This 12th day of September 1805. My Last Will and testament I leave my land to my child and my Wife Susanna BELL during her lifetime the land where I live now there is fifty acres and if my child dies without any heirs I leave the land then to my Brother Samuel BELL. I leave all the timber to be got up to pay the debts. I leave my Wife Susanna BELL one chest, and one linen wheel one table and six chairs. I leave one sow and pigs and six shoats to my Wife Susanna BELL, and I leave my Wife Susanna BELL eight barrels of sound corn and the largest pot and all the flax and the feather bed and furniture and all the rest of my property to be sold. I leave my Susanna BELL the executrix this will I make in perfect seinces, the day and date above written.
        /s/ Will. BELL     seal

Witness
James COWELL     jurat
Lydia BURTON      jurat
Her “R” mark

Recorded and examined the 22'^d day of Jany. Anno Dom 1806.

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