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In the name of God Amen I Peleg Farguson of the Country & Parish of Nottoway being weak in body but in perfect sound mind & memory do make ordain this my Last will & Testament hereby revoking all other will by me heretoforer made and after paying all my just debts I give and dispose of the rest of my Estate in maner & form following viz... Item I give & bequeath to my beloved Daughter Mary Anderson five pounds specie... Item I give & bequeath to my Son William Farguson five pounds specie... Item I give & bequeath unto my Daughter Elizabeth Jackson five pounds specie and two pewter Dishes of a middle size two pottle pewter basons six pewter plates the above pewter to be new & good... Item I give and bequeath to my beloved Daughter Lucy Tankersley five pounds specie and two middle sized pewter ddishes xx...xx..xx, one size under the other two pewter pottle basons six pewter plattes the pewter to be new & good... Item I give & bequesth unto my Grand Daughter Ann Jackson daughter of Lucy Tankersley a negroe girl by the name of Jenney together with her increase to her & the lawful heirs of her body but if should die before she marry or comes of lawful age it s my will & desire that the above named negroe Jinney shall with her increase go to my Gran Daughter Betty Tankersley daughter to my Sd. Daughter Lucy Tankersley... Item I give & bequeath to my beloved son John Farguson & his heirs foever all the rest & residue of my estate of what nature or kind soever whether real or personal provided he pays the legacies mentioned to my Daughter Mary Anderson, my Son William Farguson, Elizabeth Jackson & Lucy Tankersley and likewise he is to perform & fulfill the conditions of the memorandum made on the back of these presents. It is my will & desire that there shall be no inventory or appraisement of my Estate and that my Exceutors herein after named shall hav a reasonable time allowed them after my death to make from my estate a suffficiency to pay the money legacies, as above directed. I constitute & apoint my beloved son John Ferguson & my friend Freeman Epes my Executors of this my lasst will & testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal this first Dat of December in the year of out Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred & Ninety Five. Signed Sealed published & declared to be the last will & Testament of Peleg Farguson & by his request signed by us
Woodlief Thomas Peleg Farguson {seal}
John Mills
Edwd Mayes
Benjn Bridgforth
Item I do further add as my will & Desire and do give & bequeath unto Rebecca Chavis who has faithfully attended on me for some time past as well as at this time my weaving loom & five slays one little Iron Pott and the largest of the bigg potts three pewter plates one pewter dish one pewter bason of the old kind the old knives & forks three of the oldest chairs the old table & one barrel of corn and three hundred weight of good poark consisting of three hogs for each year for ten years Also one pair of pott hooks & the bed stead she now makes use of. The frying pan the water pail I made Eleven ducks six henns one cocke one ax and one good milk cow every year for ten year I also leave her the use of my house that stands over the cellar during her natural life with the use of as much ground as she can tend in the following, Bounds Beginning at the great gulley aaat the creek and up the said gulleyby the barn to the fence that encloses the orchard and down siad fence to th mill pond and thence down the said pond to the mill & from thence down the said creek to the beginning with the priviledge of as mcuh fruit as she an dry for her own use and to eat also as much fire wood as is necessary for her use, but if she should attempt to dispose of her right and title to the sd house and land she shall by so doing forfeit her right & Title to the whole left her she is not to keep no other person whatsoever with her but her Daughter Ritter Chavis for the use of the house & land she is to spin on pound of cotten for my son John Farguson, that will run five yards to the fine hundread slay & year.
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Woodlief Thomas Pelege {mark} Farguson {seal}
John MIlls
Edwd Mayes
Benjn Bridgforth
Editors Note: The Chavis family was descended from a Moorish Doctor who came early to Virgnia and his many descendents practiced the art of medicine and nursing.
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