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by estimation six hundred and thirty acres also several other tracts
joining the same and each other (viz) One tract I bought of Peter
Cartwright for two hundred acres one other tract I bought of
Christopher Edwards for four hundred and forty acres (two deeds) one
other tract I bought of Alex Balkum and a small peace took up for two
hundred and forty three acres one other tract bought of Amos Hearne
and John Dowden where John Everett lives for one hundred and sixty
acres, one other tract bought of Edward Sumerling for five hundred
and thirty acres containing inall about two thousand six hundred
acres being all the land within the within described bounds to her
my said Daughter Nancy Evans her heirs and assigns forever I also
give to my said Daughter my laarge New Church Bible and Concordance
to her and her heirs forever.-

Item 6. I give and bequeath to my Grand Son Amos Johnston Wilkins
son of James Wilkins my land and plantation whereon I now live con-
taining about nine hundred acres of land bounded by the land I
bought of Hezekiah Cartwright and gave to my son Richard W. Johnston
and lately bought of Peter Cartwright then west along that line to the
line of Peter Hines then along the said Hines Line and Hines and wife
to my Mill Pond then crossing the Mill Pond to Dempsey Skinners
corner on the west side of the Mill Pond then down the high water
mark of the Mill Pond to a brick hole just above the Tan Vatt then
nearly North to where the road crosses a small branch the line of
the land Nancy Johnston lives on, them down the branch along that
line to the Mill Swamp then down the various courses of said Swamp
to Town Creek then down the various courses of the Creek to a cypress
at the mouth of the gum branch being the corner of the land I bought
of said Cartwright and the first station (except the loan I have
made to my wife Catharine Johnston upon the said land), to him my
said Grand son Amos Johnston Wilkins his heirs and assigns forever
nevertheless it is my will and desire that should my said Grand Son
Amos Johnston Wilkins die intestate without lawfull issue that the [crossed out]