James Tarpley I Family

I bequeath my Soul to God who Gave it a my body to be Buryed as my Executors hereafter mentioned Shall think fitt. ITEM - I give and bequeath to my two Sons Thomas and Charles Tarpley two hundred and Sixty acres of Land Lying on the head of Farnham Creek to them and their heirs for ever Equally to be divided.

NOTE: Who know all the goings on in Richmond County? Well, that would be the one who wrote it all down; documented it...i.e...Sir Marmaduke Beckwith.