Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Eight (1705-53)

   In the Name of God Amen. The Nineteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand seven Hundred and Fortyseven, I Daniel Ferguson of Kittery in the County of York within the Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Yeomⁿ being Sick & weak but thrô Divine Goodness of sound & perfect Memory, and not expecting long to continue in this Life. Do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament, resigning my Soul to God who gave it hopeing for Mercy thrô Iesus Christ. I give & dispose of my worldly Estate real & personal in Manner following,

   Viz^t. My Will is and I do hereby give to my Son Alexander Ferguson all the Lands that I have & am entitled to in Berwick in Fee Simple I likewise give to my Said Son my Gun & wearing Apparel.

   I give & bequeath to my Daughter Elisabeth the Wife of Benj^a Goold jun^r all other my personal Estate after my Debts and funeral Charge is paid out of the Same She having had part of her Portion already.

   I constitute Eleazer Ferguson Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament.

   In Witness whereof I set my Hand and Seal hereto the Day & Year above written.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & declared by the Sd Daniel Fer-    guson to be his last Will & Testamt    in presence of    Zechariah Emery, Caleb Emery    Iames Emery Iaphet Emery		Daniel Ferguson (Seal)
Probated 6 Jan. 1752. Inventory returned — March 1752, at £27: 16: 2, by Caleb Emery and Daniel Emery Junr. appraisers. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 672, citing Probate Office, 8, 149.