Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. The twenty fifth Day of Iune Annoque Domini 1747. I Iane Frost of Kittery in the County of York Widow Gentlewoman being Sick & weak but of Sound Mind & Memory, And not knowing how Soon it may please God to take me out of this World by Death Do make & ordain this my last Will & Testament, humbly resigning my Soul to God my Saviour, my Body to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named. My Estate of every Sort & kind I dispose of in the following Manner viz^t

   I give & bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Sarah Frost my Mourning Suit of Cloaths.

   Item. I give & bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Margery Wentworth my black Silk Suit of Cloaths and my Gold Necklace. Item I give & bequeath unto my two well beloved Grand Daughters Iane Frost and Iane Wentworth all the rest of my Wearing Apparrell of every Sort equally to be divided betwixt them.

   Item I give & bequeath unto my well beloved Daughter Margery Wentworth my large Silver Salver and fiue Silver Spoons which I had of my Father Since the Death of my last Husband.

   Item. I give & bequeath to my Daughter in Law Miriam Frost my Cloth Riding Hood.

   Item. All the rest and residue of my Estate of every Sort and kind soever, I give & bequeath unto my two Daughters Sarah Frost & Margery Wentworth in equal Halves to be divided.

   Item. I make & appoint my well beloved Son in Law Captⁿ William Wentworth Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament, hereby utterly revoking and making null & void all & every other former Will & Wills Bequests Legacies & Testaments by me in any manner heretofore made Ratifying this & no other to be my last Will & Testament.

   In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day and year first above written.

Signed Sealed pronounced & declared    by the Said Iane Frost to be her last    Will & Testament, In presence of,    Iohn Patch    Benja X Patch junr       his mark    Noah Emery		Iane Frost (a Seal)
Probated 25 May 1749. Inventory returned 6 April 1752, at £1788: 17: 0, old tenor, by Nathan Bartlet, Noah Emery and Caleb Emery, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 604, citing Probate Office, 7, 258.