Maine Wills

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

   In the name of God Amen, The Twenty first day of Ianuary Anno Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred & Sixteen Seventeen I Nicolas Tucker of Kittery in the County of Yorke in the Province of the MasachuSets Bay in New England, Cooper being Sick & weak in body but of perfect mind & memory Thanks be given unto God therefore Calling into mind the Mortality of my body do make and ordain this my last will & Testament, that is to Say principally & first of all I give & recommend my Soul into the hands of God that gave it & my body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian burial 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 demise & dispose of it the following manner & form.

   Imprimiss I do hereby Confirm & rattifye unto my beloved Son William Tucker his Heirs & assigns forever that thirty acers of Land for which I have heretofore given him A deed.

   Item I give to my well beloved Son Ioseph Tucker his heirs & assigns forever fifteen acres of Land Scituate & being in Kittery aforeSaid, bounded on the Northern Side by my Son William Tucker afore Said his land & on the Eastern end by Iohn Frinks land and on the Southern Side by the Land that was Phillip Carpenters deceased & the river Called Spruce Creek provided & on Condition that he the Said Ioseph Tucker his heirs or assigns pay or Cause to be paid three pounds in Currant money of New England yearly & every year unto his Mother Iane Tucker during her Natural life, & also provide hay or fodder Sufficient for to keep a Cow for his Sister Margaret Tucker and to keep a Cow for her every winter untill the Said Margaret Shall be married.

   Item I give to my wellbeloved daughter Margaret Tucker one Cow one fether bed & furniture belonging to it & Six pewter dishes & one Iron pot.

   Item I give to my well beloved Grandson William Wentworth five Shillings in money in full of his Mothers PortionItem I give & bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Iane Tucker whom I likwise ConStitute make & ordain my Sole Executrix of this my last will & Testament all the reSidue & remainder of my Estate both real & perSonal of every kind freely to be possest & enjoyed by her forever, and I do hereby utterly revoak & dissanul all & every other former Testaments Will Legacies & bequests & Executors by me in any wayes before Named & Willed ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my last will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand & Seal the day & year above written.

Signed Sealed Published Pronounced    and Declared by the Said Nicolas    Tucker as his last will &    Testament in the preSence    of us the Subscribers    Ebenezer More    Iohn IngerSoll    Iohn Chapman    Iohn Jordan		Nicolas Tucker (Seal) Nicols tucker    his mark
Probated 2 April, 1717. Inventory returned at £109: 18: 0 by Ebenezer More and John Ingersoll, appraisers, 8 June 1717. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 193, citing Probate Office, 2, 134.