Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. The Nineteenth Day of October One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty Six. I Henry Barter of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Husbandman being weak in Body but of perfect Mind and Memory Thanks be given unto God, Therefore calling to 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 Executor 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.

   Imp^rs I give and bequeath to Iean my dearly beloved Wife one Cow which She the Said Jane Shall See fit to choose out of my Cows two Sheep and one Load of English Hay to be delivered by my Executor to my Said Wife within Six Months after my Decease, And also one Quarter part of my Household Goods and all the Provision Wool & Flax I have at my Decease.

   Item. I give and bequeath to my Son Henry Barter Five Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Exec^r out of my Estate.

   Item. I give and bequeath to Elizabeth Iones my well beloved Daughter and her Heirs Two pounds and ten Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.

   Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Sarah Grindle and her Heirs twenty five Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.

   Item. I giue and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Eleoner Creese and her Heirs Five pounds lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.

   Item. I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Martha Iones and her Heirs Two pounds & ten Shillings lawful Money to be paid by my Executor out of my Estate.

   Item. I giue and bequeath to my Son Richard Barter one Shilling & Six pence lawful Money to be paid by my Executr out of my Estate besides what I have given my Son William Barter for keeping and maintaining him the S^d Richard Barter

   Item I give and bequeath to my well beloved Son Will^m Barter his Heirs and Assigns forever all the Remainder of my Household Goods with all my Debts and moveable Effects (he paying all that I justly owe and y^e Legacies before mentioned) whom I likewise constitute make and ordain my Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament. And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke and disannul all and every other former Testaments Wills Legacies 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 & 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 ye Sd Henry Barter    as his last Will and Testament In    the presence of us the Subscribers    Richard Robards    Sarah X Rose         her mark    Benja Parker junr		Heny Barter (Seal)
Probated 19 May 1747. Inventory returned 8 May 1747, at £379: 9: 0, old tenor, by Roger Mitchell, Nathaniel Hex and Benj: Parker jun., appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 543, citing Probate Office, 7, 74.