Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. I William Stanley of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England being aged and infirm of Body but of perfect Mind and Memory do make and ordain this to be my last Will and Testament as follows, viz.

   Imprimis I recommend my Soul to God who gave it and my Body to the Earth to be decently buried in Such manner as my Wife Shall See meet and as to what worldly Estate it hath pleased God to give me I give and dispose of in Manner and Form following viz^t

   Imp^r I give and bequeath unto Hannah my well beloved Wife the Moiety or half part of all my Real Estate where I now dwell during her Life to be managed for her by my Sons Edward and Ioseph Stanlee as also I give to my Wife all my Cattle and all other my moveable Estate within Doors and without during her Life and after her Decease I give the Said Moveables to my Daughter Elizabeth Stanlee.

   Imp^r I give to my Well beloved Son Iohn Stanlee five Shillings old Tenor Money to be paid him by my Wife besides what I have already given him.

   Imp^r I giue to my well beloved Son William Stanlee Five Shillings old Tenor Money besides what I have already given him to be paid him by my Wife.

   Imp^r I give and bequeath unto my well beloved Sons Edward Stanlee and Ioseph Stanlee all my Farm where I now dwell which I bougt of Charles ffrost Esq^r and M^r Robert Cutt as also all my Lands in Phillipston when they Shall arrive to the Age of twenty one Years.

   Imp^r I give and bequeath to my well beloved Daughter Elizabeth Stanlee my Lot of Land and orchard thereon at or near Spruce Creek in Kittery which I bought of M^r William Godsoe, and to her her Heirs or Assigns forever.

   And lastly I do appoint my trusty Friend Tobias Leighton of Kittery afores^d to be the Sole Executor of this my last Will and Testament.

   In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and Seal this twenty third Day of February in y^e Eighteenth Year of His Maj^ts Reign Annoque Domini One Thousand Seven Hundred and forty four 1744.

Signed Sealed and Delivered by    William Stanlee aforesd to be    his last Will and Testament    in presence of us,    Benja Parker jr    Iohn Chadbourn    Sarah Leighton		William Stanlee (a Seal)
Probated 6 April 1747. Inventory returned 4 April 1747, at £803: 1: 0, by Tobias Fernald, Francis Allen jun. and Samuel Fernald, appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 541, citing Probate Office, 7, 67.