CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Year’s Provisions to the Widow of J. M. BURCH, deceased $30.00 for wheat; for other vegetables $15.00 350 bushels of corn or money to buy it For coffee and sugar, pepper and spice $31.00 14 of the choice hogs, one heifer for a beef Eight bushels of salt, $12.00 worth of leather, all spun thread and flax undressed on hand 50 dozen of oats or money to buy them, 500 binds of fodder or money to buy it

James (X) Hodges, Comm. Samuel (X) Moore, Comm. Andrew (X) Davis, Comm.

Inventory of the Estate of JOHN W. BURCH, deceased Personal property includes: Cupboard, clock, looking glass, sickle, set of iron, three small shovel plows, two shovel plows, four mowing blades, turning plow, mold board and shears, handsaw, pair gear, table, desk, ½ set wagon boxes, 16 sheep, four horse wagon, two head of cattle, five head of horses, augur, chisel, 2200 shingles, 34 head of hogs, rifle gun and pouch, wheat fan, pole axe, pair wagon britching, two horse turning plow, ½ crosscut saw

Notes: Levi Goins $8.99 D. B. McVay and William C. Sharp $33.00 Note on William Dykes, Mathew Collins and Levi Goins $3.05 Note on Solomon Scaggs $6.50 Note on Philip Minton $2.00 Note on Solomon Scaggs and Spencer Owsley $5.00 Note on William Kirkpatrick for $15.00 Note on Obadiah Cardwell $6.00 Note on Wiley Phillips, N. H. Moore, and Thomas J. Johnson for $6.45 Note on Johnson Mayse $13.00 Note on Caswell McBee for $24.60 Note on R. B. Lane for $33.00 Note on William Beeler for $4.00 Note on George Fulps and Henry Runnolds for $.87 ½ Note on Allen Hurst and J. H. Parmer $40.93 Note on Thomas J. Johnson for $100.00 Note on Vincent Moyers $3.45 Note on Jefferson Treece $42.30 Note on Elihu E. Jones for 40 lbs iron Note on Christopher Gose $4.00 Note on Charles Cupp $2.00

Wiley Sanders, Administrator

Sale of the Estate of JOHN M. BURCH, deceased Buyers were: Celia Burch – cupboard $2.00; clock $1.00; looking glass $.25; pair dog irons $.25; small table $.05; 16 sheep $1.00; bay mare $5.00; sorrel colt $2.00; 2200 shingles $.10; rifle gun and pouch $.50; wheat fan $1.00; pole axe $.12 ½; pair wagon britching $.10; big turning plow $2.05

Bradford Davis – ½ crosscut saw $1.50

George Hall – sorrel filly $47.15

Harmon Hurst – sorrel mare $42.00

John Keck – sickle $.50

William Keck – lot old irons $.50; three small shovel plows $.22; pair haimes and chains $.81

David Owsley – table and desk $1.25

Hampton Burchfield – ½ set wagon boxes $.45; cow $11.62 ½

G. B. Cloud – two shovel plows $.85

Nelson McCrary – two mowing blades $.35; hand saw $1.02

William Grimes – mowing blade $1.00

John M. England – turning plow $2.13 ½; mold board and shear $.75; large augur $.52; five 1st choice hogs $16.93 ½

William Dyke – five 2nd choice hogs $9.98; five 3rd choice hogs $11.20

Nathan Moore – remainder of hogs $40.08

D. B. Sweet – chisel $.40

Samuel Moore – plough $.4

William H. Mayse – four horse wagon $36.50

Daniel McVay – mowing blade $.12 ½; bull $12.12 ¾

True account of the sale of the estate that was held on the 22nd day of November 1853.

Wiley Sanders, Administrator

Inventory of the Estate of JOHN M. BURCH, deceased Additional property includes: William Kincaid account $18.50 William S. H. McKee account $.33 Washington Lewis account $18.55 Solomon Fulps account $3.83 George Painter account $4.10 Henry Runels account $1.55 Andrew Davis account $4.55 G. B. Cloud account $14.85 Elijah Goins, doubtful and in dispute $33.97

Wiley Sanders, Administrator