Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. I Iohn Davis in the County of York in New England Cooper, being very weak in Body, but of a disposing Mind and Memory Thanks be to God therefor Calling to Mind the Mortality of my Body knowing that it is appointed to men once to die do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament in Manner and Form following, That is to Say, In the first place I give back my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, and my Body to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named, and as touching Such Worldly Things as God hath given me I give and dispose of the Same in the manner following, That is to Say, I give (after my Debts are all paid) to my Trusty and well beloved Friend Col^o Ezekiel Cushing all the Estate that I have now in Possession or all the Estate that Shall by hereafter befall me by any means way or Manner Whatsoever whether the Same be real or personal I give the Same all of it unto him the Said Ezekiel Cushing his Heir & Assign forever whom I constitute sole Executor of this my last Will, and I do hereby utterly revoke and disannul all other former Wills and declare this to be my last Will and Testament Dated at Falmouth this 25^th Day of November In the Nineteenth Year of His Majestys Reign Annoque Domini : 1745 and in Confirmation hereof I have Set to my Hand and Seal the Day and Year above written.

Signed Sealed published pro-    nounced & declared by the    Sd Iohn Davis to his last    Will and Testament In pres-    ence of us Subscribers    Benjamin Allen    Ebenezer Thorndike    Ieremah Cushing		Memo ye Words (of my Body)    were interlined before sign-    ing and Sealing And ye    Words (whom I constitute    Sole Executr of this my    last Will) were interlined    also before Signing & Seal-    ing       Iohn Davis (a Seal)          his mark
Probated 5 Nov. 1746. Inventory returned 18 Oct. 1752, at £206: 13: 3, by Rishworth Jordan, Ebenezer Hill and Martin Jameson, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 533, citing Probate Office, 7, 23.