Item: Impresmsses [sic] I lend onto my Dearly Beloved wife Elizabeth Vick use of one negro girl Patience while she arrives to the age of twenty one Years and then be set free for ever after I also give my hole estate real and personal unto my beloved wife Elizabeth Vick during her life or widow hood ~ Item: Then my desire is that my Estate should be divided in a manner that is to say my Brother Joshua Vick to have two parts My Brother Giles Vick to have two parts my Brother Silas Vick to have one part my sister Sarah Vick to one and a half part my Sister Piety Vick one part to them and their heirs forever I do hereby Nominate and Appoint my dearly beloved Brother Joshua and Silas Vick Executors of this my last will and testament witness whereof I have here unto set my hand and seal this 1st day of May 1789 ~ Signed & Sealed in the } presence of } Richard Vick (seal) Jesse Arrington her Martha + Arrington mark Lucy Arrington ------(||)------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ At a Court held for the County of Southampton on the 9th day of July 1789 This Will was presented in Court by Joshua Vick and Giles Vick the Executors therein named proved by the oathes of Jesse Arrington and Martha Arrington two of the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on the Motion of the said Executors who made oath according to Law Certificate is granted thim for obtaining a probat thereof in due form giving Security whereupon $C ~ Sam Kello Cl~ Source: Southampton County Will Book 4, 1783-1797 pages 321-322