First.....I Give & Bequeath my Solle to Allmighty God that Gave it to me hoping throue the Death & Merit of my Lords and Savor Jessus Christs to Etarnelle happiness after this painfull Life is Ended & my body to the Earth from whence it came to be descently buried at the hands of my Executor & Administrator named.
FFIRST.....I Give & Bequeath all my land to my son William Akers & his heirs forever But if my sd son shall Be without issue off his body Lawfully begotten then its my will & desire that all my Land as shall gone to my Granddaughter Elizabeth Smith & her heirs forever.
SECONDLY.....My will & desire is that my Dauffter Anne Smith shall live upon and have the use of my Plantation & all my land from my Spring Branch to the land of Richd Jones during her natural liffe. &
THIRDLY.....My will & desire is that all my personal Estate shall be equally Divided Between my son William Akers and my Daffter Ann Smith & her heirs forever, Leaving & Ordering my son William Akers & my Daffter Ann Smith my holle & solle Executors of this my Lafte Will and Testament.
As witness my hand & seale this 24 day of ffbury 1702
his
William WA Akers
mark
Signed & Sealed
in
the
presence of us
Her
hannah HR
Ratliff
Mark
Jno Lamore
James
Boughan
Prob'd in
Essex County Court the 10th
day of Augt 1702 by ye
oath
of
James Boughan & John Lemore two of
the
witnesses
thereto & truely recorded.
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