Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-02-22

Idental expenses, to the amount OF
near five thousand dollars over and
above the funds furnished by their es-
! tate, which sum it may be incon-
venient for them or their fathers es-
| tate to refund-I do, for these reasons
acquit them and the said estate from
the payment thereof-my intention be-
ing that all accounts between them
and me, and their fathers estate and
me, shall stand balanced
Item. The balance due TO me from
the estate of Bartholomew cambridge
deceased (my wife's brother) and
which amounted, on the first day Of
| October 1795, to four hundred and
| twenty-five pounds (as will appear by
an account rendered by his deceased
son. John cambridge, who was the
acting executor of his fathers Wild l
release and acquit from the payment
thereof-and the negroes (then thirty
three in number) formerly belonging
| to the said estate, who were taken in
execution, sold and purchased on my
account in the year (blank) and have
ever since remained in the possession
and to the use of Mary, widow OF the
said Bartholomew cambridge. with
their increase it is my will and desire
shall continue and be in her posses
sion, without paying hire or making
compensation for the same, for the
time past or to come, during her ma
tural life; at the expiration of which
| direct that all of them who are forty
years old and upwards, shall receive
their freedom; all under that age and
above sixteen, shall serve seven years,
and no longer; and all under sixteen
years, shall serve until they are
twenty-five years Of age, and then be
free.-And to avoid disputes respect
ing the ages of any of these negroes,
they are to be taken into the court
of the county in which they reside,
and the Judgment thereof, in this rela-
ton. shall be final, and record thereof
made, which may be adduced as evi.
dence at any time thereafter, if dis
putes should arise concerning the
same-And | further direct that the
heirs of the said Bartholomew Dan
bridge shall, equally, share the bene.
fits arising from the services OF the
said negroes, according to the tenor
of this devise, upon the decease Of
their mother.
Item. If Charles Carter, who inter-
married with my niece, Betty Lewis,
is not sufficiently secured in the title
to the lots he had of me, in the town
of Fredericksburg, it is my will and
desire that my executors shall make
such conveyances Of them as the law
requires. to render it perfect.
| Item To my nephew, William Angus
tine Washington, and his heirs if he
should conceive them to be. objects
worth prosecuring) and to his heirs,
a lot in the town of Manchester Cop.
posite to Richmond) No. 265, drawn on
nv sole account, and also the tenth of
one or two hundred acre lots, and 2
or 8 half acre lots, in the city and vi
cinity of Richmond, drawn in partner
shin with nine others, all in the lot
terry of the deceased William Burd, are
given, as is also lot which l pur-
chased of John Hood, conveyed by
William Willie and Samuel Gordon,
trustees of the said John Hood num-
bered 1879, in the town of Edinburgh,
in the county of Prince George, state
of Virginia.
Item. To my nephew, William Angus
Washington, l give and bequeath all
my papers in my possession, which re.