Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God, Amen The first Day of August Anno Domini one Thousand seven Hundred & forty, I Thomas Jenkins of Kittery in y^e County of York in the Province of y^e Massachusets Bay in New-England Black-Smith being very Infirm & weak in Body but of perfect mind & memory, Thanks be given unto God : Therefore calling unto mind the 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 & my Body I Recomend to the Earth to be Buried in 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 y^e same in the following manner & form.

   Imprimis, I Will that all my Just Debts & Funeral Charges be paid so soon as may be conveniently after my Decease.

   Item. I give & bequeath to Anne my dearly beloved Wife during the time of her Widow hood the Use Improvement & Incom of all my Estate both Real & Personal of what kind & sort soever and in whatsoever place for her Comfortable Support & maintainance & for y^e maintainance of my younger Children untill they shall be of a Suitable Age to be put to apprentiships : And if the Income of my Estate be not sufficient for her and their Support & maintainance; I give her by these presents full Power & Liberty to sell & Dispose of so much thereof as shall be sufficient for her own & their Comfortable Maintainance; and Case there shall be any of my Estate remaining at the Ending of her Widowhood I give her by these presents full Power & Authority to give & Dispose of the same as She in her Prudence & Wisdom shall see meet to & among my Children namely Thomas Jenkins, Lemuel Jenkins, Joseph Jenkins Benjamin Jenkins, Mary Mace Keturah Webber Anne Polly, Philadelphia Jenkins, Lois Jenkins or to such as shall Legally represent them if any of them should depart this Life before that time.

   Finally, I Constitute, Make & Ordain my Dearly beloved Wife Anne Jenkins my Sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament : And I Do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & Disannul all & every other former Testaments Wills Legacies & Bequests & Executors by me in any ways before Named Willed & bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & seal the Day & Year above written.

Signed Sealed published    Pronounced & Declared    by ye said Thomas Jenkins    as his last Will & Testament    in ye presence of us ye Subscribers    Jos : Curtis    Ricdd Cutt Jur    Thomas Cutt    John Newmarch		Thomas Jenkins (Seal)
Probated 21 Oct. 1740. Inventory returned 20 Oct. 1740, at $900: 8: 8, by Richard Cutt Jur, Thomas Cutt and John Godsoe, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 426, citing Probate Office, 5, 207.