In the name of god amen. I Adam Owens of the County of Tyrrell & state of North Carolina being sick of body tho perfect in mind & memory thanks be given to god. Calling to mind the mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed to all men once to die do mak & ordain this my last will & testament that is to say principally & first of all my soul I Recommend into the hands of almighty god that gave it & my body I commend to the Earth to be Buried in Decent Christian burial at the decression of my Executors herafter to be named nothing doubting but at the general resurrection I shall review the same again. By the power of god & as touching such worldly Estate where with it hath pleased god to bless me with in this life. I give Devise and dispose of in the manner & form following I Adam Owens do give to my loving son Wm Owens the plantation where he now lives on with all the cleared ground & wodlin to the devidin line & one hundred acres of sypress swamp lying to the southend of the plantation one Negro girl named Hulda one hors name Champ three cows & cavs one feather bed & furniture six stoks of bees all redy received now I give to my loving son Abraham Owens the plantation joyning Cotons with all cleared & wodlin lands to the lines round & twenty five acres joyning to the southend one Negro boy name Jethru one hors name Jock three cows & calves one feather bed & furniture six stocks of bees (a partial line that is marked out) now I lend to my loving wife Eleasebet Owens 100 acres land wher I now live during her lifetime or widohood then to mi loving son Benjaman Owens I give it one Negro woman name bregit one mair name Pleasant three cows & cavs six stocks of bees one feather bed & furniture now I give to mi loving son fedreck Owens the plantation I boat of Edward Hunning & the sypress swamp & the peas joyning & the peas at the end land which __on cleared, the __ deeds I boat of Ed Hunning. I lend to my loving wife one Negro man nam Hill untel mi son fedreck owens comes to the age of eighteen years of age & then I give Negro man Hill to mi son Fedrick Owens & all his land one mair Colt name bonnea three cows & cavs six stocks of bees one feather bed & furniture all to be delivered to him at the age of Eighteen years now I lend to my loving wife one hundred acres of land to the westend wher I now live joyning Wm. Cowell untel mi loving dauter Nancy Owens comes of age then I give it to mi dauter Nancy Owens now I lend to mi wife one Negro girl nam meriam untel mi dauter Nancy Owens comes of age & then I give the said meriam to mi dauter Nancy Owens one feather bed & furniture one linen wheel one Chest now I give to mi loving wife Elesabeth Owens one Negro man nam Peter one Negro woman nam Ruth one feather bed & furniture to be at her disposal Now I lend to mi loving wife all the rest of mi Estate within doors & with out doors during her life time or widohood & then to be equal devided amongst all mi children & lastly I appoint mi loving sons Wm. Owens & Abraham Owens mi whole & sole Executors of this mi last will & testament I declair & pronounce this & no other to be my last will & testament utterly disallowing & revolting all wills by me hertofor mad intestomoney where I have set mi hand this 6 day of July 1802 sined & sealed delivered in the presents of us

Adam Owens (seal)

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Isaac Owens
John (his -x- mark) Hooker
Benjamin (his -x- mark) Owens