Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Nine (1743-58)

   In the Name of God Amen. I William Sellers of York in the County of York Wheelwright being of a Sound Mind & Memory, Thanks be to God, thô much infirmed & dicriped, and not knowing how Soon it may please God to call me out of this World, Do make this my last Will & Testament, and dispose of Such Worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life in Manner & Form following.

   Imp^r I give & bequeath unto my loving Wife Ruth Sellers all my personal Estate both within Doors and without to be disposed of by her in Such Way & Manner as to her Shall Seem meet, And the Use & Improvement of all my real Estate during her natural Life, provided She don't marry again, but if She does, then She Shall have no other in my Estate than what the Law allows a Widow in Case of Intestates.

   Item. My Will is that all my just Debts funeral Charges & Legacies hereafter named Shall be paid by my Son Joseph hereafter named out of what I intend for him.

   Item. I give & bequeath unto the four Children of my Son Iohn Dec^d One pound Six Shillings & Eight pence lawful Money each, to be paid them by my Son Joseph as Soon as his Mothers Term in y^e afores^d Estate be ended & not before.

   Item. I give to my Daughters Mary Sarah Ruth Joanna Elizabeth & Patience each of them, one pair of Gloves at the time of my Decease to be paid them by their S^d Brother Ioseph.

   Item. I give & bequeath to my aforesaid Son Joseph his Heirs & Assigns all my real Estate after my Said Wife's Term in the Same be ended as afores^d with y^e Privilidges and Appurtanances Reversions & Remainders of the Same he my Said Son Joseph paying my just Debts funeral Charges & Legacys aforesaid. And finally I appoint my Said Wife Ruth Sellers Sole Execut^x of this my last Will & Testament, And do hereby utterly disannul all & every other Testament Wills Legacies & Bequests by me in any Ways before named Willed & bequeathed ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal, the 29^th Day of Septemr in y^e 30^th Year of His Maj^ts Reign, Annoque Domini 1756.

Signed Sealed published    pronounced & declared    by the Sd Wm Sellars as    his last Will & Testamt    in presence of us Benja    Webber Danel Moulton    Diamond Sergent.		William Sellers (Seal)       his mark
Probated 13 February 1758. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 812, citing Probate Office, 9, 255.