Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Six (1736-46)

   In the Name of God Amen, the 22^d Day of March 1741. I Mathew Simonton of Falmouth in the County of York Marriner being of perfect mind and memory thanks bee to God, therefore calling unto mind the mortality of my Body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to Die 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 that gave it, and my Body I Recomend to the Earth to be buried in a Deacent Christian burial at the Discretion of my Executors nothing doubting but at y^e General Resurrection I shall receive the same again by the mighty Power of God; 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 y^e following manner & form.

   Item/ I Give & bequeath unto my well beloved Father Andrew Simonton & also to my beloved Mother Ann Simonton whom I Likewise Constitute make & Ordain my Sole Executor & Executrix of this my last Will & testament all & singular my Lands & tenements money & Sloop & all & singular every part & parcel of my Estate be it in what Species it will by him & her fully to be possessed & enjoyed they or any of them yeilding & paying unto my Nephew Mathew White two hundred pounds; and unto my loveing Wife the third part of all visible & invisable Estate in my possession at the signing of these presents. but if in Case my Wife should bring forth either Son or Daughter then and not otherwise he or She is hereby to be Heir of the whole after he or She comes to the Years of Heirship and I hereby utterly Revoak & Disannull 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 hereunto set my hand & Seal y^e Day & Year above written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & Declared by ye sd Mathew Sim-    onton as his last Will & testament    in ye presence of us.    John Oryan    Samuel Been    Samuel Dolever		Mathew Simonton
Acknowledged 21 May 1742. Probated 25 Aug. 1742; Inventory returned at £3095: 3: 2, by Dominicus Jordan, Samll Moody and David Stickney, appraisers, 11 June 1742. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 453, citing Probate Office, 6, 17.