Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen I Patience Stone of the Town of Barwick in the County of Yorke in his Maj^ts Province of the MasachuSetts Bay in New England widow (and Relict of Daniel Stone late of Barwick aforeSaid) being weak & ailing but of Sound & disposing Sence & memory, blessed be God for it Do make this my Last will & Testament.

   First & principally I resign my Soul to God that gave it hopeing through the merits of my blessed Lord & Saviour Iusus Christ to obtain Pardon of all my Sins, and my body I Commit to the Earth to be decently buried at the discretion of the Executor to this my Last Will & Testament & as for this worldly Goods the Lord hath Lent me; after my Lawfull Debts & funerall Charge is paid I give & bestow as Followeth.

   1. I give & bequeath unto my Son Daniel Stone a pair of Stilliards and one flax Comb.

   2. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Rachael Grant one pewter platter.

   3. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Patience Waymouth one pewter platter.

   4. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Sarah Libby one pewter platter

   5. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Abigail Goodin one pewter platter & two plates.

   6. I give & bequeath unto my daughter Elisabeth Stone one pewter platter & one Bason & my great Iron pott & two pewter plates.

   7. I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Leah Stone one pewter platter & one Chafindish & two pewter plates & my middlein Iron pott.

   8. I do give & bequeath unto my two aforeSaid daughters Elisabeth & Leah my two fetherbeds & all the furniture belonging to them both, & all my bed Cloths of every Sort both wooling & Linnin & all my wearing Cloths both wooling & Linnin or any other Sort & also my warming pan & Table Linnin to be equally divided betwene them both.

   9. I give & bequeath unto my Eight daughters to the Six herein already named and to my daughter Mary Martin & Margret Gould all the rest of my Estate Good or Chattels Rights & Credits & vtenSels whatsoever without dores or within abroad or at home to be Equally divided amongst them all

   10. I do ordain & appoint my Brother Daniel Goodin to be the Executor to this my Last Will & Testament Renouncing & Revoaking all or any Will or Wills by me heretofore made or Suffered to be made; In Witness hereof I the afore Said Patience Stone have hereunto Set my hand & Seal this Eighteenth day of February anno Dom : one ThouSand Seven Hundred & fifteen Sixteen 1715/16

Signed Sealed & Published/    in the preSents of us    Mary X Goodin{    his marke [sic]    Samuel Goodin{         witnesses    Iohn Hubord{		Patience Stone (Seal)       her marke
Probated 4 April 1716. Inventory returned 10 April 1716 at £70:08:9, by James Waren, Daniel Emery, and John Hupper, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 182, citing Probate Office, 2, 109.