In the Name of God Amen. This is the will and testement of Me the Subscriber James Patterson of Pownalboro in the County of Lincoln Being of sound mind & perfect Reason
Item I Give My Soul to all mighty God from whome I Received it and My Body to the Earth to be Deasently Buried in sure & Certain Hoops of a Glorious Reserrection to life Eatearnell
Item I Give unto My Dear beloved wife Margrett Patterson all my whole Easteate Reall & personall after My lawful Debts are paid aid my funeral Charges paid and my three Children viz two sons &: one Daughter is to be Hansomly Brough up to Lawfull age out of my Eastate and allso to pay to My son William ten pounds lawfull money and to my Daughter Abigil ten pound lawfull money & allso to my son James Howard Patterson ten pounds Lawfull mony out of my Easteate as the Come of Lawfull Age to be paid to them by my beloved wife Margrett whome I hereby make & ordain My Soul Executrix to this my Last will & testement maid this sixth Day of May 1764
James Patterson (Seal)
Signed Sealled Sealed & Dellv'd In presents of
Mary Bryant
James Howard
Jona. Bryant
Probated 12 Ap., 1769. [I, 163-4.]
(Source:Abstracts from the Records of the Probate Court at Wiscasset, Lincoln County, Maine, 1760-1800, by William D. Patterson, 1895, Pages 92) |
