Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. the twenty sixth Day of July Anno Domini one thousand seven Hundred thirty & four I John Eveleth of Kittery In the County of York in y^e Province of y^e Massachusets Bay in New England Clerk being sick & weak in Body but of sound Disposeing mind & memory Thanks be given to God there fore Calling to mind y^e Mortality of my Body Do make & 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, And my Body I Recommend to y^e Earth to be buried in A Christian like & Decent Manner at the Discretion of my Executors. And as touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I Give Demise & Dispose of the same in the following manner & form.

   Imprimis I give & bequeath to my welbeloved Daughter Sarah Cordis sixty Pounds in Money.

   Item I give & bequeath to my welbeloved Children Iohn Eveleth Frances Eveleth Martha Thornton, & Hannah Ayers to Each of them five shillings in money.

   Item I give & bequeath to my well beloved Wife Mary Eveleth all y^e Remainder of my Estate both Real & Personal wheresoever and whatsoever which I have not heretofore nor by these psents by me Disposed of to be at her Disposal as she shall think fit to And amongst my Children.

   Lastly I Constitute make & ordain my trusty Friends Richard Gowell & Thomas Dennet my only & sole Executors of this my Last Will & Testament & I Do hereby Utterly revok Disallow all & every other former Testament Wills Legacies bequests & Executors by me in any wayes before Named willed or bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal y^e Day & year first above written

Signed sealed Published pronounced    & Declared by ye said John Eve-    leth as his last Will & Testament    in ye presence of us the subscribers.    Jos : Hammond    John Dennet    Jos : Hammond Iur		the sign of John Eveleth          John (Seal)
Probated 30 Sept. 1734. Inventory returned 11 Oct. 1734, at £198: 10: 0, by Joseph Hammond, John Dennet and Joseph Hammond jur, appraisers. Debts due the Estate from Thomas Bond, John Burbank, Jabez Dorman, Joshua Lassell, Moses Morgan, Samuel Fernald, William Gowell, Edmund Goff, Paul Wentworth, Timothy Davis, John Fernald, Mr. Dennet. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 353, citing Probate Office, 4, 197.