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also my young mare the colt of the chane mare that has always been
cauled hers. I also give to my said wife twelve head of cattle such
as she may chose out of my stock also twelve head of sheep and
thirty head of hogs such as shall be of a good quality to begin a
stock with alsoI give my said wife one hundred barrels of corn and
three thousands weight of good fat pork if my death takes place about
the time of housing a crop if not in proportion to the balance of
the year also one hundred pounds of sugar and fifty pounds of coffee
also twenty four bushels of wheat and one hundred pounds of fat and
ten pounds of loaf sugar for her support for the first year. I also
give my said wife my negro garl Syntha and child agreeable to a
writing she holds for that purpose also all the property she my said
wife possessed before our intermarriage agreeable to a written
instrument between us to that purpose. I also give my said wife five
hundred dollars in money together with five hundred dollars she
holds my written deed of gift for to make up in all the sum of one
thousand dollars. I wish her to have out of my estate exclusive of
what she holds my notes for. I also give my said wife one small
chest cauled her medicine chest and all the vials bottles and other
instruments belonging to the same to her my said wife Catharine
Johnston her heirs and assigns forever.-
Amos Johnston
Item 3. I give and bequeath to my daughter Esther Wilkins wife of
James Wilkins my land on the south side of Town Creek bounded as
follows: Beginning at a birch the corner on the creek of the land
I brought of Sarah and Drewry Drake, then along the line that divides
the Drake land from the Pitt land about a southerly direction to
where the line strikes the horsepen branch a little to the south of
where Jas. Pitt formerly lived now cauled the Pitt place then up the
various courses of the said horsepen branch to theMeeting house Road t
then a line due West to Jomas Walstons line than along said Walston,
line to the line of the land I bought of Solomon Forehand where
Zachariah Hicks now, lives then along that line southerly to
Dempsey Skinners line then along his line Eastwardly to another of
his lines then along his other line northwardly to the corner, then