First I give and bequeath to REBEKAH MARTIN my dearly beloved wife, Seventy five acres more or less of land including the dwelling house orchard, and plantation on which I now live together with all the household furniture for her use & the raising of my young children without any attention till her death then I do ordain constitute and puress my young son JAMES MARTIN with full power to process the aforesaid seventy five acres of land with every of the aforesaid premises beginning at the lower corner at a pine stump joining THOMAS WADE's higdon tract of land so running the various courses of the lines for quantity of seventy five acres as afore mentioned.
Secondly, I give and bequeath to my daughter SARAH MARTIN, one cow and calf.
Thirdly, I give to my daughter NANCY one cow.
Fourthly, I give to my dearly beloved wife REBEKAH MARTIN one bay mare four years old last May & one sorrel mare two years old last May
Fifthly and lastly I leave the residue of my adjacents lands in the hands of my Excecutors together with one mare named Pleasure and one rifle gun to be sold by them to the highest bidder then after my debts is settled the residue of the monty to be equally divided between my first children (to wit) WILLIAM MARTIN, JOHN THOMAS, ABRAHAM, CATHREN, LEWIS, ANDREW, ISAAC, and I do hereby utterly disavow revoke and disannul all and every other former Tesstaments, Wills, Legacies, Bequeaths, and Executors by me in any before named Willed and bequeathed ratifying and confirming this and no other to be my last Will and Testament in witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this eighteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety three.
Signed, sealed, published, pronounced and declard by the said WILLIAM
MARTIN as his last Will and Testament in the presence of us who in his
presence and in the presence of each other have hereto subscribed our
names.
Witness: William Lindsley
John Smith
William (X) Martin
Enterwind and before assigned
Thomas Vining J. Thomas Martin, executors