.--In consideration of the consanguinity between them and my wife,
being as nearly related to her as to myself, as on account of the
affection I had for, and the obligation I was under to, their father
when living, who from his youth had attached himself to my person, and
followed my fortunes through the vicissitudes of the late Revolution,
afterwards devoting his time to the superintendence of my private
concerns for many years, whilst my public employments rendered it
impracticable for me to do it myself, thereby affording me essential
services, and always performing them in a manner the most filial and
respectful; for these reasons, I say, I give and bequeath to _George
Fayette Washington_ and _Lawrence Augustine Washington_, and their
heirs, my estate east of Little Hunting Creek, lying on the River
Potomac, including the farm of three hundred and sixty acres, leased to
_Tobias Lear_, as noticed before, and containing in the whole, by deed,
two thousand and twenty-seven acres, be it more or less; which said
estate it is my will and desire should be equitably and advantageously
divided between them, according to quantity, quality, and other
circumstances, when the youngest shall have arrived at the age of
twenty-one years, by three judicious and disinterested men; one to be
chosen by each of the brothers, and the third by these two. In the mean
time, if the termination of my wife's interest therein should have
ceased, the profits arising therefrom are to be applied for their joint
uses and benefit.

THIRD.--And whereas it has always been my intention, since my
expectation of having issue has ceased, to consider the grandchildren of
my wife in the same light as I do my own relations, and to act a
friendly part by them; more especially by the two whom we have raised
from their earliest infancy, namely, _Eleanor Parke Custis_ and _George
Washington Parke Custis_; and whereas the former of these hath lately
intermarried with _Lawrence Lewis_, a son of my deceased sister, _Betty
Lewis_, by which union the inducement to provide for them both has been
increased; wherefore I give and bequeath to the said _Lawrence Lewis_,
and _Eleanor Parke Lewis_, his wife, and their heirs, the residue of my
Mount Vernon estate, not already devised to my nephew, _Bushrod
Washington_, comprehended within the following description, viz. All the
land north of the road leading from the ford of Dogue Run to the Gum
Spring, as described in the de