Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Three (1709-28)

In the Name of God Amen

   The Twenty ninth Day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand Seven Hundred and Nineteen twenty I Wiiliam Rogers of Kittery in the County of York in New England yeoman being Weak in body but of Perfect mind and memory Thanks be given unto God Therefore Calling unto mind the Mortallity of my body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Dye Do make & ordain this my last will & Testament that is to say Principally and first of all I Give and recommend my Soul into the hand of God that Gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent & Christian Maner at the Discreation of my Executrix Nothing Doubting but at the Generall resurrection I Shall receive the same again by the almighty Power of God and as Touching Such Worldly Estate where with it hath Pleased God to Bless me in this life I Give Demise and Dispose of the Same in the following manner and form.

   Imprimiss I Give and Bequeath to Mary Rogers my Dearly Beloved Wife whom I Likewise Constitute make & ordain my Sole Executrix of this my last Will and Testament all my Estate real and Personall of Every kind Quallity and specia what soever and in all parts and Places Where soever the same shall be or may be unto my aforsaid Dearly Beloved wife and to her heirs & assigns forever and I Do hereby Constitute & appoint Capt. William Pepperrell Jun^r & m^r Francis Pettigrove both of y^e afors^d Town of Kittery to be my Trustees & OverSeers of this my Said Will and I Do hereby utterly Disallow revoke & Disannull all and Every other former Testaments Wills Legacies and Bequests Executrix & Executors by me in any wayes before Named willed and Bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will & Testament In Wittness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal the day and year above written

Signed Sealed Published    Pronounced & Declared by    the said William Rogers as    his Last will and Testament in    the Presence of us the Subscribers    Margery Whittemore    Jane Pepperrell    Mary Dearing		William W Rogers (Seal)       mark
Probated 10 April 1725. Inventory returned 21 April 1725, at £540: 7: 0, by Joseph Weeks, James Breeden and Joseph Curtis, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 267, citing Probate Office, 3, 159.