Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Five (1725-42)

   In the Name of God Amen. I Elizabeth Banks Widow, of York in y^e County of York in y^e Province of y^e Massachusets Bay in N. E : being sick of Body but of sound mind & memory blessed be God Do make this my last Will & Testament.

   First & above all I Commit my Soul into the Hands of my Redeemer whom I have Chosen & desire to love above all. & my Body I Commit it to y^e Dust out of which it was taken, Decently to be buried : And as for y^e small worldly Substance which I have by y^e mercy of God I give it all to my beloved & Dutifull son Moses Banks who has taken faithfull care of me & been tender over me & his wife, who has been as a Natural Child to me. I need not express any particulars, they are so small : but all I can now lay Claim to of what kind soever in worldly Estate, I give unto my s^d Son & Daughter in Law; He paying y^e Doc^tr and Discharging all my Just Debts & Funeral Charges & paying unto my younger Son Aaron five shillings to my Daughter in Law, my late Husbands Daughter five shillings to my Daughter Mary five shillings To my Daughter Hannah five shillings. And I Do hereby Constitute & appoint my trusty & well beloved Son Moses Banks to be the sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament Revokeing all others, if Others there be In Wittness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal this   Day of   1737. Annoque Rji Reg^s Grⁱ undecimo.

Signed sealed Published Pro-    nounced & Declared by sd    Widow as her last Will &    Testament in presence of    Wittness Beriah Young                  John Leavit                  Stephen X Preble                     his mark		Elizth + Banks (seal)     her mark
Probated 18 July 1738. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 404, citing Probate Office, 5, 140.