CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Inventory of the Estate of ANDREW McCLARY, deceased Notes: William Lawson, Sr. $19.50 John Ritchie $12.97 A. McAmis $6.10 Thomas J. Johnson $3.50 John Bray $10.00 James Poe $5.00 George Hatfield $5.00 George Walker $12.00 David Huse $14.50 William Davenport $10.00 William Clause $3.95 Jesse Ward $3.37 ½ Elias King $7.35 Benjamin Jones $5.60 D. B. McVay $8.00 Lewis Day $5.50 James J. Belvin $5.50 William Jones $20.48 Morris P. Rowlett $2.00 A. A. Harris $6.10 Cooper Bray $2.00 William Venoy $20.50 William Burch $5.00 Neil McNeil, Jr. $35.00 Jeremiah Bowman $85.00 James R. Jennings $7.88 Levi Parks $10.72 ½

Bartley Brooks in work at two shillings per day Parmer Suffrage for 60 bushels of corn Abel Edwards for 60 gallons of brandy Obligation on Barnwell Duley for six days’ work $1.25

Sale of the Estate of ANDREW McCLARY, deceased Buyers were: Joseph Bullard – crowbar $1.50; plow and clevis $.37 ½; pair of shoes $.26

William Lanham – reap hook $.26; kettle $2.26

Isham Croxdale – lot of single trees $1.00; three bushels of salt $2.00

Alexander S. McClary – chains and hames $1.25; single tree and clevis $.87 ½; clevis and coulter $.40; gun $2.25; cooper mortar $.35; glass and window towel $1.05; lot cloths $1.25; 20 geese and ducks $6.00; lot of chickens and turkeys $.50

William H. Jennings – pair horse hobbles $1.37 ½

Mordecai Cunningham – skillet and pot rack $1.37 ½; pair stretchers $.93 ¾; lot of hames $.25; double and single trees $2.72 ½; set andirons $1.50

John Ritchie – oven and lid $1.93 ¼; jug $.31 ½

Littleton Mize – oven and lid and skillet $1.18 ¼; bell $.28; tub $1.03 ½; bedstead $1.00; two trunks $1.05

Jacob J. Parks – axe $1.68; stone drill $1.00; side saddle $2.00; tub and bucket $1.00; three chairs $1.00; remnant of plunder $.62 ½

William Kesterson – two chisels $.50; lot of old irons and old bucket $1.67 ½

Thomas R. Coleman – oven and lid $1.00; stretchers, single trees $2.00; set of weight and scales $1.12 ½

Stokely R. Lanham – coulter $.50 ½; froe $.38 ¼

L. L. Herrell – pair steelyards $1.12 ½

David Fletcher – pot $2.20; hand saw $.90

Enoch Moore – pair of chains $3.12 ½

Solomon Dobkins – lot of hames and set of harness $4.62 ½; box $.25; lot of books $.39; lot of lumber $1.62

John H. Brooks – lot hoes and chest $1.77; box and writing desk $1.41

John Fugate – lot of harness and breeching $.75

Preston Brooks – hoe and iron wedge, bell $1.30

Harvey Russell – box and chains $1.00; lot of old irons $1.06 ¼; half bushel and bacon $.75

John Hill – box and gums $.71; plane $.68; lot of plunder $1.00; cupboard $.12 ½; lot of nails $.36 ¼; lot of single trees $.56 ¼; lot of plank $3.08 ½; lot of tools $.75; knife box and lantern $.25

James Spradling – lot of chairs $.40

George Runyons – crosscut saw and chair $3.15

Pryor Adams – drill and grindstone $2.32

Morris P. Rowlett – drill $.75

John C. Dodson – bedstead $.46

Harvey Mize – flax wheel $1.37 ½

Samuel Wilson – side of leather and lock $2.22

Elijah Wilson – two locks $.80; lot of bedclothes $8.50; bed and furniture $25.06 ¼

Levi Parks – cow and lot of old wagon wheels $15.80

Louisa Parks – kettle $2.60

Jacob Walker – chair $.75

Nathan Mize – cow and four chairs $14.70

Harriet Vanoy – cow $3.00

Andrew W. Herrell – bureau $2.50

William Campbell – wagon bed $3.06 ¼; axe $1.06; lot tubs $.40; churn and piggin $.31

Henry Barker – calf $2.26

John McNeil, Jr. – lot corn $13.36

Eldridge Lanham – rifle gun $6.00

Jacob Dobkins – feather bed $3.75

John Collinsworth – lot flax $.12 ½

Settlement with WILLIAM FUGATE, Administrator of the Estate of ANDREW McCLARY, deceased Amount of the inventory $334.49 Amount of sales of the personal property $183.75 Amount of the sale of land sold $75.00 Amount collected off John & George McNeil $83.37 Amount received for property sold $50.77 Paid Isaac Hatfield note $5.00 Paid G. A. Walker note $12.00 Paid D. Hughs note $14.50 Paid Jesse Ward note $3.37 Paid Elias King note $7.30 Paid Benjamin Jones note $3.66 Paid D. B. McVay note $8.00 Paid Lewis Day note $5.50 Paid William Jones note $20.48 Paid two judgments before J. L. M. Dickinson $17.50 Paid note on Cooper Bray $2.00 Paid note on William Vannoy $20.50 Paid note on William Burch $5.00 Paid note on Neil McNeil, Jr. $35.00 Paid note on Levi Parks $10.12 ½ Paid note on Jeremiah Bowman $85.00 Paid judgment on James R. Jennings $7.88 Paid note returned on James Poe $10.00 Paid receipt of D. Fletcher $2.50 Paid receipt of Hugh Graham $4.80 Paid tax receipt $.52 Paid L. L. Harrell receipt $1.50 Paid W. R. Evans, attorney $10.00 Paid clerk’s fee $5.50 Paid Administrator for his trouble and expenses $35.00 Deduction on Lawson note $4.89 W. R. Evans’ other receipt $20.00 Paid further clerk’s fees $9.00

Settlement was sworn to this 10th day of February 1853.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Distributive Shares of the Estate of ANDREW McCLARY, deceased Amount of assets in Administrators hands for distribution $374.00 Amount of debts against the estate $799.00, which will pay .46 1/3 on the dollar John Riley $.93 C. Bales $17.06 William McCullough $25.34 P. Marcum $1.36 S. B. Rowlett $4.83 A. A. McAmis $.58 Elizabeth Brooks $12.46 J. P. Evans $18.70 William Campbell $51.75 William Bullard $33.63 M. T. Brown $32.34 J. Shultz $35.60 William Houston $70.06 J. H. Evans $6.57 Harriet Vannoy $14.03 A. & M. Buchanan $46.42 Graham & Neil $2.20