Maine Wills

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

   These preSents Signifies to all perSons to whom it may doth or Shall Concern that we the SubScribers all of Kittery in the County of Yorke & within his Maj^ts Province of the MasachuSets Bay in New England Testifie declare & Aver by these preSent that being att the the dwelling house of Moses Bowdy of S^d Kittery Mason deceased lately on wendsday the fifteenth of December Instant, he the S^d Moses Bowdy then being ill & daingereous Sick thô in perfect mind & Sound Iudgement Expecting his certain & Speedy departure out of this life; did then in the preSents of us Nominate & appoint ConStitute & unalterably Establish Reynold Ienkins & William Fry both of S^d Kittery in the County & prouince afore Said to be his trve & Sole Executors & take all his Estate into their Charge, care, & management both real and perSonable; & bury him decently also to take care of his Children & Provide for them & bring them up & Improve the Said Estate to y^e best & most advantageous manner for their vse & advantage To the truth of which the above written we SubScribe our Names this 18 day of Decemb^r Anno Domini 1714

		Samuel Iohnson Iohn Tydy Eliner E Bishop her mark
Probated 18 Dec. 1714. Inventory returned 21 Dec. 1714 at £47: 00: 1, by John Leighton, Joshua Downing, and Nicolas Shapleigh, appraisers Added to the Inventory the first day of Aug. 1721. £7:15:4. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 181, citing Probate Office, 2, 98.