THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT
OF
AGNES TRUBLOOD
September 15, 1692
Albermarle
Know all men by those presents that I AGNES TRUBLOOD of Pascotank River and of the County aforesd. Widow; through the naturall affections that I bare unto my dear children & for other good reasons md thereunto moueing: doe To my voluntary good will and naturall Respects to my four Children that is to say MARY TRUBLOOD ELIZIBETH TRUBLOOD JOHN TRUBLOOD & AMOS TRUBLOOD I doe freely give unto my four Children the one half of all the negro children that shall be begotten or born of the body of my negro woman called Diana; And if it should happen that theye should have but one that then the young negro to be valued and my Children to have theire choice either the young negro or if halfe worth of ye sd negro & if the negro woman should have two children that they shall have their first choice and soo forward be what quantitye of negro children ???? as pleases god; to be divided as aforesd. my childr. Always to have theire first choice; And I do freely give unto my Children aforesd. the mantainoned of shoes young negro until my Children (torn)mos to age to Receive them; That is my Dafter MARY to h(torn) she first negro child if it lives my Daughter ELIZIBETH the next as shay fall in corse as above mentioned, (torn)
To my Children partitularly as they come to age & likewise I do give unto my four children abovsd the mantainoned until they come to Lawfull Age for the use of their Estate; and to pay them theire portions as they come to age according to the appraisment of theire fathers Estate as witness my hand this fifteenth day of September 1692
AGNES TRUEBLOOD
Contributed and transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse