CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Inventory of the Notes and Accounts Belonging to the Estate of JOSEPH HAMILTON, deceased Cash in gold and silver $149.84; in Tennessee money $3.00

Notes: Pryor J. Munday $65.00 Thomas J. Brown $18.25 George W. Posey $25.00 Harrison Ramsey $5.00 William Welch $3.50 William Nash $18.00 H. C. Wireman $178.20 Daniel Littrell $178.20 John Wilson $6.50 J. P. Johnson $20.00 Aaron Cox - 40 lbs iron Samuel Gibson $8.50 Wesley Chittum $19.40 Nancy Dickinson $9.00 Jesse Eades $8.00 Robert Crockett $12.50 George W. Sells $2.50 A. R. Dickinson $6.00 William Murphey $6.00 P. Murphey $25.00 J. B. Smith $5.00 William Baldridge $5.00 Nelson McWilliams $7.50 David Taylor $3.0 Emanuel Hussey $5.00 Joshua Hamilton $30.00 William Turner $5.00 John Freeman $3.50 Solomon Baker $10.00 Henry Baker $20.00 James Barnes $8.90 N. J. Murphey $200.00 E. D. Murphey $200.00 Jefferson Craig $63.00 Isaac Walton $80.00 Henry Stewart $50.00 John Mealor $5.00 Thomas Martin $5.00 Joseph Denny $5.00 Caleb Baker $11.00 William J. Marcey $11.00 William Johnson $71.50 George W. Dinkins $7.00 Joseph Ferrell $15.00 James B. Waller $7.50 William McBee $1.00 Arnold Little $3.88 James J. Norvell $10.00 Randal Beaty $4.00 ½ John Kibert $2.35 Elijah L. Ford $56.00 Benjamin Salliers $1.25

Sale of the Estate of JOSEPH HAMILTON, deceased Buyers were: Joseph P. Johnson – wagon $47.00; gun $6.12 ½; book $.25; book $.06 ¼; book $.25; steer $7.63; horse $105.00; steer $7.88; calf $5.00; breast birth $.40; oat stack, ½ of the patch of Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes, and cabbage, all together $1.00

Martin B. Johnson – log chain $2.00; adze $.50; saw $1.37 ½; crosscut saw $2.05; five plows $1.85; plow mold and other articles $1.15; single tree $.20; still cock $.12 ½; pair gears $2.00; piece leather $4.90; book $.50; book $.25; book $.35; stuff $.25; pair spurs $.38; plow $1.00; six hogs $21.00; kettle $.37 ½; lot of wool $4.92; set plates $.80; set cups and saucers $.12 ½; two bowls and pitcher $.52; jar of medicine $1.02; sheet $.32; towel $.51; set cups and saucers $.37 ½; butter plate and teaspoons $.17

Perry Hurst – pair of scales $.26; vial of quicksilver $.26

John M. Woods – vial of aquafortis $.15

Thomas Large – mug $.15

John Slatton – three sickles $.75; two augurs and chisel $.65; book $.12 ½; bed $5.00; blanket $1.05; two pair tooth drawers $.25; two instruments $.05; lot medicine $.15; box vials $.05; pair tooth drawers $.05; smoothing iron $.33

James Munday – froe $.45; hoe and mattock $.52 ½; hoe and shovel $.35; medical book $.79; three books $.75; medical mortar $.10; two books $.50; horse $36.00; box $1.05; pot $.67; pair fire dogs $2.00; pair steelyards $1.00; bed $7.79; two bed blankets $1.50; blanket $1.25; blanket $1.36; blanket $1.47; blanket $1.50; sheet $.50; three piggins $.17; loom $.50; set plates and dish $.70; set knives and forks $.40; two physical instruments $2.00; pair specks $1.00; lot medicine $1.00; lot medicine $1.09; scarifying knife $.13; two papers of tacks $.16; pocketbook $.25; single tree $.50; desk, axe $3.50; axe, $.10; cow $11.00; calf $2.00; two baskets $.27; sundry articles $1.45

Isaac Guinn – crowbar $1.31 ¼; wedge $.50; plow $.10

J. M. Patterson –pair chains and heel screws $2.05

William Johnson – two bridles $.90; table $10.50; bureau $16.02; heifer $4.25; lot of lard $3.87 ½; counterpane $.42; gun and shot pouch $10.75; hillside plow $2.90

Elias Ely – two bridles $.50; dun cow $12.35

Sarah Hamilton – shovel and tongs $.50; two books $.10; pair fire dogs $.50; clock $1.25; oven $.31 ¼; pair waffle irons $.40; pitcher $.25; bowl $.16; crout tub $.27; two tin trunks $.50; glass $.25; three plates and three dishes $.50; set tumblers $.25; set teaspoons $.32; three bottles $.25; cupboard $.50; pair saddlebags $.58; coffee mortar $.50; three plows, broad axe $.40; tub $.12 ½

