Maine Wills

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

In the Name of God Amen.

   The thirty first Day of March 1759. I Moses Goodwin j^r of Berwick in y^e County of York Yeoman, being Sick and weak of Body, but of perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be given unto God, therefore calling unto Mind y^e Mortality of my Body, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die do make & ordain this my last Will and Testament, that is to say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recommend to y^e Earth to be buried in decent christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executor, nothing doubting but at the general Resurrection Day I shall receive the Same again by the 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 the following Manner & Form.

   Imp^r. I give my beloved Sister Martha Page twenty six Shillings & Eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Execut^r.

   Item. I give my Sister Patience her Children twenty six Shillings & eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Execut^r.

   Item. I give my Sister Mary Warren twenty six Shillings & eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executor.

   I give to my Sister Abigail Bennet twenty six Shillings and eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executor.

   I give to my Sister Phebe Emery twenty six shillings & eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executor

   I give to my Sister Elizabeth Gray twenty six Shillings & eight pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executor.

   Item. I give to my Sister Margaret Grant two pounds thirteen Shillings & four pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executor.

   Item. I give to my well beloved Brother Aaron Goodwin whom I likewise constitute make & ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament all & Singular my Lands & Tenements Goods & Chattels real & personal Estate, and all my Right & Title to any Lands that Shall come unto me as well as what I am in Possession to be by him freely possessed & enjoyed. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannul all & every other former Testaments Wills Legacys & Bequests & Executors by me in any Way before named willed & bequeathed ratifying and confirming this & no other to be my last Will and Testament.

   In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day & Year afore written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & declared by ye sd Moses Goodwin    as his last Will & Testament in ye    presence of us ye Subscribers.    Iohn Cooper    his    X Benjamin Hodsdon mark    Foxwell C. Cutt.		Moses Goodwin (Seal)
Probated 19 June 1759. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 864, citing Probate Office, 10, 93.