CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Inventory of the Estate of J. H. CHAPMAN, deceased Personal property includes: Cherry table, wash stand, small table, clock, two bedsteads, feather bed, two straw beds, two bed blankets, two cotton sheets, three coverlids, two counterpanes, quilt, comfort, four pillows, two bolsters, chair, china press, six glass tumblers, six teacups and saucers, 12 plates, two pitchers, sugar bowl, cream pitcher, two dishes, set knives and forks, eight teaspoons, six tea and tablespoons, looking glass, child’s crib, three men’s saddles unfinished, pine table, two tin pans, two tin buckets, coffee pot, three crocks, oven and baker, tea kettle, coffee mill, pair andirons, two flat irons, stone churn, four old barrels, fat stand, bread tray, sifter, small keg, lot of plank, colt, milk cow, three shirts, jeans, cloth dress coat, two bridle bits, small piggin, 25 dozen oats, sack flour, sack meal, waffle iron, fire shovel, pair hooks, pair candle molds, remnant tow linen, 2 or 3 tow sacks, loom, part set saddle tools, three saddle stools, pair clamps, large kettle, pair hooks, bridle, three deer skins, grindstone, six pair saddle skirts, girth, four saddle trees, three yds straining web, three pair pants, two old hats, money on hand $14.50

Cherry table, two bedsteads, two counterpanes, comfort, set knives and forks, oven and baker, coffee mill, milk cow, 25 dozen oats, and $14.50 money on hand were laid off for the widow’s use, this 5th day of October 1847.

List of Accounts: George W. Rose $9.48 Martin Birchfield $25.00 Elisha Nunn (desperate) $.85 Alfred Fletcher (doubtful ) $.25 Daniel Dickinson $.37 ½ T. L. W. Sawyers $2.62 John Woods $3.66 2/3 T. D. Knight $.75 M. Cole $14.00 W. R. Evans $1.75 David Fullington $9.59 Dr. M. Carriger $.50 Littleton Brooks (desperate) $.50 Thomas Johnson $18.00 John Hall $8.56 John Bartlett $1.84 John McVealance $4.00 George W. Lacey (unknown) $3.97 ½ Hamilton Evans $32.00 Nathaniel H. Moore $8.55 Benjamin Sewell $53.00 A. A. McAmis $1.00 R. E. Crockett $80.00 John Mathis $.75 Israel Huddleston $1.75 P. J. Parrott (desperate) $1.75 Alexander Fullington $1.75 Samuel Moore $1.75 William W. Greer $22.25 William Kincaid $57.87 ½ Andy Lynch $13.00 N. A. Evans $1.00 James H. Evans $1.25 Peter Marcum $18.37 ½ William Epps $2.00 Elisha E. Hall $8.15 A. C. Hansard $3.17 ½

List of Notes: J. Vermilion (trade) $25.00 H. Johnson $6.35 E. Hall $6.00 David Rosenbaum $19.85 D. McVey $8.50 M. Housholder $50.00 S. Gibson $15.00 William B. Day $22.00 T. J. Guthrie $22.00 J. A. Carroll $5.50 Sarah Lanham $1.25 William Cox $.30 John Bray $1.58 ¼ P. Sullivan $2.00 James Rogers $99.00 Lucy Wallen $2.97 Witness Tickets: James B. Smith vs William McHenry $12.26; $.75 Elisha B. Wall and James B. Smith vs William McHenry $13.50, $4.76; $3.00 E. Wallen vs William McHenry $7.50; $4.50; $1.87 ½; $.75

Sale of the Estate of J. H. CHAPMAN, deceased Buyers were: Hugh Houston – deer skin $.20; deer skin $.25

D. Fullington – deerskin $.75; deerskin $.85; deerskin $.25; pair two linen $.25; double girth $.55; saddle tree $1.50; saddle and skirt $1.00; saddle and skirt $1.00; saddle and skirt $.75; bedstead, straw bed $6.00; scraps of leather $1.12 ½; four stirrups $.28; wash stand and bag hair $1.37 ½; chair $.12 ½; two black bottles $.06; 280 feet plank $1.75

Mrs. Chapman – clock $5.12 ½; press and bookcase $12.25; kitchen table $.62 ½; stone jar $.25; four barrels $.25; tea kettle $.75; box clothing $.25; pair fire irons $.12 ½; sad iron $.25

J. White – bed and furniture $20.25

N. Roberts – clam $.22

John Easley – three stools $.40; five plates $.25; two dishes $.50; small table $.56 ¾

William Marcum – looking glass $.15; pair hinges $.25

B. Fuller – tin bucket $.15; coffee pot $.18; pitcher $.15; 510 feet plank $5.25

William Fugate – saddle $6.36

S. J. Barnard – saddle quilt seat $10.06 ¼

J. Hamilton – saddle plain $6.50

M. Burchfield – set cups and saucers $.30; large pot $2.07

General Knight – cot $.50; chair $.25

J. Burchfield – grindstone $.87

Accounts Belonging to the Estate of J. H. CHAPMAN, deceased John Furgerson $3.94 ¾ Isaac Miller $2.50 John Daniel $10.75 David Fullington $3.50 Wat Hamilton $1.16 Major Wallis $.46 Travis Brooks $1.31 Alexander Fullington $6.00 Woodson Willis $4.81 James Deaton $11.41 William Baltrip $.68 ¾ William Price $1.37 ½ John Furgerson $1.50 Isaac Townsley $.55 Thomas Evans $.53 James Eastridge $.75 Isaac Eastridge $3.12 ½ Luke Parker $1.17 James A. Hamilton $4.33 Thomas Young $3.00 William Roark $.68 ¾ James Carroll $1.25 David Fullington $10.50 David Guinn $11.80 Hiram Messer $8.31 Joab Cook $9.87 Rice Whitaker $.75 James McVey $1.00 Hiram Messer $60.08 William Condray $2.72 Thomas Hardy $.94 Lawson Eastridge $.18 ¾ Thomas Fryor $.25 James Hamilton $4.61 Henderson Jennings $1.00 Almarion Johnson $3.62 Valentine Minton $1.92 David Fullington $17.50 Sally Lanham $.62 ½ A. Johnson $2.75 Joseph Lambert $1.75 Thomas Fryar $2.83 Joseph Whitaker $2.00 Isaac Eastridge $.13 William Price $1.12 ½ Daniel McVey $.75 Alexander Flemmings $2.25 Elijah Evans $3.00

The above is all of the effects of the estate of J. H. Chapman, deceased, that have come to my hands, knowledge or possession or into the hands of any other person for me as Administrator of the estate of said Chapman, this the 20th of October 1847.

A. McAmis, Administrator