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to the Mill Pond at Skinners corner then along the highwater mark
down the Mill Pond to a brick hole just above the tan vat then nearly
north to a small branch where the road crosses it to the line of
the land where Nancy Johnston lives then along that line down the
run of the said branch to the Mill Swamp then down the various
courses of said swamp to Town Creek then up the said Creek the various
courses thereof to the first station (except the Dower
wright of Nancy Johnston which is on said land and a loan to said
Nancy of the small part between her Dower line and the land of
Dempsey Skinner for life) to my said Daughter Esther Wilkins her
heirs and assigns forever (except as above excepted) I also give to
my said Daughter my large Church Bible that was my Fathers and my
Pocket Hymn Book and my Oval Walnut Table to her her heirs and forever

Amos Johnston

Item 4. I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Battle wife of Joel
Battle one tract of land lying and being on Town Creek on the north side
joining the land of Drewry Willaims Hardy Flowers and others former-
ly the property of Martin Gardner which I hold by deed from James
Wilkins who purchased it at said (Gamin?) Sale for four hundred acres
more or less, also I give to my said Daughter my small church Bible
and two Volumes of Erskins Works, to her my said Daughter her heirs
and assigns forever.

Amos Johnston

Item 5. I give and bequeath to my daughter Nancy Evans wife of Peter
Evans all the land I now own on Tar River that I bought of John
Andrews, William Copeland and the heirs of Dempsey Copeland cauled
the Copeland place containing about four hundred acres includng all
my wright title and itnerest in the said Copeland land - also one other
tract or parcel of land on the South side of Town Creek bounded as
follows (viz) Beginning at the mouth of the gum branch in said Creek
and running up the said branch to a gum a corner of the land I lately
bought of the heirs of Rich. W. Johnston dec'd. and so bounded by the
lines of that tract as to include the whole of the tract I gave to
my son Richard W. Johnston cauled the Cartwright place containing