In the name of God Amen the twenty seventh day of November in the year of Our Lord One thousand seven hundred & seventy four I Jeremiah WHITE of the County of Albemarle and parish of St Annes, being very sick & weak of body, but of perfect & sound memory thanks be to God for the same, and calling to mind the uncertainty of this life and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make and ordain this & no other my last Will & Testament, and as touching such worldy estate wherewith it hath pleased God to bless me with in this life, I give devise & dispose of the same in the manner & form following that is to say, in the first place I will & order that all my lawful debts be paid.

Item I give & bequeath to my eldest son Jeremiah WHITE my great Bible and a trunk covered with seal skin.

Item I give to my son John Martin WHITE one feather bed & furniture, one young cow and a smoothe bor'd gun which he now has in custody.

Item I give & bequeath to my son Daniel WHITE one feather bed with its furniture & one young cow.

Item I give & bequeath to my youngest son Reuben WHITE one feather bed & furniture, one cow & her increase, which bed & cow he now has in his possession; also one smoothe bor'd gun his choice of the guns I now have.

Item I leave to my dear & well beloved wife Mary WHITE all the remainder of my estate, one black mare & yearling colt, land and moveables during her natural life or widowhood, and at my said wifes death or marriage, the above said mare & colt, land & premises which land contains one hundred & seventy five acres, it being the land whereon I now live, I give & bequeath to my son Reuben White and his heirs & assigns for ever.

Item I leave to my daughter Letty MELTON five shillings & nine pence.
Item I give to my daughter Betty KIDD one feather bed & furniture at my wifes decease and to my daughter Mary MARTIN one chest & to my daughter Milly Cleavland I bequeath five shillings & nine pence.

Item I give & bequeath to my daughter Ann SHACKLEFORD, one black walnut chest at my wifes decease, as for my carpenter tools I leave them for the use of the plantation, and at my wifes death or marriage to belong to my son Reuben White, & my coopers tools & my great coat, I give to my son John Martin WHITE at my decease.

Item I give to my grandson George MARTIN twenty shillings to be paid him by my son Reuben, also one heifer.

Item I constitute & appoint my loving wife Mary WHITE and my son Reuben to be the sole executors of this my last will & testament and do hereby utterly disallow, revoke & disannul, all and other former testaments wills & legacies requisels and executors by me at any time before this named, willed & bequeathed, ratifying & confirming this to be my last will & testament, In witness whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixed my seal, the day & year first within written
Jeremiah White (Seal)
Witnesses
Elijah Mooran
Jacob Fariss
George Savage
At Albemarle May Court 1777
This will was proved by the Oath of Elijah Mooran & Jacob Fariss witnesses thereto & ordered to be recorded John Nicholas Clk.