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Children as Tenants in Common

Item. I give and devise unto my said wife, all that my said messuage or tenement, with the appurtenances, situate, etc., with the lands and hereditaments thereunto belonging, and the rents, issues, and profits thereof, for and during the term of her natural life; and from and after the decease of my said wife, I give and bequeath the said messuage or tenement, lands, and hereditaments, unto such child or children, as I shall leave or have living at the time of my decease, and to their heirs and assigns forever, as tenants in common, and if I shall have no such child or children, etc., then I give and devise, etc., which said legacy given to my said wife as aforesaid, I hereby declare is intended to be, and is so given to her, in full satisfaction and recompense of, and for her dower and thirds, which she may, or can in any wise claim or demand out of my estate.

Item. I give and devise all the rest and residue of my estate, both real and personal (not hereinbefore by me given and bequeathed), unto, etc. sum of