EIGHTH GENERATION

226. Joseph Weeks ⁽⁴⁷³⁵⁾⁽⁴⁷³⁶⁾⁽⁴⁷³⁷⁾⁽⁴⁷³⁸⁾⁽⁴⁷³⁹⁾ was born about 1670.⁽⁴⁷⁴⁰⁾⁽⁴⁷⁴¹⁾ He signed a will on 19 Nov 1741.⁽⁴⁷⁴²⁾ He died between 19 Nov 1741 and 14 Dec 1741 in Kittery, York Co., Maine.⁽⁴⁷⁴³⁾ His estate was probated on 14 Dec 1741.⁽⁴⁷⁴⁴⁾ Probate Office, 5, 250.

In the Name of God Amen The nineteenth Day of Novembr Anno Domini one Thousand seven hundred forty & one I Joseph Weeks of Kittery in the County of York in the Province of ye Massachusets Bay in New-England Husbandman being very sick & weak in Body but of perfect Mind & memory Thanks be given to God. Therefore calling unto mind ye Mortality of my Body do make & Ordain this my Last Will & Testament. Principally & first of all I give & Recomend my Soul into ye Hands of God that gave it and my Body I
recomend to ye Earth to be buried in Decent Christian Manner at ye Discretion of my Executrix: And as Touching such worldly Estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me in this Life I give Demise and dispose of ye same in ye following manner & form.

Imprimis, I give & bequeath unto Mary my dearly beloved Wife her Heirs & assigns for ever that four Acres of Land that I have at my Brother Nicholas Week's his Land and dureing her Natural Life the Use Improvement & Incom of ye Western part of my Land whereon I now dwell to begin at ye Water side & to run from thence to an apple Tree a little distance from a certain Thorn bush & from the said Apple Tree on a strait Course to a Certain Rock near ye Stone wall & from ye sd Rock to ye Bounds between my Son in Law Daniel Jones's Land & mine; and also ye Western end of my dwelling House & all my Personal Estate & moveable Effects both in the House & in every other place for her comfortable maintainance & ye abovesd Land & house to Her disposal at her Decease to any of my Children.

2ly I give to my well beloved Son Nicholas Weeks his Heirs & assigns for ever that Tract or parcel of Land whereon he now dwells & possesseth Containing about thirty two Acres be it more or Less; & also one third part of my Common Rights.

3ly I give to my well-beloved Son Benjamin Weeks his Heirs & assigns for ever my Land from ye water side to an apple Tree called a Lamb Stone apple Tree & from thence back towards my Barn to an Apple Tree standing on a Rock & from thence to ye begining of the Lain by ye Barn & from thence to his Stone wall at the further end of the Lain & from thence on a straight Course to a Spring of Water, and from thence to ye Barrs by the Country Road, and the privilidge of half ye Barn the Abovesaid Land is bounded on one side by Mr Parkers Land; I also give to him his Heirs & assigns for ever three Acres of Land which I have in ye woods joining to & bounded as by his Land & also one third part of my Comon Right: & the Housing that is upon ye Land that I
have in these presents given him.

4ly I give to my wellbeloved Son Abraham Weeks his Heirs & Assigns for ever all my Land which I have lying between ye Lands that I have given in these psents to my Wife Mary & his Brother my Son Benjamin Weeks to Daniel Jons's Land & ye Country Road & also one third part of my Common Right & ye Eastern End of my dwelling house & half my Barn Excepting & reserveing so much of ye Barn as my Wife Mary shall see fit to make Use of dureing her Natural Life.

5ly I give to my well beloved Daughters Judith Hutchins & Martha Jones.& my Grand Son Benjamin Morgeridge all my Personal Estate & moveable Effects that shall remain & be found left after ye Decease of my dearly beloved Wife Mary to be divided between them in equall Shares or parts.

6ly I Constitute make & Ordain my dearly beloved Wife Mary Weeks my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will & Testament And I Do hereby utterly disallow revoak & Disannull all & every other former Testaments Wills Bequests & Executors by me in any ways named Willed & bequeathed Ratifying & Confirming this & no other to be my Last Will & Testament, In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & Seal ye Day & year abovewritten.

Signed sealed published pro- memorandum that what is
nounced & Declared by ye sd blotted out in ye thir-
Joseph Weeks as his Last teenth line on ye other
Will & Testament in ye psence side and the words to her
of Us the Subscribers. disposal at her Decease
Joseph Weeks to any of my children &
his the word Heirs & the
Henry ?? Beals words to Daniel Jones's
mark Land & the Country Road
Deborah Williams. were interlined before
signing.
Joseph Weeks (Seal)

Probated 14 Dec. 1741. Inventory returued 12 March 1741-2, at o1125: 14: 0, by Thomas Cutt, Joseph Weeks and Benjamin Parker, jun., appraisers. Debt due from Thomas Cutt. He was married to Adah Briar before 1696.⁽⁴⁷⁴⁵⁾⁽⁴⁷⁴⁶⁾⁽⁴⁷⁴⁷⁾⁽⁴⁷⁴⁸⁾

227. Adah Briar⁽⁴⁷⁴⁹⁾ was born about 1665. She died about 1702. Children were:

77 i. Judith Weeks.
ii. Mary Weeks⁽⁴⁷⁵⁰⁾ was born on 8 Sep 1697 in Kittery, York Co., Maine.⁽⁴⁷⁵¹⁾⁽⁴⁷⁵²⁾⁽⁴⁷⁵³⁾
iii. Nicholas Weeks⁽⁴⁷⁵⁴⁾ was born on 27 Aug 1699 in Kittery, York Co., Maine.⁽⁴⁷⁵⁵⁾⁽⁴⁷⁵⁶⁾⁽⁴⁷⁵⁷⁾
iv. Benjamin Weeks⁽⁴⁷⁵⁸⁾ was born on 8 Jul 1701 in Kittery, York Co., Maine.⁽⁴⁷⁵⁹⁾⁽⁴⁷⁶⁰⁾⁽⁴⁷⁶¹⁾