The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine : 1760 to 1800 (Classic Reprint) by William D. Patterson (2015, Trade Paperback) for sale online

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Excerpt from The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine: 1760 to 1800 This book contains copies of the wills filed in the Probate Court for Lincoln County from the year 1760 to the year 1800 and brief abstracts of the records of the proceedings of that court during the same period. Perhaps the earliest existing record of probate proceedings had in this section of Maine is that found in the record made At a court held at Pemaquid 22 July 1674 by Major Tho: clarke Humphry Dauie: Richd Collicut, and Left Thomas Gardner according to commission and order of the Generall Courte of the Massatusetts collony, Dated in Boston in N: E: 27 day of May 1674, which record is in the following words: Administration to the estate of John Walter a fisherman somtymes Resident at Monheghen & sometymes at Damerells coue who dyed about four yeares since is granted to Geo: Burnett Resident at Monheghen who is to dispose of the same according to the cleerest testimony of, and to whome ye Estate doeth belong & to bring in an Inventory of the same to ye next comission Court, heere, & himselfe as principall & Richd Oliver as Suerty doe bind themselves in fifty pounds a peece that this Order shall bee attended & p'formed. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.