Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Seven (1721-49)

   In the Name of God Amen. The twelfth Day of October Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred twenty & one I Charles Trafton of York in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Yeoman being of perfect Mind & Memory, Thanks be given unto God; and 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 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 Executrix hereafter named, 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 y^e following Manner & Form.

   Imp^r I give to my Brother Hezekiah Trafton Ten Shillings in Current Money of New England.

   Item. I give to my Sisters Elizabeth Johnson Iane Beal Dorothy Main Penelope Bracy five Shillings in Currant Money to each of them.

   Item, I give & bequeath to Sarah my dearly beloved Wife, whom I likewise constitute make & ordain my Sole Executrix of this my last Will & Testament and to her Heirs & Assigns forever all & Singular my Lands Messuages & Tenements together with all my Housing Household Goods Stock of Creatures Debts and moveable Effects whatsoever & wheresoever by her, her Heirs and Assigns, freely to be possessed & enjoyed forever.

   Item. I desire & appoint the Hon^ble Ioseph Hammond Esq^r and the Rev^d M^r Iohn Newmarch to be Overseers of this my last Will & Testam^t and to assist my Execut^x in her Executrixship.

   Finally I do hereby utterly disallow & disannul all & every other former Testaments Wills Legacys & Bequests & Execut^rs or Executrix's by me in any Ways before named willed and bequeathed, ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day and Year above written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & declared by the Said Charles    Trafton as his last Will & Testa-    ment in the presence of us    the Subscribers,    Richd Rice Iohn Sheppard    Paul Wentworth John Newmarch jr.		Charles Trafton (a Seal)
Probated 17 May 1748. Inventory returned 13 March 1749, at £928, old tenor, by Ralph Farnam, Christopher Pottle and Alexr Mckintire, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 571, citing Probate Office, 7, 162.