Elzira Hamilton – side of leather $1.98; side of leather $2.05; box of salt $.12 ½; jar $1.06; jar $.75; bottle of camphor $.50

William Hamilton – hatchet $1.21; table and cloth $1.05; lot of medicine $.25; two bottles $.65; two pair lancets $.35; scythe and cradle $.50; brush $.15; three books $.30; two midlings of bacon $2.39 ¼

Joseph Southern – book $.50; two books $1.25; kettle $4.00; skillet and rack $1.00; watch $13.00; quilt $.30; lot of vials $1.00; pair specks $.06 ¼; lot of medicine $.06; lot of medicine $.02; syringe $.01; clock $3.25

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $485.64 ¾, this 24th day of August 1849. Isaac Miller, Administrator

Year’s Provisions to SARAH HAMILTON, Widow of JOSEPH HAMILTON, deceased 200 bushels of corn, 1000 lbs of hog meat 600 lbs coffee, 60 lbs sugar, 3 lbs tea, 3 lbs pepper, 3 lbs allspice, 1 lb ginger 7 bushels of salt, 100 lbs of beef All the poultry on the place, one good fat mutton All the lard that is in the trough, in the smokehouse at this time 100 dozen oats, 500 binds of fodder All the potatoes and cabbage and garden vegetables and turnips

Sale of the Estate of SARAH HAMILTON, deceased Buyers were: William Price – cow and calf $10.25; counterpane $.52

Jefferson Treece – yoke of oxen $30.25

John Hurst – quilt $.93; bed blanket $1.17; two heel screws $.10

James B. Smith – oxen $8.00

Thomas J. Johnson – cow and calf $9.75; little table and oil cloth $1.07

Joseph Chittum – set spoons $.60; pot and hooks $.42

A.B. Smith – three bottles and crock $.33 ½

William Johnson - bed and stead $14.00; coverlid $3.37 ½; coverlid $3.93; coverlid $1.12 ½; tablecloth $.64; tablecloth $.25; sheet $.25; two sheets $.25; pillow slip $.08; six plates $.40; set cups and saucers $1.31; six glass tumblers $.50; five glass tumblers $.55; candlestick $.25; sugar bowl $.25; two coffee pots $.26; three crocks $.29; three tin cups and pan $.33; umbrella $1.00; fish pan $.06 ½; flat iron $.50; five pails $.20; keg soap $1.12 ½; ladies saddle $2.25; oat stack

Martin B. Johnson - bed and stead $12.62 ½; quilt $1.12 ½; check reel $1.05; large Bible $1.00; big wheel $.95

William Hamilton - cow $9.00; blanket $1.50; blanket $1.50; blanket $2.00; blanket $2.00; quilt $2.50; table linen $1.00; coverlid $3.37 ½; coverlid $3.50; two dishes $.70; six plates $.60; teapot $.30; set coffee plates $.30; bowl $.12 ½; lot knives and forks $1.37 ½; pair fire dogs $1.50; two floor carpets $2.00; waffle iron $.55; kettle $.61; pair gears $1.88; two churns, three pails $.30; filly three years old $58.00; pair fire dogs $.50; tea kettle $1.00; pail $.12 ½

Jane Johnson – chair $.50; chair $.12 ½; two dishes $2.00; tin trunk $1.00; tea board $.26; oven $.55

Washington Powell – little wheel $1.12 ½; two chairs $.41; cream cup $.12 ½; tin trunk $.31 ¼; pitcher $.18 ¾; pair sheep shears $.18; little skillet $.06 ¼; sifter $.26; gridiron $.16; lot tools $2.55; pickling tub $.20; oven and hooks $1.00

John Slatton - two chairs $.30; half bushel $.25; ten head hogs $19.00

James Munday - looking glass $.30; pot rack $.90; mortar and pestle $.30; sack flour $.50; barrel $1.00; ½ cake of tallow $.12 ½; plow $1.50; saddle and sheepskin $4.12 ½; two kegs and stand $.37 ½; sundries $.01; 11 head sheep $12.12 ½; coffee mill $.12 ½; cupboard $.12 ½; tin pan $.06 ¼; pail $.01; table and two barrels $.25; bowl and candle mold $.21

M. B. Johnson – clock $3.00; cupboard $2.62 ½; shovel and tongs $2.00; barrel salt $2.17 ½; barrel soap $2.10; pail soap $.25; two soap troughs $.25; barrel $.15; pair lines $.07

Barton Ely – two buckets $.37 ½; frying pan $.50

Jesse Bruce – pot and hooks $1.00

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $229.80.

Isaac Miller, Administrator