CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian of Minor Heirs of JOHN EVANS, JR., deceased Amount of former settlement $247.71 ¾ Interest upon the above amount $14.86 ¼ Rents of the orphans land for the year 1847 $16.25 Paid Clerk for making and recording this settlement $1.50 Paid Guardian for his trouble and attention to the estate $1.00

Leaves a balance of $276.35 remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1848. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian of Minor Heirs of JOHN EVANS, deceased Amount of former settlement on the 17th July 1848 $278.83 Interest on the above $16.72 Rent of the orphans land 10 barrels of corn $10.00 Wheat received 3 bushels $2.25 Amount paid by Guardian: Paid Clerk’s fee for making and recording this settlement $1.50 Paid Guardian for his trouble and attention to the business of the minors $1.50 Paid Clerk’s fee for renewing guardian bond $.75

Leaves a balance of $304.05 remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1849. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian to the minor heirs of JOHN EVANS, JR., deceased Amount of former settlement with interest $322.29 ¼ Rent corn for the year 1849 sold for cash $10.00 Paid clerk’s fee for making and recording this settlement $1.50 Paid Guardian charges for his trouble $1.00

Leaves a balance of $329.79 remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1850. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian of minor heirs of JOHN EVANS, JR., deceased Amount of former settlement with interest $359.57 Amount of rents received $10.50 Paid Clerk’s fee for renewing bond $.75; and making and recording settlement $1.50 Paid taxes for the year 1850 $.40 Paid Guardian charges for trouble $2.50

Leaves a balance of $354.92 ¾ remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1851. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian to Minor Heirs of JOHN EVANS, deceased Amount of former settlement with interest $376.21 Cash received for rent of corn that was raised on the lands of the orphans $16.25 Amount received from estate of Mary Evans, grandmother of minor orphan $11.16 Paid taxes on the land for year 1851 $2.81 Paid guardian for his trouble in attending to the business $2.50 Paid clerk’s fee for making and recording the settlement $1.31

Leaves a balance of $396.82 remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1852.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with JESSE EVANS, Guardian of Minor Heirs of JOHN EVANS, deceased Amount of former settlement with interest $420.63 Amount received fro rents for the year 1852 $16.00 Paid clerk’s fee for renewing bond and making this settlement $2.25 Paid guardian charges for his trouble $2.50

Leaves a balance of $431.88 remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 17th day of July 1853. Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with HAMILTON EVANS, Guardian of W. W. EVANS Amount of former settlement with interest $232.71 ½ Paid clerk’s fee for making and recording this settlement $1.50

Leaves a balance of $231.21 ½ remaining in the hands of the Guardian, this 3rd day of August 1851.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk

Settlement with HAMILTON EVANS, Guardian to W. W. EVANS Amount of former settlement with interest $245.08 ½ Paid clerk’s fee for making and recording this settlement $1.50 Paid account $18.48 Paid George Beel’s receipt $3.25

This is a final settlement of the guardianship of William W. Evans, now being twenty-one years of age, and I find in the hands of the guardian, the sum of $221.85 ¾, this 9th day of August 1853.