Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Ten (1749-60)

In the Name of God Amen.

   The Seventeenth Day of August Anno Domini 1759. I Henry Woolfe of North Yarmouth in the County of York, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Yeoman, being in perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be given to God therefor, calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body, and 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, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in a decent manner, nothing doubting but at the General Resurrection, I shall receive the Same again by the Mighty Power of God; And as touching such Worldly Estate wherewith it pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of y^e Same in the following Manner & Form.

   Imprimis I give & bequeath to my beloved Wife Rachael all my person^l Estate & Household Furniture; and also the Improvem^t of my real Estate during her natural Life.

   Item. I give & bequeath One hundred & Nine Acres of Land lying at y^e head of Herrisicket Neck so called which I bought of the Proprietors of the Common Lands in said Town as by Deed may fully appear unto y^e Heir or Heirs of my Daughter Elizabeth Woolfe whom I left in England if any there be; and in Case none should appear, I give the Same to my Daughter Mary Woolfe.

   Item. I give to my Daughter Mary all my Salt Marsh lying up Herrisicket River.

   Item. I give & bequeath unto my two daughters Mary & Rachael in equal Halves according to Quantity & Quality about Two hundred and Sixty three acres of Land lying on Harrisicket Neck from the Point upward on said Neck, It being the Lands which was granted to the legal Heirs & Representatives of Thomas Shepherd late of North Yarmouth Dec^d as I am the legal Heir & Representative of the Said Thomas, and also all my Rights in all the Pews in the Meeting House in said North Yarmouth.

   Item. I give unto my two Grand Children Henry & Elizabeth Moxey in equal Halves all my Rights of Land lying in that part of y^e Township of North Yarm^o commonly called & known by the Name of the Gore in said Township. I do also ordain and appoint my Daughter Mary Woolfe Sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament.

Signed Sealed published & declared    by ye sd Henry Woolfe to be his    last Will & Testament In pres-    ence of us,    Patrick Googin Gilbert Winslow Barnabas Seabury.		Henry Woolfe (Seal)
Probated 1 Oct. 1759. Inventory returned 20 Sept. 1759, at £590: 18: 8, by Gilbert Winslow, Abraham Pettingal and Barnabas Seabury, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 872, citing Probate Office, 10, 120.