Individual Details

Marriage

On p 57 at bottom
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Will

Hancock, Maine, Estate Files, No 645-767, 1790-1915, will of Theodore Stevens, will 19 April 1820, proved 27 June 1820

In Theodore Stevens's will written 19 April 1820 (proved 27 June 1820, beloved wife Dorcas receives all the household furniture and one-third of all the estate real and personal. The rest of the estate goes to his two eldest sons Varnum Stevens and Benjamin Stevens. Varnum and Benjamin are then to pay the other legacies from the estate. These are eldest daughter Elizabeth O. Holt, seventy-five dollars; second daughter Lydia F. Parker, seventy-five dollars; youngest daughter Elvira Stevens, one hundred seventy-five dollars to be paid at the time of her marriage and she also has use of a room while she remains unmarried; and youngest son John Stevens, six hundred dollars when he comes of age and one yoke of oxen. There was an additional bequest of one hundred dollars to Congregational Society in Bluehill to be used for the pedobaptist congregational minister of the Calvinistic denomination while it should have such a minister; if not, then the money is to be used for the support of the missions to the Indians at Brainard. His two oldest sons Varnum and Benjamin are named executors.