You can obtain a copy of the will from the Sumner County Archives.
Note: My copy is very faded and difficult to read. The surname on this will is either Hellin or Hellen.

In the name of God Amen: I Mary Hellen of Sumner County and State of Tennessee being weak in body but of sound and perfect mind and memory blessed be God for the same do make and publish this my last will and testament in manner and form following
That is to say

First
I give and bequeath to my daughter Sophia's (?) natural son commonly called James Hellen _ my negro wench named Phebe and no more of my estate real or personal. I give and bequeath to my son Jesse Hellen my negro wench named Beth and no more of my estate real or personal. I give and bequeath to my daughter Sarah Walldrus/Walldrup my negroes Callen, Jacob, Dick and D___ and no more of my estate real or personal. Lastly I do hereby constitute and appoint James Winchester my Executor, and do hereby ___ that my said Executor would __ the ___ Legacies hereby bequeathed delivered to the several Legacies agreeably to this my last will and testament hereby revoking all former wills by me heretofore made. In witness whereon I have hereunto set my hand and seal the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety eight.
Signed, sealed, published and ___ by the before named Mary Hellen to be her last will and Testament in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names in the presence of the ___.
Paul Harpole
Barbary Harpole
Her
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Mark Mary
Her Mark
Hellen

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