Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

In the name of god Amen

   I George Gray of Barwick in the province of maine in new England being sick and weake of body yet through gods mercyes sound of mind and Memory Doe declare this to be my last

Will and Testament

   Imp^r I Humbly render my soule to god that gaue it and my body to the Earth by decent buriall

   It^m I bequeath vnto Sarah my loueing wife for her vse and the vse of her famely for ever and alsoe the one halfe of all my lands so long as she shall Continew in her Widdowhood

   It^m I bequeath unto my sone Robert Gray the other halfe of all my lands to receiue them into his own hands at the age of one and twenty yeares and to be & remaine to him and his heires for ever

   It^m It is my Will that my sone George gray, If ever it shall please god to deliver him out of captivity shall haue and Enjoy that halfe of my lands giuen to his mother for the time her Widdowhood or after her Death or Marriage and If my sone George Gray shall not returne from captivity, then I giue the said halfe of my lands to my two sones Alexander Gray & James Gray in equall partnership after the Death or Marriage of their mother

   It^m for my cattell I giue them all to my foresaid wife only my sone Robert to haue the vse of the two oxen when he shall haue occasion of them for his own worke

   It^m I Doe hereby Nominate and appoint my foresd loving Wife Sara Gray to be the sole Executrix of this my last Will and testament for confirmation whereof I the aforesd George Gray haue herevnto set my hand and seale the one & thirtieth Day of March Anno Domini. 1692

Sealed Signed & deliverd    in the presence of vs    John Nason       his marke X    Abraham Lord    John Wincoll		George Gray his marke (a Seale)
Probated 30 Aug. 1693; recorded 24 Feby 1693-4; Inventory returned at £53 by Abraham Lord and John Cooper appraisers 25 July 1693. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 40, citing Probate Records (belonging to the sixth volume of Court Records), 0, 5.