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
Dandridge_, who was the acting executor of his father's will), I 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 in on my account, in the year (_blank_),
and ever since have remained in the possession and to the use of _Mary_,
widow of the said _Bartholomew Dandridge_, with their increase, it is my
will and desire shall continue and be in her possession, without paying
hire, or making compensation for the same for the time past, or to come,
during her natural life; at the expiration of which, I direct that all
of them who are forty years old and upward shall receive their freedom;
and 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
respecting 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 relation, shall be final, and record thereof made, which may be
adduced as evidence at any time thereafter, if disputes should arise
concerning the same. And I further direct, that the heirs of the said
_Bartholomew Dandridge_ shall equally share the benefits 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 intermarried 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 Augustine Washington_, and his heirs (if
he should conceive them to be objects worth prosecuting), a lot in the
town of Manchester (opposite to Richmond), No. 265, drawn on my sole
account, and also the tenth of one or two hundred-acre lots, and two of
three half-acre lots, in the city and vicinity of Richmond, drawn in
partnership with nine others, all in the lottery of the deceased
_William Byrd_, are given; as is also a lot which I purchased of _John
Hood_, conveyed by _William Willie_ and _Samuel Gordon_, trustees of the
said _Joh