JOSEPH BOON'S WILL:

I Joseph Boon: Being very sick and weak of body but in perfect memory: Do give and dispose of what worldly estate God hath been pleased to endow me with: I give and dispose after this manner following:

First I bequeath my soul to God who gave it. And my body to be buried After a decent manner, According as my Executors shall feel Convienient.

Item: I give unto my son James Boon one certain tract or division of land granted by patent in my son James Boon's own name:

Item: I give unto my son Joseph Boon one hundred acres of land lying upon Ochonechy Neck at Roanoak:

Item: I give unto my son Thomas Boon one hundred and eighty acres: it being part of a tract of land containing 480 acres granted by patent: Baring Date ye first Day of March 1719: Lying ye South side of Mahering River:

Item: I give unto my son Ratcliff Boon my ---- Dwelling plantation containing 380 acres: I say unto my son Call after for his mother's --------.

Item: I give unto my son James Boon my ---- Gun:

Item: I give unto my son Joseph Boon my ------ Gun:

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..................... Boon one certain Gray mare ....... to ........ each of them one.

Item: I give unto my sister Martha Bayley a hifer and calf ........ ye:

Item: I give to my son Thomas Boon my Siord: (maybe sword??)

Item: I give unto my son James Boon one iron pot and a small one when he comes of ye age Sixteen years:

Item: I give unto my two daughters Mary and Elizabeth, for each of them one Cow and Calf:

Item: I give unto my Loving wife Mary Rest of my moveable estate .... and ..... for her to enjoy during her life and afterwards to be disposed to among my children:

And I desire my two young horses to be sold and ye produce of them to be disposed toward ye payment of my debts:

I appoint my Loving wife Executor of this my Last Will and Testament:

The Last will and Testament of Joseph

Boon Testator: To witness my hand

This 19th day of Feb: 1728

Joseph Boon ( his mark (an E))

Witness our hands: signed sealed in ye presence of us

Thomas Boon (his mark ( a T and B on the same vertical line)

Nathaniel Cooper ( in the same hand as the rest of the will)