Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

   I Godfrey Shelden of the Town of Scarborrough alias Black : Poynt Planter aged sixty fiue or y^rabouts being of Prfect memory doe by these make & appoynt my last will & testament in manner & forme following/

   1 : Ip^s : I bequeath my soul to god that gaue it/ my body to y^e earth from whence It was taken, & to bee decently buried/ all my worldly goods & estate I giue as followeth/

   2ly I give vnto my Elldest sun william Shellden the one halfe of my goods within doores & with out, & the halfe of my Land & houseing, forth with to Inioy to him his heyres or assignes, and the other halfe after my decease I give vnto my wife Alce dureing her naturall life, both goods lands & houseing, & after her decease to my sd Elldest sunn William, who I appoynt my executo^r & order him to pay vnto his brother John Shellden foure pounds, & to each of his sisters tenn shillings, & give vnto his wife Rebeccah Tenn shillings, and vnto her brother Samll Scarlett I giue fiue shillings, & I order out of the halfe part of Land houseing & goods I reserve to my selfe & wife the charge of my burijng, debts & Legacys, abouesd, being payd to Confirme the treuth here of, I do here vnto subscribe & sett my hand, this thirteenth of March 1663/4

Witnesseth    Hene : Jocelyn/    The marke of Samuell    Scadlocke/ X		The Marke of Godfrey    Shellden
Sworn to 3 April 1670; recorded 5th of — 1671: Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 20, citing Court Records, E, 46.