Imprimis - Item my will & desire is that all my just debts & funeral expenses be first satisfied
Item - I give to my son Mourning Winn one negro boy named Abraham to him and his heirs forever
Item - I lend to my beloved wife Ann Winn the land and plantation whereon I now live except the reserves hereafter mentioned but my son Little Beary Winn be allowed the liberty to build on the upper part of the said land convenient to cultivate part of the said plantation land to my present wife which I do lend to her with all the stock of every kind, with all my household furniture together with my still & the following eight negroes George, Great Jude, Dinah, Phillis, Dick, Age, Barberry, and Ceasar during her natural live which estate so lent to her is to be managed according to the discretion of my Executors hereafter named
Item - My will & desire is that the eight negroes and the movable effects with my still now standing & their future increase to be equally divided at the death of my beloved wife Ann Winn between my eight children hereafter mentioned
John Winn, Peter Winn, Lucretia Hundley, Little Beary Winn, Mourning Winn, Mary Ann Winn, Jincey Stone and Jerusha Gunn to them & their heirs forever, _____ a Book called Berkee on the new testament which I give, devise & bequeath to my son John Winn.
Item - I give to my daughter Elizabeth Allen one spoon to her and her heirs forever
Item - I give and bequeath to my daughter Millender Stone fifteen pounds to be paid within twelve months after the division of my estate as above directed by my executors, my will and desire is that if the British debts which I am owing should not be paid before the division of my estate shall take place as aboved directed, then that each child coming into such division shall pay their proportion of the said debt, whenever it must be paid
Item - I give unto my son Little Beary Winn the land and plantation whereon I now live according to the new line beginning at a corner Walnut tree on the creek thence new line northward to a corner Red Oak new line continues eastward to a corner Hickory in William Bett's line on the head of the hickory land branch it being the upper part of my land to be in full possession thereof at the death of my wife to him and his heirs forever
Item - I give unto my son Peter Winn the lower part of my land according to the new line as before mentioned with ninety acres a survey lying on the opposite side of the creek which is now in his possession to him and his heirs forever. I do hereby constitute John Winn, Peter Winn and Willian Hundley Executors of this my last will and testament revoking and disannulling all and every will or wills by me heretofore made
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this seventeenth day of August one thousand seven hundred and ninety three
John (Seal) Winn
Signed in the presence of
Henry Stokes
Wm Betts
William Brown
At a Court held for Lunenburg County the 12th day of February 1795. The last Will and testament of John Winn, dec'd was exhibited in Court by Peter Winn one of the Executors therein named, and was proved by the oaths of two of the witnesses thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of the said Executor, who made oath according to law, certificate is granted him for obtaining probate of the said will in due form, he giving security, whereupon he together with his securities entered into and acknowledged bond according to law reserving liberty for the other Executors named in the said will to join in probate when he shall think fit
William Taylor, CLC