Maine Wills

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

   In The Name of God amen The Eighteenth Day of Ianuary anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred Twenty & Two/ Three I Withers Berry of Kittery in y^e County of Yorke in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England yeoman Being very sick & weak in Body but of Perfect mind and Memory Thanks be Given to God Therefore calling into mind the Mortality of my Body Do make & ordain this my Last Will & Testament that is to say Principally & first of all I Give and Recommend my Soul into y^e hands of God that Gave it and my Body I Recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at y^e Discreation of my Executrix hereafter Mentioned 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 and form.

   Imprimis I will that all my Just Debts be Paid by my Executrix

   Item I Give to my much Respected friend the Reverand M^r John Newmarch five Pounds in Money to be paid to him by my Executrix.

   Item I Give and Bequeath unto my Honoured Mother Elizabeth Curtise all and Singular my Lands Messuages & Tennements wheresoever & whatsoever freely by her to be Possessed & Enjoyed and to her Dispose forever and also all my Personal & Moveables Estate whatsoever forever.

   Item I constitute make & ordain my abovesaid Honoured Mother Elizabeth Curtis my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament and I Do hereby utterly Disallow revoke & Disannul all other & Every other former Testaments Wills & Legaces & Executors by me in any ways before Named willed & bequeathed Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my Last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal the day and year aboue written.

Signed Sealed Published    Pronounced & Declared by    the Said Withers Berry as    his Last Will & Testament    In ye Presence of us the    subscribers.    Sarah X Keen       her mark    Mary X Shepard       her mark    Mary X Rogers       her mark    Patience X Spinney             her mark		The words & Executors were    Interlined before signing          Withers Berry (Seal)
Brought in for probate by the mother Elizabeth Curtis 4 Jan. 1732, to whom Letters issued. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 334, citing Probate Office, 4, 136.