In the name of God Amen this may certify that I Abraham Sikes do make ordain and leave this my last will and testament in the following manners that is to say I lend unto my beloved wife during her life the house and plantation where on with one hundred acres of land and two feather beds and one year provision then I leave all the rest of my property to be sold and after paying all of my just debts the over to go to my wife life time and after her death to go to Elijah Prescott and his heirs and assignees for ever and this may also certify that I leave Nevel Russell executor to this my last will with to make sale of any property as he may think proper to satisfy the executions that against me then to see the at credit and settle the rest of the debts as he may find most convenant and to the best interest of my wife. In witness I hear unto set my hand and fix my Seal this November 27, 1834

State of North Carolina Court of Pleas and Quarter Session Carteret County. March Term 1835 The wife of Abraham Sikes exhibited into open Court and duly proved by the oath of Thomas Hancock on of the subscribing witnesses sworn that he believed the testator at the time of signing & sealing to be of sound dispasing mind & memory and Nevel Russell the executor therein named qualified as such & testametary ordered to