Maine Wills

 From Maine Court Records (1661-93)

In the name of god Amen/

   I william Smyth of Black : Poynt Planter, aged 72 or y^r abouts, being of Prfect Memory & mind doe by these make my last will & testament in manner & forme following, this 25 Twenty day of Septem^br In the yeare of grace 1661 : Inp^s I doe first appoynt, ordayne my Loueing frejnd, Mr Henery Jocelin my true & Lawfull executor to dispose of my Estate after my decease in manner hereafter expressed/

   I will & bequeath vnto my bible two of my best oxen & Two Cows/ The other part of my Estate, my funerall Charges being first payd, I bequeath vnto my brother Richd Smyth, liueing at y^e Citty of Westchester In England, My sister Elizabeth, & sister Mary of England, both to bee shared æqually between them, or the surviuers of them/ but If they bee dead I giue It sooly to my executor/ to testify the treuth here of I doe herevnto set my hand & seale this 25^th of Octob^r 1661 :

Witnesses hervnto,    Jos : Scottow/    Margeret Jocelyn/		William Smyth (his Seale)
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses 3 July 1676; recorded 27 March 1677; Inventory returned by Mr Henry Jocelyn 18 July 1676, who stated that William Smyth was aged 88 and died in March 6175-6 [read 1675-6]. Debts due from Mr Scottow, Henery Watts, Nathan Bedford, Mordicah Crafford. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 35, citing Court Records, G, 48.