Subj:	Kittery PETER STAPLES Will Donaton
 Date:	97-10-14 11:32:25 EDT
 From:	r1sty@erols.com ( C. LaRue)
 Reply-to:	r1sty@erols.com
 To:	Itigapa@aol.com
 
 Dear David,
 
 Dick Bishop will donate the following will to the Maine US GenWeb Archives
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 Source:  Maine Wills; Probate Office, 3, 14; Pages 215-             216.
 
      In the Name of God Amen The Sixth day of June in the Year of our
 Lord one Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighteen I Peter Staple of Kittery in the
 County of Yorke in the Province of the Massa-chusetts Bay in New-England
 Yeoman being aged and weak in Body but of perfect mind and Memory thanks
 be  given unto God Therefore Calling unto mind the Mortality of my Body do
 make  and ordain this my last will and Testament that is to Say Principally
 and  first of all I give & Recommend my Soul into the hands of god that gave
 it.
  And for my Body I commend it to the Earth to be Buried in a Christian
 like and Decent manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, And
 as Touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath Pleased God to bless me
 in this life I give devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner
 and form.
      Impr I give and bequeath to Elizabeth my dearly beloved wife her
 dwelling in and Improvement of my dwelling house during her Natural life
 and also all my household Stuff and other my move-able goods together
 with  the one Third part of the Produce or Income of that my farm and Stock of
 Cattle which I have hereto-fore given and alienated to my Son Peter
 Staple for her Comfort-able Support during her Natural Life and if the
 abovesaid Income Shall not be sufficient to maintain her She hath by these
 Pre-sents Liberty to dispose of and Sell So much of my household goods or other
 moveables as Shall be Sufficient to Support her and what Household Goods
 & and other Moveables Effects Shall remain at her Decease not disposed of
 by her for the aforesaid use I give the Same to my two Sons John & James
 Staples to be Equally Divided betwene them or those that Shall legally
 repre-sent them.
      Item I do by these presents Confirm unto my Sons Peter Staple John
 Staple & James Staple their Heirs and Assignes forever the Lands which I
 have heretofore given them I do also give unto my Said Sons either
 Eighteen pounds in money or Six heat cattle between three and four years of age
 to be equally divided between them or those that Shall Lawfully represent
 them upon Condition of their defraying my funeral Charges and Obliging of
 themselves decently to bury my abovesaid wife Elizabeth their mother
 after her decease.  The abovesaid  money or Cattle to be paid by my Said Son
 Peter to my other Sons John and James Staples their proportion.
      Item I do hereby Constitute make & ordain my three well be-loved
 Sons Peter John & James Staples my Executors of this my Last Will and
 Testament And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke &
 dissanul all and Every other former Testaments Wills and Execu-tors by
 me in any ways before named And Willed Ratifying and Con-firming this and
 no other to be my last Will and Testament In witness whereof I have
 hereunto Set my hand & Seal the day and Years above written
 
                                                   his
 Signed Sealed Published                      Peter     Staple (Seal)  
 Pronounced & Declared by                 mark
 the Said Peter Staple as
 his last Will and Testament
 In the Presents of us
 the Subscribers.
 John Newmarch
 Pavl Wentworth
 Nicolas Weeks
 
      Probated 1 April 1719.  Inventory returned, 3 April 1719, at 18
 [pounds]:16:6, by John Dennit, and Joshua Remick, appraisers.