Introduction

From York County Probate Records, Volume Three (1709-28)

The Will of Timothy Wentworth

   May the 3^th 1719/ Timothy Wentworth being very Ill & Weake but in perfect Sences.

   I bequeath my Soul to God that Gave it & my body to the Ground from whence it Came to be buried decently : as Followeth

   I give unto my true & loving wife the one half of all my Estate during her natural life & after her Decease I give to my two Sons Timothy & Samuel the whole of my Estate I Give to my Daughter Mary twenty pounds & I Give to my Daughter Sarah twenty pounds. But not to be paid till the whole of my Estate Cometh into my Sons hands nither to mary nor Sarah, none of the fourty pounds

Witness    Joseph pray    Iohn Kye    Iohn Pray		Timothy Wentworth       his mark
Probated 8 July 1719. Inventory returned 7 July 1719, at £335: 04: 00, by Joseph Pray, John Kye, and Roger Plaisted, appraisers. [Source: Maine Wills, 1640-1760 (Portland, Me., 1887), p. 317, citing Probate Office, 3, 23.]