Claiborne County, Tennessee
Wills & Estates

Aquilla Farmer

CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Inventory of the Notes and Due Bills Belonging to the Estate of AQUILLA FARMER, deceased Routh Bundren note $8.50 doubtful James Greenlee $5.10 doubtful J. W. Parrott $1.45 James C. Harrell $1.59 R. P. Waller & Levin Waller $50.00 James Jones $1.33 Ambrose Johnson $8.00 Henry Williams $10.00 William Latham $75.00 William Latham $100.00 Henry Williams $.15

Cash on hand $224.52 ½

Sale of the Estate of AQUILLA FARMER, deceased Buyers were: Henry Jennings – bee stand $2.95; two sides bacon 58 lbs $5.95; mattock $1.37

Abednego Farmer – bee stand $2.95; cart and bed $21.20; log chain $2.70; pair stretchers $1.00; lot of augurs $2.00

William Venable – basket $.95

Henry Hipshear – bee stand $3.05; bee stand and two gums $1.80; bee stand $.65; bee stand $2.95; shoemaker tools and hackle $.76; ten 1st choice hogs $33.06; field of corn $310.00; large keg $.85

John E. Waller – pair gears $1.55; lot of ploughs $2.00; froe $.46; rake, sneed and blade $.16; two salt tubs, basket and ½ bushel $.21; pair sheep shears and bottles $.60; table $1.80; hand saw $1.30; ten 2nd choice hogs $28.90; plough and stock $1.35

William Johnson – three sides of bacon 63 lbs $6.30

James S. Greenlee – plough, single tree and stock $1.85; weeding hoe $.79; weeding hoe $.46; scythe and cradle $1.25; red steer $8.40; brindle steer $6.05; yearling $4.63

William Taylor – cutting knife and box $2.00

Brice Asberry – lot broom corn $.46

Mrs. Emeline Farmer – flax wheel $.10; reel $.05; two chairs $.10; two baskets and table $.10; chest $.10; cupboard $.25; furniture in cupboard $.10; clock $.15; lot books and glass $.05; carpet $.25; jug $.10; five sheep $.50

Zach Reddick – three chairs $.20

David Hopson – two bedsteads $1.70

John Chandler – grindstone $.75

L. L. Harrell – gig $.20; gig $.43; four sheep $4.10; man’s saddle $7.00; three whetstones $.33

Henry Williams – lot bridles $.46

Hamilton Evans – oat stack $6.25

Redman Harrell – stack of oats $6.35; two sheep $2.00; barrel $.65

Green Bundren – stack of rye $3.60; sorrel horse $106.00

William Smith – yoke of oxen $47.50

Perry Collins – mule colt $60.00

William R. Hays – 16 3rd choice hogs $32.32; 12 4th choice hogs $12.60

Amount of sales of the personalities $756.81 Amount of notes and due bills $485.64 ½ Amount of cash for property sold $16.52

True account of the sale of the estate that was held on the 23rd day of September 1854.