In The Name of God Amen: the Twenty Ninth Day o'f May 1761, I Nath'll Donnell of George Town, Gentleman In the County of Lincoln, Being very Sick & Week In body butt of Perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be to God therefore Calling Unto Mind the Mortality of my Body & Knowing that it is Appointed for all Men Once to Dye Do Make & Ordain This my Last Will & Testement that is for to say Principally & first of All I Give and Recomend my Soul Into the Hands of God that Gave it & for my body I Recomend it to The Earth to be Buried In a Christian Like manner at the Discreation of my Executor Nothing Doubting but at the Generall Resurrection I shall Receive the same by the Mighty Power of God—& as Touching Such Worldly Estate Wherewith it has Pleased to Bless me In this Life I Give Devise and Dispose of the same In the following Manner & form Imprimis It is my will & I Do Order that In the first Place all My Just Debts & Funerall Charges be paid & satisfied
Item I Give To my well Beloved wife Elizabeth the Income of all My Estate During Her Life & After Her Decease she is for To Give Unto my Daughter Elizabeth all the Housold Stuff—& Likewise I Give Unto my Wife all my Cattle sheep & stock for To be at Her Dispoasall as She shall think proper—& Likewise I Do Appoint my Wife Elizabeth my Sole Executor.
Item I Give & Bequeath Unto my Well Beloved Sons Benjamin-& Thomas All my Lands Where I Now Dwell Bounded on Long Reach & Runing Over to New Meadow River & for the same for to be Devided Between them: Each One Half & for them Two. I Appoint that they Choose a Committee for to Devide the Same if they Cannot Agree them Selves—
Item I Order & Appoint that my Two Sons Benjamin & Thomas pay Unto my Son Nathanell thirteen pounds six shillings & Eight Pence Lawfull Money: & Likewise Unto my Daughter Elizabeth Six pounds thirteen & four Pence Lawfull Money to be paid by Them after the Decease of my Wife—& Furthermore I Give & Bequeath Unto my Son Benjamin all my Right Title & Interest In an Island Lying & Known By the Name of Jewells Island In Casco bay So Called—
Item I Give & Bequeath Unto my Son Thomas an Island Lying In Sheepscoot River Where my Son Thomas build a House Lying Near to Resqneaghean Island or Parkers Island so Called—
Item I Doe Hereby make a Reserve out of the Lands I have Bequeathed Unto my Two sons Benjamin & Thomas a Certain Piece of Land Where the Meeting House Now stands for the Use & Service of said Parrish, the Same Containing about Three Quarters of one Acre or thereabouts
1 Do Hereby Uterly Disallow & revoke & Disannull all & Every Other former Testaments, Wills Legaces & Executors by Me In Any Way*. Before this And No Other to be my Last will & Testament
In Witness Whereof I have Hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the Day & Year Above Written
Nathaniel Donnell (Seal)
Signed Sealed Published Pronounced & Declared By the said Nath'll Donnell as his Last Will & Testament In the Presence of Us the Subscribers,
Sam'HTodd
Meecres Carr
His
James J M Mickels
Mark
Probated 8 Dec, 1761. [I, 9.]
Inventory by John Shaw, Elisha Shaw and James Michaels, 14 June 1762, ,£222 : 15 : 10. [I, 23.]
(Source:Abstracts from the Records of the Probate Court at Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, 1760-1800, by William D. Patterson, 1895, Pages pg 53-55) |
