Maine Wills

 From York Registry of Deeds (1640-91)

Wells this 8^th day of Janvary : 1654 :

   In the name of god Amen/

   I Henery Boad of wells In the County of yorke In New England, do make this my Last will & Testament, being in good health & pfect Memory, In Manner & forme as followeth/

   1 ffirst I do bequeath my soule unto god from whence it Came, my body to be decently burjed by my executrix, not doubting but soule & body shall rise agajne at the Last day, to Eternall glory/ as for my lands & worldly goods I do giue & bequeath them all to Ann Boad my loueing wife, whom I make my soole exequetrix, & to be at her disposing to whom shee please/ & alsoe I do make my louing Cosson Mr Joⁿ winthorpe Esq^r, & alsoe my Cosson Thymothy Daulton Minister of Hampton : my Two ouerseers to this my Last will, & testament, & for there paynes, I do giue them Twenty shillings a peece to be payd by my executrix/ In witnesse w^rof I haue subscribed to my last will & Testam^t, In the presence of Joseph Bowles & Jon Sanders/

Witnesse us/    Joseph Bowles/    Jon Sanders his    Marke X		Henery Boad/
Sworn to by both attesting witnesses 16 July 57; recorded same day; Inventory returned at £204 same day by Lt Jon Sanders, Mr Jon Gouch and William Hammonds, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 43, citing Registry of Deeds, 1, 61.