, 3, 37.