“Witness,
“Edmund Morgan,
“Jo. M. Daniel,
“Robert Carrington.
“N.B.—When I was about to embark for Europe, in 1822, I did write a codicil on board the steamboat that was carrying me to the packet ship Amity, which codicil by my direction, Mr. Leigh destroyed.
“Since writing the above, it has occurred to me that the will referred to, as being in Mr. Leigh’s possession, makes no disposition of the land that I purchased of Walter Coles and Letty his wife; also the land I bought of ... Daniel, consisting of two small tracts in Halifax; also, of the land purchased of Pleasant Lipscomb’s heirs. Now this writing witnesseth, that I give and bequeath the whole of the above recited lands, purchased since the date of my will aforesaid, to William Leigh, Esquire, my faithful friend, who has given me aid and comfort, not with words only, but by deeds.
“I also give and bequeath to him and his heirs forever, not each and every of the aforesaid tracts of land, but all the property of every description and kind whatsoever that I may have acquired since the date of that will aforesaid.
“Witness my hand and seal this same sixth day of May, 1828.
“John Randolph, of Roanoke, (Seal.)
“Edmund Morgan,
“Jo. M. Daniel,
“Robt. Carrington.
“In the will above recited, I give to my said ex’or, Wm. Leigh, the refusal of the land above Owen’s (now Clark’s) ferry road, at a price that I then thought very moderate, but which a change in the times has rendered too high to answer my friendly intentions towards my said executor in giving him that refusal. I do, therefore, so far, but so far only, modify my said will as to reduce that price 50 per cent.; in other words, one-half, at which he may take all the land above the ferry road that I inherited from my father, all that I bought of the late John Daniel, deceased, and of Tom Beaseley, Charles Beaseley, and others of that name and family, this last being the land that Gabriel Beaseley used to have in possession, and whereon Beverly Tucker lived, and which I hold by deed from him and his wife, of record in Charlotte county court.
“Witness my hand and seal —— day and year aforesaid.
“John Randolph, of Roanoke, (Seal.)