John Nason

• General Notes
  • From Kittery (Berwick) ME.
    
    His children are listed as Margaret, John, Eunice, Abraham, Abigail, Rachel and Uriah. Margaret married Alexander Jellison, Eunice married Ebenezer Thompson, Abraham married Abigail Knight and John married Sarah Jenkins.
    
    He probably died while a soldier at Cape Breton. Children bapt. 1731-44: Margaret, John, Eunice, Uriah. ["Old Kittery and Her Families" by Everett S. Stackpole : Lewiston ME:1903, 629]
    [Noyes states the John who married Margaret Lord is a son of of Baker and Elizabeth (Hatch) Nason.]
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    Will recorded York co: Nason, John, April 4, 1748 ["Maine Historical and Genealogical Recorder" 9 volumes: 9-114]
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    John, b. Oct. 24, 1704; m. Margaret Lord; settled at Berwick. ["Hawley and Nason Ancestry" by Elizabeth Hawley Everett : Chicago:1929:36]
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    WILL of JOHN NASON, 2 Mar 1744 - 4 Apr 1748:
    
    I, John Nason, late of Kittery now of Berwick bound on an Expedition to Cape Breton, make this my last Will & & Testament vizt
    
    I make and appoint my Wife Margaret the Sole Executrix of this my Will, and hereby give devise and bequeath unto her all my Estate Real & personal in any place or places to be by her used improved and disposed of in any Manner as She Shall See meet & Iudge convenient for her own Support and the Support and maintainance and Education of my Children which I leaue with her. I hereby declaring that her disposing of or Selling of my Land at her own Pleasure Shall be good as if I my Self had done the Same. Witness my Hand & Seal the Second Day of March Anno Domini 1744.
    Iohn Nason (seal)
    
    Signed Sealed pronounced & declared
    by Iohn Nason to be his last Will
    and Testament in presence of
    Ios: Hearl Sarah Hearl
    Richard Emery, Noah Emery
    
    Probated 4 April 1748. Inventory returned 1 July 1748, at £63:11:9, new tenor, by Abraham Lord, Richard Shackley junr and Noah Emery, appraisers.