Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. I Roger Dearing Esq^r of Scarborough in y^e County of York and Province of y^e Massachusats Bay in New-England being of sound mind & memory for which I bless God and considering y^e Mortal State of my Body which must Dye & return to y^e Earth as it was; and being by daily infirmity & wasting sickness admonished to prepare for that important Change Do make & Ordain this my last Will & Testament, That is To say Principally & first of all I give & recomend my Soul into y^e Hands of God who gaue it hoping he will receiue it to mercy through his Sons Merits; and my Body I comit to a Decent Christian Burial at y^e Discretion of my Executrix. And as Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life, I give demise & dispose of it in y^e following manner. Imprimis, To my well beloved Wife Eliz^a Dearing whom I likewise Constitute make & ordain my Sole Executrix of this my Will and Testament, I Do give & bequeath all & singular my Lands Houses, Messuages & Tenements Moneys Goods & Chattels that I have in y^e Township of Scarborough or otherwhere, To her her Heirs and Assigns for ever. to her & their proper Use benefit & behoof for ever only Excepting what must go for y^e payment of Debts funeral Charges y^e Expences of Adminisn and what is here after bequeathed.

   Item. To the Church of Scarborough to which I have hitherto sustained a particular Relation I give & bequeath the sum of ten pounds.

   Item. To the Religious industrious poor of y^e Town of Scarborough I give & bequeath the sum of ten pounds The said poor to be chosen at y^e discretion of my Executrix.

   And I Do hereby utterly disallow revoak & disannull all & every other former Testament Wills Legacies & bequests & Executors by me in any wise before named willed and bequeathed : Ratifying and Confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament.

   In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal the third Day of Novem^br Anno Domini one Thousand seven hundred & forty one.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & Declared by ye sd Roger Dearing    Esqr as his last Will & Testament    in presence of us ye Subscribers,    Dominicus Jordan    Edward Skillin    Wm Tompson.		Roger Dearing (seal)
Probated 12 Jan. 1741. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 434, citing Probate Office, 5, 241.