In the name of God Amen
     I James Dell of Jacksonville Duvall County
Florida being in tolerable health and of sound & disposing
mind & memory calling to mind the fruality & uncertainty
of human life & being desirous to settle my wordly
affairs while I have strength & capasity so to do
do make and publish this my last will &
testament, and hereby revoking & making null
& void all other last wills & testaments by
me heretofore made and
First     I conveyed my immortal soul to him
who gave it and my body to the earth to be
decently buried
          And as to my worldly estate
and all of the property real personal or mixed
of which I shall be seized & possessed or to
which I shall be entitled at the time of decease I
divide & bequeath & dispose thereof in the following
to wit
First     My will is that all my just debts & funeral
charges shall by my Executors hereinafter named
be paid out of my estate as soon after my funeral
as shall by them be found convenient.
I give demise & bequeath all my negro property
of which I may die seized to my children William
Thomas Dell Ann Louisa Dell James Gadsden Dell
Martha Mary Delea Dell to be equally divided
among them Except-big Jim & Peggy who are
to be disposed of as hereinafter mentioned or to these
hands all the land of which I shall die seized
& possessed or to which I shall be entitled
at the of my decease I direct to be sold so
soon as my Executors shall think it prudent
so to do & the money arising from said sales to
be funded in good stocks and the same to be
Equally divided among my aforementioned
Children or their heirs
                            James Dell