Maine Wills

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

   In the Name of God Amen. I Priscilla Waldo of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of the Massachusetts Bay Widow being in Health of Body, and of a Sound & perfect Mind & Memory, but considering my Mortality & advanced Years do make & ordain this to be my last Will & Testament. And after humbly committing my Soul to God the Father of Spirits hoping for Pardon & Acceptance with him thrô the Merits & Mediation of our Lord Iesus Christ, I recommend my Body to a decent Interment according to the Discretion of my Executors herein after named believing in the Resurrection of y^e Dead. I give devise & bequeath my worldly Estate in Manner & Form following that is to Say.

   Imprimis my Will is that all my just Debts & funeral Charges be paid by my Executors out of my Estate within convenient time after my Decease.

   Item, I give and confirm to my Son John all that wrought plate which he has already had & received out of my Estate amounting to the Quantity of one Hundred Ounces more or less,

   Item, I give and bequeath to my Son Nathaniel all the plate of which I shall die possessed or Shall not have disposed of and delivered in my life time to those to whom the Same may be conveyed. And in Case the Plate hereby given to my Said Son Nathaniel Shall not be equal in value to that which my Said Son John has had as afores^d, Nathaniel Shall have so much out of the rest of my Estate before Division as to make up that Deficiency. And whereas I have lately given to my Daughter in Law Jane Sparhawk a Suit of Silk Cloths my Will is y^t before any Division is made of my Estate my Daughter in Law Elizabeth Sparhawk Shall haue my Suit of Masquerade Damask which I hereby give & bequeath unto her accordingly.

   Item, All the rest Residue & remainder of my Estate (after the above Gifts & Bequests are Satisfied) real and personal I give devise & bequeath to my Said Sons John and Nathaniel in equal Shares (Saving only that I give the rest of my Wearing Apparel equally to be divided between my two Said Daughters in Law,) To Have and To Hold my Said Estate to them my Said Sons their Heirs and Assigns in Manner aforesaid forever

   Lastly, I constitute & appoint my Said Sons to be joint Executors of this my last Will & Testament, hereby revoking all other Wills & Testaments by me heretofore made. In Testimony whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand & Seal the twelfth Day of Iuly Anno Domini 1749, and in the twenty third year of His Majesty's Reign.

Signed Sealed & declared by the Sd    Priscilla Waldo to be her last Will    & Testamt in presence of us Wit-    nesses who Subscribed hereunto    as Witnesses in her Presence Saml    Cutt Iohn Parker Mary Moore

Priscilla Waldo (Seal)

   Kittery Iuly 15 1749. I do hereby give & bequeath unto my Grand Daughter Priscilla Sparhawk Daughter of my Son One Hundred pounds old Tenor or the Value thereof in other Money to be paid unto her at her Marriage or at her arriving to the Age of twenty one years out of the Estate that I may die Seized of by the Executors of my last Will & Testament, as Witness my Hand.—Priscilla Waldo.