CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Year’s Support for JANE BRITTAIN, Widow of LEVI BRITTAIN, deceased Nine barrels of salt, clock, kettle and skillet, four pair pot hooks, damaged oven and lid, two churns, three baskets, two buckets and five pails, half bushel, two bushels of old corn, 115 bushels of corn in the several fields, three chopping axes, five old weeding hoes, log chain, pair horse gears, two mattocks, two grubbing hoes, two fire shovels, froe, augur, drawing knife, two pot trammels, set dog irons, two smoothing irons, lot of leather, sitting chair, two lbs coffee, 2 lbs pepper, nine yards bed ticking, lot spun thread, one oz indigo, 32 yards domestic, ten hanks spun yarn, lot flax thread, two bottles, man’s saddle, pan, pinchers, horse phlegm, razor, 80 bushels of oats in two stacks, lot of old iron scraps, hat, two single trees, dozen candles, keg

Given under our hands and seals this 1st day of December 1851.

James Chick, Comm. Peter Marcum, Comm. John Brown, Comm.

Inventory of the Estate of LEVI BRITTAIN, deceased Personal property includes: One still and worm, twelve still tubs, six whiskey barrels, one keg, one tub, one falling leaf table, one salt barrel

Given under my hand and seal this 14th day of February 1852.

Peter Hazlewood, Administrator

Sale of the Estate of LEVI BRITTAIN, deceased Buyers were: Jacob Cormack – still and worm, two tubs, two whiskey barrels $8.00

Jane Brittain – falling leaf table $5.00

David Redmond – two whiskey barrels $1.95

B. F. Cloud – seven still tubs, two whiskey barrels $3.75

Abraham Cormack – two still tubs, small keg $1.50

Armstrong Campbell – small tub $.45

William Hale – crout tub $.25

William Cormack – salt barrel $.10

Note on Nelson McWilliams for 75 pounds or iron Note on John Cloud $1.50 Account against Elisha Mustard $7.13 ½ Abner Hatfield’s receipt for the collection of a note on Elisha Mustard $3.30

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $21.00, held this 15th day of December 1851. Peter Hazlewood, Administrator

Inventory of the Estate of LEVI BRITTON, deceased Personal property includes: Still and worm, 12 still tubs, six whiskey barrels, one keg, one crout tub, falling leaf table, one salt barrel

Sale of the Estate of LEVI BRITTAIN, deceased Buyers were: Jacob Carmack – still and worm, two still tubs, two whisky barrels $8.10

Jane Brittain – falling leaf table $5.00

B. F. Cloud – seven still tubs and two whisky barrels $3.75 David Redmond – two whiskey barrels $1.95

Abraham Carmack – two still tubs, small keg $1.50

Armstrong Campbell – still tub $.45

William Hall – crout tub $.25

William Carmack – salt barrel $.10

Notes and Accounts: Note on Nelson MacWilliams – 75 lbs of iron Note on John Cloud $1.50 Account against Elisha Mustard $7.12 ½ Receipt on Abner Hatfield $3.30

Peter Hazlewood, Administrator

Settlement with PETER HAZLEWOOD, Administrator of the Estate of LEVI BRITTON, deceased Amount of inventory and account of sale $26.17 Paid J. H. S. Morrison proven account $9.47 Paid H. C. Wierman account $2.50 Paid Thomas Bales account $3.30 Paid clerk’s fee $5.50

Leaves a balance of $5.40 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 14th day of November 1854.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk