In the name of God Amen, I Dickerson Wood of Fauquier County and desires this to be my last will and testament. First I give and bequeath to Mary my dearly beloved wife all and every thing I possess during her life excepting one Negro girl by the name of Poll and she is to go to my eldest son Dickerson Wood and he is to pay the annual rent for the lone use of said girl. And also there are four Negro boys by the names Larry, Pompy, Peter and Jeffery to be equally divided with my four sons Dickerson Wood, William Wood, Elijah Wood and James Wood as singular from the rest of my other property, and if one of these Negro boys should die, to be made good of my other property, and at the death of Mary my wife all my lands and moveable estate to be equally divided among all my children both sons and daughters.
Witness present
Leonard Smoot
Lewis Jones
Enoch Smoot

At a court held for Fauquier County the 25^th day of July 1803.
       This will was proved by the oaths of Leonard Smoot, Lewis Jones and Enoch Smoot witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. And on the motion of Mary Wood who made oath and together with William Grimsley, John Edwards and William Wood her securities entered into and acknowledge bond in the penalty of five thousand dollars conditioned as the law directs, certificate is granted her for obtaining letter of administration with the will annexed.