Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. The twenty fifth Day of November one Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty five, I Samuel Allen of Berwick in the County of York Husbandman being very Sick and weak in Body, but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God, Therefore calling unto Mind the Mortality of my Body and knowing, that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament, That is to Say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Burial at the Discretion of my Executors hereafter named nothing doubting but at the 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 and dispose of the Same in the following Manner and Form.

   Impr^s I give and bequeath unto my beloved Wife Iane Allen all my Estate both Real and personal to have the Improvement of as long time as She Shall bear up my Name by remaining a Widow, and after her Marriage or Death I dispose of the Same as followeth.

   Item, I give and bequeath unto my loving Daughter Bridgit Hearl and her Son William Hearl and to their Heirs and Assigns forever Two Acres and an half of Marsh in the old Swamps so called adjoining to Grindal Knights Land & Ioseph Hearts Land also Two Acres of Land at the lower End of the Field adjoining to Roger Plaisteds Land on one Side bounded by the old Hedge Fence and from thence to run towards Joseph Allins Field where he plants until Two Acres is accomplished and also I give unto my Said Daughter Bridget and her Heirs Seven Appletrees and the Ground they Stand upon, w^ch Ground is bounded beginning where the old House Stood upon the Hill joining unto Roger Plaisteds Land, and from thence down the Hill by the High Way towards my dwelling House until it takes in Seven of the Appletrees next to y^e High Way and no further And I also allow a convenient Way between my Land and M^r Plaisteds for my Daughter Bridget to pass to the Said Two of Land last mentioned.

   Item I give and bequeath unto my loving Daughter Marey Allin to her Heirs and Assigns forever all the remaining part of my Estate viz^t my Dwelling House Barn Lands and all my Estate both real and personal not before mentioned. Lastly I make ordain my loving Wife Jane Allin and my Daughter Mary Allin my Sole Executors of this my last Will and Testament And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacys and Bequests and Executors by me in any Ways 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 and Seal the Day and Year above Written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced and declared by the    Said Samuel Allin as his last Will and Testamt in the    Presence of us Witnesses,
Moses Butler    Iames Frost    Ioseph Stone		Samuel X Allen (a Seal)       his mark
Probated 7 April 1746. Inventory returned 20 June 1747, at £230: 3: 0, old tenor by Roger Plaisted, James Frost and Moses Butler, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 517, citing Probate Office, 6, 193.