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( 16 ) [illegible] equally divided between my two Daughters their Heirs & Assigns Intent [fore]ver, Now my true [ag]reement, is that if my beloved Wife should live and die my Widow [she] may have it in her power to bequeath all the part & Interest to [illegible] in my Estate which is bequeathed her by this my last Will and - [Te]stament in such manner as she may think proper, and in Case she which [m]arries againe she is to deliver up as aforesaid To^ I shall only add [th]at in case my Executrix and Executors sell the Negroes they may. [In]dulge them in their Choice of Masters, or be perticular Carefull in [g]etting good places for them even at aloss of Twenty pr Cent, And I do now [N]ominate and appoint my loving Wife Mary Field Executrix and my [w]orthy Brother in Law thomas Yeardly and Micajah How Esqrs Executor [t]o see this my Last Will and Testament performed hereby revoking all ~ [o]ther wills by me made In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand & [S]eal this day and year afore Written September 1.st 1774 Rob:t Field {seal} Signed Sealed & delivered by the Testator as his last Will & Testament in the presence of us Wm Wood, Hannah Wood, William Newbold. Note that with my own hand I eraised the Eighteenth & part of the nineteenth lines on the firs,t side of this my Will, as they Contained ~ nothing to my mind Robert Field. William Wood and William Newbold two of the witnesses to the Within Will being two of the people called Quakers on their Solemn Affirmation do Severally declare and Say that they were present and Saw Robert Field the Testator in the within Will named Sign and Seal the same, and heard him publish pronounce & declare the within writing to be his Last Will and Testament, And that [a]t the doing thereof the Testator was of Sound and disposing mind & memory as far as they know and as they very believe, And that Hannah Wood the Other Subscribing Witness was present at the same time And Signed her name asaWitness together with the^seAffirmants in the Presence [of each] other and in the presence of the Testator~ William Wood William |
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