Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen, I Jeremiah Wise of Berwick in the County of York Clerk being weak & expecting in a Short time to be taken out of this World make & ordain this my last Will & Testament resigning my Soul into God in Christ, My Will is that my Body be buried at the Discretion of my Executor. And as touching my Worldly Estate I dispose of the Same as follows.

   I give & bequeath unto my well beloved Son Iohn Wise and to his Heirs & Assigns forever all my Estate real & personal of every Sort of every kind in any place and places, he paying all my Debts; And fulfilling all Obligations from me due to all persons, and Such Legacys as hereafter in this my Will is mentioned to be paid he Shall pay in convenient time after my Decease.

   Item : I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Sarah Plaisted to be paid by my Son Iohn so much lawful Money as Shall be equal to one Hundred & Fifty pounds old Tenor so called, of the Massachusetts Bay.

   Item. I give & bequeath unto my Grandson David Moore so much lawful money as Shall be equal to one Hundred pounds old Ten^r of the Massa : Bay.

   Item. I give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Susannah Moore so much lawful Money as Shall be equal to Fifty pounds old Tenor of the Massa : Bay. My Said Son John to pay all Such Sum as Shall be due from my Estate to my Wife, and I hereby revoke all former & other Wills & Testam^ts Legacy's & Bequests, Ratifying this and no other to be my last Will & Testament. And appoint my Said Son Iohn Executor of the Same.

   Witness my Hand and Seal the 17^th Day of January 1756.

Signed Sealed published pronounced    & declared by ye Sd Iera Wise as    his last Will & Testamt, in pres-    ence of Iohn Hill, Moses Carr,    Benja Chadbourne, Noah Emery		Jeremia Wise (Seal)
Probated 9 April 1756. Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 773, citing Probate Office, 9, 138.