committed to writting on this present day, and are as follows. I desire all that I have may be equally "divided between Lydia Porter Polly Vaughan Fanny Vick and Betsy Vick And I desire that you Milly Porter will see it done according to my desire." We Milly Porter & Patty Vick do hereby pronounce that the said Lydia Vaughan did on Sunday night the 20th day of the present month at the house of the said Noel Vick in her last sickness declare her will & desire before them as above mentioned, and that she called upon them to take notice of such her desire & that she several times afterwards particularly requested the said Milly Porter to see it done & fulfilled as she directed under our hands & seals this 20th date of Decr 1795 --- The said Lydia Porter is daughter of John Porter decd the said Poly Vaughan & Fanny Vick is daughters of the sᵈ Polly Vick & the said Betsy Vick is daughter of R Vick her Signed Sealed Published & declared Milly + Porter in presence of mark Jo Vick } her Willm Johnson } Polly + Vick mark At a Court held for the County of Southampton on 11 day of February 1796 This writing purporting the nuncupative will of Lydia Vaughan decd was presented in Court. Where upon Milly Porter & Polly Vick after being sworn depos'd that the testator called on them in her last sickness at the house of Noel Vick that the testamentry words contain in this writing were the same which she spoke at that time on consideration whereof this writing is established and ordered to be recorded Sam Kello Cl ========================================================================================== [In the left margin] Hart Jesse Will In the Name of God Amen I Jesse Hart of Southampton County do make & order this to be my last will and testament & for what temporal estate to hath pleas'd God to bestow on me I dispose of in manner & form following Item: I Give to my son Richard Hart the plantation whereon I now live containing Eighty acres more or less to him and his heirs forever beginning at the head of snake branch down the said branch to the fork thence a straight line to the head of Haw slash down said slash to the low grounds of the swamp from thence a straight line west Course to the main run what but if my son Richard should die without lawful issue for my son Moses to possess the said land Item: I Give to my son William Hart the plantation whereon I now live containing one hundred acres more or less to him and his heirs forever, But if my son William should die without lawful issue for my son Samuel Hart to possess the said land Item: I give to my son Moses Hart all the land I bought of Jesse Womble containing one hundred & twenty five acres more or less to him and his heirs forever Item: I Give to my son Moses Hart seven pounds in money Item: I Give to my son William Hart seven pounds in money Item: I Give to my son Samuel Hart Twenty pounds in money Item: I Give to my daughter Mary Hart ten pounds in money Item: I Give to my daughter Mildred Hart ten pounds in money Item: I Give to my daughter Jane Hart fiften pounds in money Item: I Give to my daughter Charity Hart fiften pounds in money ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Received by the STP (go-stp.com) from Fenton Harrison on 3/5/23 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------