CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Inventory of the Estate of JOHN DAY, deceased Personal property includes: Gray horse, black mare, two colts, two cows and one calf, 46 head of hogs note on Caswell Day for $16.40; set of smith tools, rifle gun, 30 bushels of wheat, one oat stack, clock, man’s saddle, side saddle, patent plough, two shovel plows, two pair of gears, two axes, three beds and furniture, four pots, three bakers, two tables, cupboard, seven chairs, loom, wheel, four still tubs, three casks, two hoes, mattock, handsaw, two augurs, crosscut saw, drawing knife, spade, fire shovel, two chests, trunk, two sets of cups and saucers, set of knives and forks, two sets of plates, three dishes, cloth coat

Year’s Support for SARAH DAY, Widow of JOHN DAY, deceased Two cows, one calf, 600 weight of pork or the hogs that will make it 300 bushels of corn All the wheat that she now has on the place $25.00 to buy her sugar and coffee, salt

Given under our hands and seals this 5th day of October 1854.

Isaac Thomas, Comm. Jesse (X) Carr, Comm. James Carr, Comm.

Sale of the Estate of JOHN DAY, deceased Property sold was: Patent plough $2.00; spade $.55; pot $1.00; pot $1.00; pot $1.02 ½; oven and lid $5.51; cooper’s tools $.62 ½; hand saw and drawing knife $1.25; crosscut saw $4.17 ½; man’s saddle $.50; three casks $.25; gun $10.20; lot smith tools $15.56 ½; grindstone $.53; two sows and pigs $8.10; 10 hogs $30.40; ten hogs $14.00; 12 hogs $12.50; bed and furniture $20.50; horse $78.00; colt $22.00; colt $25.00; three still tubs $1.50; clock $.25; cloth coat $12.15; trunk $1.00; cutting knife and box $.75

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $266.05 ½.