Lincoln County Probate Records

In the Name of God Amen. I Samuel Hutchinson of Woolwich of the County Linclon & Common-wealth of Massachusetts yeoman : Being very weak in Body, but of perfect Mind & Memory blessed be God : Calling to mind the mortality of my Body & Knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die : Do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament.

That is to Say principally & first of all, I give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of God who gave it, & for my Body, I commit it to the Earth to be buried in a decent Christian like manner at the discretion of my Executors, hoping in the mercy of God thro' Christ to receive the Same made like unto Christs glorious Body at the last Day. And as to my Wurldly Estate which God hath blessed me with in this life, I give, Demise, & Dispose of the Same in manner following.

imprimis. It is my will & I order, that first of all, my just debts & funeral charges be paid & Satisfied.

item. I Give & Bequeath unto Sarah my dearly beloved Wife the free use & improvement of the whole of my Estate both real & personal during her natural life.

item. I give to my beloved Daughter Elizabeth Turner (besides what I have already given her) & to her Heirs the Sum of one pound lawful money to be paied out of my Estate at the Death of my said Wife,

item. I give to my beloved Daughter Susannah Six pounds thirteen Shillings & four pence lawful money to be paied out of my Estate immediately after the Decease of my said Wife.

item. I give to my beloved Daughter Hannah Meloey Six pounds thirteen Shillings & four pence lawful money to be paied out of my Estate immediately after the Decease of my Saied Wife,

item. I give unto my Six Daughters (after named) Ruth Hopkins, Sarah Bridgdon, Mary Avery, Susannah, Hannah Meloey, Martha Fullington to them, their Heirs & asigns forever, all the remainder of my Estate both Real & Personal of whatever nature or kind : or where-ever found, to be Equally divided betwen them & their Heirs upon my Said Wifs Decease. Excepting to my Daughter Mary Avery to her & her Heirs I give in this Division but one half as much as to one of the Six of my Daughters above named, because She the Said Mary hath already received of me, so much more than the other five of my Daughters personaly have ;

I Do also Constitute Timothy Bridgdon of Charlstown in the County of Middlesex & James Fullington of Woolwich in the County of Linclon, both in the Commonwealth of the Massachusetts my Executors of this my last Will & Testament & hereby revoke all former Wills or Testaments by me made, & Confirm this & no other to be my last Will & Testament, in confirmation whereof I do hereunto Set my hand & Seal this first day of March, A : D : one thousand Seven hundred & Eighty one : & in the fifth year of the American independence.

Samuel Hutchinson (seal)

Signed, Sealed, Published, Pronounced and
Declared by the Said Samuel Hutchinson
to be his last Will & testament in presence of

Jos : Winship
John Gray
Benjamin Shaw

N. B. the Word God was interlined before Seigning & Sealing

Probated first Wed. of July, 1781. [II, 174.] Inventory by Samuel Ford, Robert Stinson and David Gilmore, all of Woolwich, 2 Dec, 1781, £40 : 4: 10. [III, 181.] Inventory by John Hay, Benjamin Goodwin and Isaac Mallet, all of Charlestown, 12 Ap., 1783. [III, 182.] Account filed 30 May, 1794. [VI, 77 to 79.]

Source: The Probate Records of Lincoln County, Maine, 1760 to 1800 (Portland, Me.: Printed for the Maine Genealogical Society, 1895), p. 113, citing Lincoln County, Maine, Probate Records.