Maine Wills

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

   Memorandum, That on the tenth Day of December 1745, Nathan Pilsbery late resident in York in the County of York Blacksmith at the House of M^r Elias Weare in said York where the Said Nathan had lived more than One year last past being very Sick (of which Sickness he died on y^e 13th Day of December Instant) but at that time viz^t on y^e afores^d tenth Day of December Instant he the Said Nathan Pilsbery was to our best Discerning of Sound Mind and of good Understanding and called us the Subscribers Edmund Coffin Elias Weare Andrew Wastcoat Ionathan Hutchins jun^r & Esther Curtis all being then and there present and of full age and desired us to take Notice and to bear Witness, That his Will was to give to his Sister Abigail Field all his Estate and he did then by express Words Say that he did give to his Said Sister Abigail all his Estate in Money Goods Chattels Lands Tools and all and whatsoever did in any Manner belong to him and that was in any manner due to him in any place and places nothing excepted, and that after his Decease the Same and every part thereof and all the Interest and Estate he had in this World Should be to his Said Sister Abigail Field all which he the Said Nathan Pilsbery divers times repeated and declared to be his Will.

   In Witness whereof the aboue written Will is committed to writing this 17^th Day of December Anno Domⁱ 1745

	Edmd Coffin Elias Weare	Andrew Westcoat Ionathan Hutchins
Allowed in Court 19 Febury 1745. Letters testamentary issued to Joseph Field and Abigail his wife, same date. Inventory returned 7 April 1746, at £28: 13: 8½, by Thomas Knight, Noah Emery and Herkles Fernald, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 510, citing Probate Office, 6, 179.