is given by the legislative authority, or from any other
source.

_Item._--The hundred shares, which I hold in the James River Company, I
have given, and now confirm in perpetuity, to and for the use and
benefit of Liberty Hall Academy, in the County of Rockbridge, in the
Commonwealth of Virginia.

_Item._--I release, exonerate, and discharge the estate of my deceased
brother, _Samuel Washington_, from the payment of the money which is due
to me for the land I sold to _Philip Pendleton_ (lying in the county of
Berkeley), who assigned the same to him, the said _Samuel_, who by
agreement was to pay me therefor. And whereas, by some contract (the
purport of which was never communicated to me) between the said _Samuel_
and his son, _Thornton Washington_, the latter became possessed of the
aforesaid land, without any conveyance having passed from me, either to
the said _Pendleton_, the said _Samuel_, or the said _Thornton_, and
without any consideration having been made, by which neglect neither the
legal nor equitable title has been alienated; it rests therefore with me
to declare my intentions concerning the premises; and these are, to give
and bequeath the said land to whomsoever the said _Thornton Washington_
(who is also dead) devised the same, or to his heirs for ever, if he
died intestate; exonerating the estate of the said _Thornton_, equally
with that of the said _Samuel_, from payment of the purchase money,
which, with interest, agreeably to the original contract with the said
_Pendleton_, would amount to more than a thousand pounds. And whereas
two other sons of my said deceased brother _Samuel_, namely, _George
Steptoe Washington_ and _Lawrence Augustine Washington_, were, by the
decease of those to whose care they were committed, brought under my
protection, and, in consequence, have occasioned advances on my part,
for their education at college and other schools, for their board,
clothing, and other incidental expenses, to the amount of near five
thousand dollars, over and above the sums furnished by their estate,
which sum it may be inconvenient for them or their father's estate to
refund; I do for these reasons acquit them and the said estate from the
payment thereof, my intention being, that all accounts between them and
me, and their father's estate and me, shall stand balanced.

_Item._--The balance due to me from the estate of _Bartholomew
Dandridge_, deceased (my wife's brother), and which amounted on