Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen April y^e 18^th 1726. I Thomas Adams of York in y^e County of York in y^e Province of y^e Massachusets Bay in New England Yeoman being aged & infirm in Body but of sound mind & memory blessed be God for it calling to mind the certainty of my Departure out of this World & the uncertainty of y^e time when it shall please God to call me hence Do make & Ordain this my last Will & Testament. In the first place & principally I Give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of my blessed Redeemer hopeing & trusting in his merits alone for the Salvation thereof & my Body I recommend to y^e Earth to buried in decent Christian manner at y^e Charge of my Executor expecting to receive it again from the Dust at y^e General Resurrection thrô the mighty power of God & as touching such worldly Estate as it has pleased God to bestow upon me in this Life I demise & Dispose of y^e same in manner & form following.

   Imprimis I give & bequeath unto my welbeloved & faithfull Wife besides w^t is already reserved to her & my selfe during our natural Life in my Deed of Gift to my son Thomas three Pewter Platters to be Distributed among her three Daughters Hannah Esther & Elizabeth at her Decease.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my Eldest son Philip Adams besides what he has already received by Deed of gift five shillings.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my son Sam^ll Adams besides what he has already received by Deed of Gift five shillings.

   Item I give & bequeath u[n]to my son Hezekiah Adams besides what he has already received by Deed of Gift five shillings.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my eldest Daughter Hannah Baker twenty shillings besides what she has already Received.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Esther Booker twenty shillings besides what she has already received.

   Item I give unto my youngest Daughter Elisabeth Sedgely besides what she has already received ten shillings.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my youngest son Thomas Adams whom I Do hereby constitute make & Ordain y^e sole Executor of this my Will & Testament all y^e Remainder of my personal Estate Goods & Debts not already herein bequeathed, & also y^e Housing & Buildings y^t now are or at my Decease shall be standing on y^e Land where I now dwell He paying the Legacies herein mentioned & y^e Charges of mine & my Wifes Decent Interment & all my Just Debts and maintaining his Mother comfortably during her natural Life if w^t is reserved in my Deed of Gift to him of my Home Place should not be sufficient.

   Lastly Unto my son Nathan Adams who was omitted in the proper place by y^e Scribe I give & bequeath besides what he has already received by Deed of Gift five shillings.

   And I Do here by utterly disallow revoke & disannul all & every other former Wills Testaments Legacies & Bequests & Executors by me named willed & bequeathed in any ways heretofore ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Wittness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal y^e Day & Year before written The Words [Goods & Debts] between line 2^d & 3^d & the words [the Legacies herein mentioned &] were interlined before signing between Line 4^th & 5^th.

Signed Sealed published pro-    nounced & Declared by the    sd Thomas Adams as his last    Will & Testament in the presence    of Us ye subscribers.    Samuel Moodey    Anthony Baker    Jos : Moodey		Thos A Adams (seal)    his mark
Probated 24 June 1737. Inventory returned 13 July 1737, at £29: 3: 0, by Jonathan Beane, Job Banks and Henry Simpson, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 387, citing Probate Office, 5, 85.