I Robert Hicks of the County of Greensville and State of Virginia being weak in Body but of perfect mind and memory do make this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following vizt. Item I lend unto my trusty friend John Watson during his natural life my plantation named New market in South Carolina with fifty Acres of Land on Raeford Creek bought of Frederick Spagner Also nine Negroes and their increase vizt Jack, Pamela, Cyrus, Toney, Jenny, Charlotte, Robin, Sizey and Delsey, also my young black mare and bay Horse named Parker together with the Stock of Cattle and Household furniture for the use & benefit and support of himself my daughter Mary the daughter of my first wife Angelina Hicks deceased, and Children if there should be any surviving begotten of her Body.  If John Watson should decease before my daughter Mary I leave the Estate in the hands of Hicks Chappell and John Hopkins as Trustees for my Daughter Mary and Children if there be any. After the death of John Watson and my Daughter Mary if my daughter should have any Children that should live to Lawful Age begotten of her Body my will and desire is that Estate shall belong to them share and share alike to them and their heirs and assigns forever. if there is not any Children that survives, the Issues of my Daughter Mary, My will and desire is that the above Estate shall belong to my Daughter Martha Dixon Greenway Hicks and the Child my wife Mary Hicks is pregnant with, to them their heirs and Assigns forever. Item I lend unto my loving wife Mary Hicks all my Estate both real and personal not heretofore lent nor given during her widowhood for the benefit and support of her and her Children.  If she should mary (sic) I lend her one third part of the Estate during her natural life, and the remainder of the Estate both real and personal I give to my Daughter Martha Dixon Greenway Hicks and the Child that my wife is pregnant with and if either of them should die before they comes of lawful Age the surviving one of the two it shall belong to, to them their heirs and Assigns forever.  My will and desire is that if both my Children of the wife of Mary Hicks should die before they comes of lawful age that the Estate may descend unto my Grand Children if they be any surviving one of my Daughter Mary's to them their heirs and Assigns forever. I do appoint my friends Winfield Mason, and James Parham, and my wife Mary Hicks Executors, and Executrix of this my last Will and Testament.  In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my Hand and affixed my Seal this first Day of March being in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety Six.

Signed Sealed delivered & acknowledged                                  Robt. Hicks (L.S.)
in the presence of
Jas. Parham
Eliza Parham    Dolly Peterson

Greensville County Court June 1798.  This Will was proved according to Law by James Parham and Eliza Parham, Witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded and on the Motion of Mary Hicks the Executrix therein named who qualified thereto according to Law and with Martha Greenway and John Blunt Turner her Securities acknowledged Bond in the Penalty of Twenty Thousand Dollars with Condition as the Law directs Certificate was granted her for obtaining a probate thereof in due form. Liberty being reserved for the Executors therein named to qualify thereto when they think fit.

                                                                      Teste   P. Pelham

Will Book 1, page 378-379, Greensville County, Virginia