Note: This is only an abstract of the will. Please consult the actual will.
In the name of God Amen:
I Abraham Bledsoe . . .
Secondly
I give and bequeath to my dearly beloved wife Milly Bledsoe my negro woman called and known
by the name Polly and her two eldest daughters to wit Mariah and Sealy, also the old negro fellow
Abram . . . during her natural life and at her death the farm & negros to . . . my four oldest boys,
also I
will to my eldest son David S. Bledsoe . . . to my daughter Polly . . . to my son Anthony . . . to my
son Robert . . . for my son James Bledsoe. I wish my mills and the plantation and all _? to be sold
to discharge my just debts. I wish my lands on _? River to be equally divided between my four
oldest sons . . . I do hereby appoint my brothers Isaac Bledsoe, Henry Bledsoe and James
Weathered
Executors with my wife Milly Bledsoe . . . affixed my seal this 5 day of March in the year of our
Lord 1815 . . .