Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Five (1725-42)

   In The Name of God Amen the twenty ninth Day of August 1726. I John East of Falm^o in Caso Bay in the County of York & Province of y^e Massach^ts Bay Marriner being sick & weak of Body, but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given to God. Therefore calling to mind y^e mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make & Ordain this my last will & Testament, that is to say principally & first of all I give & recomend my Soul into y^e hands of God who gave it; and my Body I recommend to y^e Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executrix, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection I shall receive y^e same again by y^e mighty power of God. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to Bless me in this Life I Give demise & Dispose of y^e same in y^e following manner & form. I Give unto my true & well beloved Wife Mary whom I Constitute make & Ordain my sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament, all my Estate Real and Personal by Her freely to be possessed & Enjoyed. And Do by these presents Utterly disallow revoke & Disannull all & every other former Testaments, Wills, Legacies & bequests & Executors or Executrix's by me in any way's before Named willed & bequeathed, Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In Wittness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal y^e Day & Year within mentioned.

Signed sealed Published    Pronounced & Declared    by ye sd John East as    his last will & Testament in    Presence of us ye subscribers    Joshua Moody    Edmund Mountfort    Samll Moody Iur		John East (seal)
Probated 27 May 1736. Inventory returned 1 March 1736-7, at £452: 2: 0, by Isaac Ilsley, James Gooding and Moses Pearson, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 377, citing Probate Office, 5, 55.