Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Four (1677-1734)

   In the Name of God Amen I Ebenezer Allen of Falmouth In the County of York In New England being in good health of Body and of Sound & Perfect mind and memory praise be therfor given to Almighty God : do make and Ordain this my present Last will and Testament in manner and form following that is to Say first and Principally I commend my Soul into the hands of Almighty God hopeing through the Merrets Death and Passion of my Savour Iesus Christ to have full and free Pardon & forgiveness of all my Sins and to Inheret Everlasting Life and my Body I commit to the Earth to be Decently Buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter Named and as Touching the Disposition of all Such Temporall Estate as it hath Pleased Allmighty God to bestow upon me I give and Dispose thereof as followeth : First I will that my Debts and funerall Charges Shall be paid and Discharged : Item I give unto my well beloved Wife all my Estate both real & personall within Doors and without both here and Else where with all and Every thing or things that doth belong unto me or might or Ought to belong unto me unto her and to her Disposing. Item It is my will and Desire that my S^d wife or her heirs Shall Defend and Recover all my Lotts and Rights of Lands scituate in the Township of S^d Falmouth which may be Recovered in Law or wherever it may be found and leve Mary Allen my true & well beloved wife my full and sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament and I do hereby Revoake Dissanull and make Void all Former Wills and Testaments by me heretofore made in Witness whereof I the S^d Ebenezer Allen to this my last will and Testament do Set my hand & Seal this first Day of April in the third year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King George the 2^d and In the Year of our Lord God 1730

Signed Sealed Pronounced &    Declared by the Sd Ebenezer    Allen of his last will and Tes-    tament In the Pressence of us    the Subscribers.    John Armstrong    Thomas Woodberry    Joshua Woodberry		Ebenr Allen (Seal)
Presented by Mrs Mary Allen alias Mary Noble, 5 Jan. 1730. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 316, citing Probate Office, 4, 92.