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have thought it best to consider all the estate as my own absolutely and to dispose of the whole as I have done above. To make this disposition more perfect it is my will and desire and I hereby direct that if any of the devises hereinbefore mentioned shall set up any claim as one of the heirs of my deceased wife to any portion of the estate that was hers the devisee asserting such claim shall therefore forfeit all the estate of any kind real and personal herein by me devised or bequeathed to such devisee which estate shall thereupon become a part of the residuum to be divided equally between the other devisees and legatees. It is my will and desire that my Executors or such of them as may act shall have the power and I hereby give them as such of them as may act, full authority to sell and convey all or any part of my real estate and any of my slaves to any person or persons upon any terms and at any time when they in their discretion may think proper so to do. I do not wish that there should be any appraisement made of my personal estate. I hereby nominate and appoint my son John Nivison Tazewell and my sons in law Edmund Bradford and Matthew Page Waller Executors of this my last Will and testament and as I am not indebted to any one in any material sum and have the most perfect confidence in my said son and sons in law it is my wish that no surety be required of them or of either of them for the perfect execution of the trust reposed in them as my executors. Given under my hand this Second day of December One thousand eight hundred and fifty eight. Published and declared to be the Testators last Will by him in our presence, who have in his presence and in presence of each other subscribed our names as witnesses thereto.
W.W. Sharp
Tazewell Taylor

Litt'n W. Tazewell

At a Court of the Corporation of the City of Norfolk held on the 28th day of May 1860.

The last Will of Littleton W. Tazewell deceased was proved according to

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