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[5-13-1785]

In the Name of God Amen I Nathaniel Dukinfield of Utkinton in the
County of Chester Esquire being of sound mind and memory but in a very infirm state of health or rather
an almost cessation of Health waiting for a comfortable dismission from my afflicted painfull body and
from all the Sorrows Troubles and Evils I have been subject to in this Transitory Vain Life But that I
may leave nothing undone that ought to be done that my mind may be free from all earthly incumbrances
I do make publish and declare this to be my last will and Testament in manner and form following —
Imprimis I give devise and bequeath all my Messuages Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premises
with their and every of their Appurtenances that I am now seized or possessed of situate lying and being
in the County of Chester unto my dear Wife Margaret Dukinfield To Hold to her and the Heirs of her Body
by me begotten (that is to say) my Will is that my dear Wife Margaret shall possess enjoy receive and take the
Rents Issues and Profits of all the said Messuages Lands and Tenements for and during the Term of her
Natural Life if she shall so long continue my Widow unmarried and if it should so happen that she should
have no child living by me begotten and she continues my Widow during the Term of her natural Life Then
my will is and I do hereby give to my said ^dear^ Wife Margaret full power to make a Will and to devise bequeath
and to give by virtue of such Will the full Sum of Three Hundred pounds Sterling Money of Great Britain to
such of her own Relation or Relations nearest in Blood as she may think fit or that she may think most deserving
of her Favours the said Sum to be raised out of the Rents Issues and profits arising from my Messuages Lands
and Tenements aforesaid But if my dear Wife Margaret shall Marry again Then I give and devise all my Messuages
Lands Tenements Hereditaments and Premises with their Appurtenances in the county of Chester aforesaid unto
my Brother John Chorley and my Nephew Samuel Dukinfield son of the late John Dukinfield of Bristol Esquire
and their Heirs To Hold to them and their Heirs upon the several Trusts hereinafter mentioned (that is to say)
upon Trust from and after such Marriage and not otherwise to pay her One third only of the said Rents Issues
and Profits arising from my said Messuages Lands and Tenements for and during the Term of her natural Life And to
apply the remaining two thirds of the said Rents Issues and Profits or so much thereof as my said Trustees in their - - -
discretion shall think reasonable for the maintenance and education of such of my Children or Child by my said Wife
as shall be living at such Marriage and if there shall be any such Children or Child living at her death Then upon
Trust my said Trustees shall apply the whole Rents Issues and Profits of the said Premises or so much thereof as
they shall think reasonable for the maintenance and education of such Children or Child until the eldest of such Children
or only Child shall attain his or her Age of twenty one Years and from and after his or her attaining such Age Upon
Trust that my said Trustees and their Heirs shall as soon as conveniently may be make a proper division of equal -
proportion and of equal Value of the said premises according to the number of such Children then living the whole in
equal Share and parts to be divided and given to them the necessary Expences and Charges the said Trustees may be
at in making such division to be first paid to them But if there shall happen to be but one such Child then my
Will is that my said Trustees shall convey the said premises unto such only Child on his or her attaining such
Age as aforesaid his or her Heirs or Assigns for ever But if there should be no such Child or Children living by
me begotten on the body of my said Wife and she shall Marry again I will that my said Trustees shall
receive and take two Thirds of the said Rents Issues and Profits of the same Premises unto them the said
John Chorley and Samuel Dukinfield equally between them and pay the remaining one third unto my said Wife
for and during the Term of her natural Life And from and after her decease I give and devise my said Messuages
Lands and Tenements unto my Nephew John Chorley son of my Sister Jane Chorley to him and to his Heirs
lawfully begotten he paying to my said Nephew Samuel Dukinfield one third only of the Rents Issues and
profits of the said premises until such time that my said Nephew Samuel Dukinfield should obtain such as
Support by his profession in the Law as may raise him above the misfortune of necessity or should come into
profession of the Hereditary Title and Estate successive in the Dukinfield Family or by any other means should
obtain the comfortable supports of Life and no longer.

// I give and devise unto my worthy Friend Mr. Joseph
Collett all my Plantations Negroes and Estate of what kind or nature soever situate in North Carolina in

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