Maine Wills

 From York County Probate Records, Volume Nine (1743-58)

   In the Name of God Amen. I Benjamin Ingersell of North Yarmouth in the County of York, and Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Gentⁿ being Sick & weak and not knowing the time of my great Change, but being of a perfect Mind & Memory to dispose of my Estate which God has bestowed on me Do ordain & appoint this my last Will & Testament. Imp^r I will give & begive my Spirit to God who gave it, and my Body to the Dust from whence it was taken, to be decently buried at the Discretion of my Executor hereafter named, and whereas It has pleased God to bless me with Several Children to wit, Mary Martha Benjamin William Nathaniel Ioseph Sarah & Hannah to all which I have given their Portions & parts in full of all my Substance & Estate Separately according to my Will, And I do therefore give & bequeath unto my beloved Wife Sarah, all & Singular my Goods Chattels & Lands with my whole Estate both Real & personal, with all my Household Stuff & Creatures with Dues & Demands to her the Improvement of my Real Estate during her Natural Life; And after her Decease all my real Estate I give to Benjamin Parker jun^r of North Yarmouth my Grandson his Heirs Assigns forever, And all my moveable Estate & Household Goods both within Doors & without Doors to be my above named Wife's Sarah's and at her Disposal forever; It is also further my Will that whereas there's Several Small pieces of Land in Partnership betwixt me & the Heirs of Captⁿ Iames Parker Dec^d To Wit part of a Right on Whale Boat Island, and part of an equivalent Lot near Jacob Browns all in Northyarm^o afores^d Now if the Heirs of the Said Captⁿ Iames Parker Shall Sell their Said part before the Decease of my beloved Wife Sarah, then my Wife Sarah to Sell my Right and give a Title to the Same, and the Sale thereof to be to her own Use as the Moveables forever, I also constitute my beloved Wife Sarah Ingersell Executrix of this my last Will & Testament. In Witness where of I the Said Benjamin have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Ninth Day of April One Thousand Seven Hund^d Fifty & five 1755.

Signed Sealed Delivered & Declared    to be the last Will & Testamt of    the Sd Benja Ingersell, before Us    Benoni Fogg Abraham Pettingall    Barnabas Seabury		Benj. Ingesll (Seal)
Probated 6 Oct. 1755. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 760, citing Probate Office, 9, 109.