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Northumberland
Co.
Virginia In the name of God Amen the last will and Testamt. of Mary Broughton Widow the Relict of Thomas Broughton dec'd. being of perfect mind & memory doe dispose of my worldly Estate as followeth after the bequeathing of my Soul unto my maker from whom I had it and my body to be buried as I have given order to my Executr. William [--?--] him I have appointed Executor & to my [--?--] James Daniell & George Courtnell whom [--?--] of this my last [--?--] I bequeath to my Executr. [--?--] to his heires for ever the land [--?--] lived at the writeing and ensealing [--?--] three hundred acres of land with [--?--] on by Anthony Lyntons with all [--?--] in as ample manner as I [--?--] I likewise give to my sd. Exr. [--?--] upon which I was [--?--] with a paire of sheets and the [--?--] Raynors [--?--] daughter Susanna Gardner all my [--?--] except two petticoats I likewise [--?--] with a kettle that holdeth twelve [--?--] ozon [--?--] napkins with a table cloth [--?--] and John Gardner a stear of fower [--?--] my Grand Child their daughter I [--?--] two yeares of age with ye increase for ever. Item [--?--] to my sone Thomas Keene the Chest [--?--] ffathers with a [--?--] two bolsters a rugg & [--?--] I likewise give him a gun. Item I give to my sonne Matthew Keene a pair of bolsters with a rugg & blanket an likewise a chest thate stands in the [--?--] at the end of my lodging rooms. ffor my other household stuff I give to be equally divided among my three sonnes William Thomas & Matthew Keene equally to be shared and not any part nor parcel to be made away or sold I give likewise my hoggs to run on in stock for provision for them and when eyther of my sonnes depart from the other my desire is that at their separating that my Executor will give to eyther of my sonnes Thomas & Mathew one breeding sowe. ffor my Cattle my desire is that after my debts be satisfied that they may be shared between my Sonnes Thomas and Matthew onely to my sonne Matthew I give two Cowes more than to Thomas and I give to William Mousely my God child one Cowe & alsoe & likewise another to Elizabeth Perry & one to my servant Robert Briorio wch. bequeath I desire my Executor to satisfy. As for my ffriend Thomas Daniell my desire is that hee live upon my nowe dwelling plantacon fower years after my decease & to see that my sonnes Thomas and Mathew may be educated in learning & for the reall performance thereof I leave my Servants for their maintenance and for the true performance of the aforementioned I sett to my hand and Seale this second day of January in the yeare of our Lord one thousand six hundred sixty & two.
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