Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. The twenty first Day of February in the year of our Lord 1755. I Gilbert Warren of Berwick in y^e County of York in His Maj^ts Province of the Massachusetts Bay in New England Yeoman, being very Sickly & weak in Body but of perfect Mind & Memory Thanks be given to God, therefore calling into Mind the Mortality of my Body, and knowing that I must die, do make and ordain this my last Will & Testament that is to Say principally, and first of all, I give & recommend my Soul into the Hands of God that gave it, And my Body I recommend to the Earth to be buried in decent Christian Manner at the Discretion of my Executors. As touching my worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this Life I give demise & dispose of the Same in y^e following Manner and form. I give & bequeath to Abigail Warren my dearly beloved Wife all my Household Goods within my House and two Cows.

   I give & bequeath to my three Sons Gideon Alden & Gilbert and Heirs all my real Estate together with the remainder of my Stock that I have not mentioned and my out doors moveables they paying to my three Daughters Abigail Rachel & Lucy Ten pounds each of them of lawful Money, and they are to pay it as they come to the years of twenty, that is Gideon Shall pay his Sister Abigail Warren when She comes to the year of twenty of her Age Ten pounds, And Alden Shall pay his Sister Rachel ten pounds when She comes to y^e Years of twenty of her Age, and Gilbert Warren my Son Shall pay his Sister Lucy Warren ten pounds Money when She comes to y^e years of twenty of her Age. Likewise I give to my three Sons Gideon Warren Alden Warren & Gilbert Warren, all my Debts & moveable Effects which I have not mentioned they paying all my just Debts & funeral Charges; And I appoint Gideon Warren my Son to be Sole Executor of this my last Will & Testament; And I do hereby utterly disallow revoke & disannul all & every other former Testam^ts Wills Legacys, & Bequests & Executors by me in any ways before named willed bequeathed ratifying & confirming this & no other to be my last Will & Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the Day & year above written.

Gilbert Warren (Seal)

   Signed Sealed published pronounced & declared by the Said Gilbert Warren as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us the Subscribers,

Ioshua Emery Iohn Warren Iames Lord