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In the name of God Amen! I William Day of the City of Norfolk in the State of Virginia, being in feeble health, but of a sound mind, and having in view and approaching day of dissolution I do make and ordain this my last will and testament: That is to say, I will and direct that my Executors hereinafter named shall as soon as may be after my decease proceed to pay off all my debts of every kind, and for this purpose I appropriate all moneys, notes, amounts, that I may leave at my decease, also all shares and interest I may own in point Stock compouns, such as Exchange Bank Stock, Stock in the Washington and American Esurance Companies, in the Merchants and Mechanics Savings Banks and on the Steamer Sea Bird excepting fifty shares in the Exchange Bank to be hereafter disposed of, also for the same purpose of paying my debts, I direct my Executors to sell privately or publicly as they may deem best within two years after my decease the following houses and lots in Norfolk, is so many of them as may be necessary to pay off all my debts aforesaid, one brick house and lot on Walter Street, near the Market house, house and lot on North Church above Town Bridge, all of the lots on Cumberland Street, North Street and Liberty Street bought by Lewis Salusbury, all the lots and house on Queen Street and Cumberland bought from William Brock, and house and lot on Cumberland Street adjoining the one recently sold to James T Garhans, or so many of them, proceeding as they are named, as may be sufficient for the purposes aforesaid. 

But in case all of the property now appropriated for that object should insufficient for the said purposes, then I will and direct that all my other houses and lots in the City of Norfolk except the one on Washington Boush Streets be rented out by my Executors for one or two or tree years and the rents and the profits arriving therefrom to be applied to the payment of land debts, and should not all of the forgoing provisions to be sufficient for that purpose, then I direct my Executors to pay the same from any source which may be thought best and advisable.

Secondly, I give and devise to my dearly beloved wife Margaret C. Day the house, and lots on Washington and Boush Streets, together with all my household and kitchen furniture of any kind and description and all my servants and the fifty shares of Exchange Bank Stock heretofore excepted, when the same shall be redeem from all incumbrances to have and to hold the