Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Two (1698-1718)

   In the Name of God Amen The twenty Seventh day of September in the year of our Lord one ThouSand Seven Hundred & fourteen I Iohn IngerSoll of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the MassachuSets Bay in New England Carpenter being aged & weak in body but of perfect mind & memory thanks be given unto God therefore Called unto mind the mortality of my body do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament:

   That is to Say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hand of God; & for my body I Commend it to the Earth to be buried in a Christian like & decent manner at the discretion of my Executrix And as touching Such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this life I give devise and dispose of the Same in the following manner & form.

   Imprimis I give to my well beloved Son Elisha Ingersoll his Heirs & assigns forever a Confermation of the Land which I Have heretofore given him in Kittery as per deed of Gift may appear I also give to him his heirs & assigns forever; the Moiety or one halfe part of my Farm or Land whereon I formerly dwelt at Falmouth or Casco Bay that is to Say, that halfe adjacent to Richard Pouslands land and also one halfe part of my right & title of the river or Stream whereon I formerly had a Mill in the above Said TownShip of Falmouth Together with the Moiety or one halfe part of my right & Title to that Tract or percell of Land which was given me by the Town of Falmouth belonging to the above Said Mill Stream.

   Item I give to my Son Nathaniel Engersoll after mine & my wives decease the Messuage or Tenement whereon I dwell Scituate & being in Kittery aforesaid Containing about thirty six acres together with all the houseing fences and orchards thereon and also my highway to the water Side and landing place to him the Said Nath^ll his Heirs & assigns forever.

   Item I give to my well beloved Children Iohn EngerSoll Ephraim EngerSoll Deborah Larroby Mary Low Rechel Chapman Abigail Blacy & my Grandaughter Sarah Brown their Heirs & assigns forever after mine & my wives decease all the reSidue of my Estate, Consisting in land and moveables, whatsoever to be equally divided among them upon a just Prisal. only my Son Iohn EngerSoll, to have five pounds. more then any one of the rest.

   Item I give & bequeath to my dearly beloved wife the vse & Improvment of all my Estate Real & Personal for her comfertable Subsistance & maintainance during her naturall life Excepting what I have herein given to my Son Elisha Engersoll I do likewise ConStitute make & ordain my above Said wife Deborah my onely and Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament; hereby utterly disallowing revoaking & disanulling all & every other former Testaments Will & Lagacies, Bequests & Executors by me in any Ways before this time Named Willed & Bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Sett my hand & Seal the day & year above written.

Signed Sealed Published Pro-    nounced and Declared    by the Said Iohn IngerSoll as    his Last Will & Testament    in the preSents of us the    Subscribers    Stepn Eastwick    Roger Dearing Iunr    Iohn Newmarch		Iohn J IngerSoll (the Seal)       his marke
Probated and recorded 4 April 1716. Inventory returned 28 April 1716, at £111:12:2, by Joseph Weeks, Ebenezar More, and George Frink, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 186, citing Probate Office, 2, 114.