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Signed, Sealed, published and declared, by the above nnmed John B. Toulme as, and for, his last 7/ill and Testanent, in our presence; and at his request, and in his presence, and in the presence of each other, have subscribed our names as witnesses thereunto.
In the City of Shieldsborough on the Fourth <. day of August A D (I860} Eighteen Hundred &
Sixty
(Signed) J.C. Monet
John G. Golly N. Monet
It is my request, that should there be no funds sufficient to equalize the shares between my heirs, that they reemburse to each other out of their shares the amount necessary to make all the shares perfectly equal in value.
August 4th 1860 (signed) J B Toulme*
I	would also recommend to my executors, if they do not sell the Mill at Wolf River immediately, that they obtain the agreement of all the co-heirs, and iceep the same at work, occupying thereon the negroes belonging to it, and work up the logs as far as they can.
August 4th, 1860 Signed J. B. Toulne?
The-St&teooC1Mississippi )	In the Court of Probates of Hancock County
Hancock County ss	)	aforesaid at the October term A.D. 1860
there of
In the matter	of	an instrument	of writing	)
purporting to	be	the last Will	& testament	)
of.John B Toulme	deed produced	in said court)
for Probate	) Be it remembered, that
a term of the Court of Probates of Hancock County State of Mississippi, held at the Court house of said County, in the town of Gainesville on the Fourth Monday in October AD 1860 Personally appeared in open Court Julius C. Monet, Napoleon Monet and John (?? Colly the subscribing witnesses to the instrument in writing purporting to be the last Will and Testament of John B. Toulme? deceased late of said county, bearing date the Fourth day of August AD 1860 who having been first duly sworn on their respective oaths do say: That the said John B Toulme signed his name to the nine pages composing said instrument to the Ne vdnitue written in the margin, in their presence; and that he signed, sealed, the whole instrument on the Tenth page nnd published and declared said instrument as his last Will and Testament, in the presence of these deponents on the day of the date thereof; tlmt s^id mestator was then of sound disposing mind and memory and more than Twenty jsne years of age; That these deponents subscribed said instrument as witnesses thereto at the instance and request and in the presence of snid Testator, and also in the presence of each other, on	the	day	and	year	aforesaid.
Sworn to and subscribed in open Court)	Signed	J.C.	Monet
This' 22nd day of October A D 1860	)	John	G Colly
(Signed)	D.W.	Johnston	)	IT.	Monet
*	Clerk	)
Examined approved and ordered to be recorded (Signed)	J	1	VJinningham
Judge Trobote