CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Inventory of the Estate of RICHARD HARPER, deceased Personal property includes: One mare, milk cow and calf, two bedsteads, two feather beds, straw tick, two sheets, two counterpanes, coverlid, five quilts, two pillows, table, cupboard, chest, set of plates, two glasses, three teacups and saucers, salt cellar, sugar dish dictionary, candlestick, two bottles, pair fire dogs, pot rack, shovel, pair fire dogs, skillet and lid, pot, pair pot hooks, six chairs, water bucket, tin bucket, meal sifter, kettle, lot of knives and forks, two pewter dishes, two wash bowls, saddle bags, fat stand, two sides and shoulder of bacon, keg of salt, large barrel, two small tubs, wash tub, churn, hand saw, iron wedge, two pair of wagon gears, two single trees, two hammers, mattock, two axes, two sprouting hoes, coffee pot, saddle and bridle, seven fowls, curry comb, some tobacco, shovel, half bushel, basket, small piece of upper leather, some sole leather, iron ladle

Notes: Fanny Breeding, Patterson Breeding, Barton Clapp $75.00 John McNeil $35.00 William Venable $100.00 William Whited $10.63 John Kelley $5.00 John Vance $3.00 Pryor Vance $1.25 William Minton $5.00 Jacob Minton $39.00 Henry Reynolds $2.00 Joseph Johnson $2.05 Neoma Lynch $2.75 William Minton $7.00 William Daugherty $9.42 John Harper $8.00 Reuben Harper $5.75 Reuben Harper $77.00 Drewry Laffoon $5.00

True account of the property that has come to my hands this 13th day of June 1851.

Patterson Breeding, Administrator

Sale of the Estate of RICHARD HARPER, deceased Buyers were: Fanny Breeding – bedstead $.10; bedstead $.12 ½; feather bed, sheet and pillow $3.50; feather bed, sheet and pillow $5.50;; straw tick $.05; counterpane $.30; coverlid $1.50; bed quilt $.40; bed quilt $.35; bed quilt $.17; bed quilt $.40; table $.75; chest $1.50; wash bowl $.40; bottle $.12; pair dig irons $.05; trammel $.70; fire shovel $.35; skillet and lid $.45; pot and pot hooks $1.05; three chairs $.70; cup $.05; three pewter dishes $1.10; pair saddle bags $.25; keg soap and kettle $.17; pickling tub $.25; wash tub $.20; keg $.10; churn $.10; two pair gears $2.30; coffee pot and ladle $.12 ½; basket $.05; seven fowls $.25; piece upper leather $.15; pair sole leather $.40; mare $16.00; cow and calf $15.00

Henley Hurst – cups and saucers $.05; bottle $.05; curry comb $.05; half bushel $.01

William Hurst – sugar dish $.10

William Laffoon – counterpane $.51; bed quilt $.40; salt cellar and pepper box $.05; cream jug and other utensils $.05; fire tongs $.37 ½; wash pan $.05; keg of salt and keg $.63; two tubs $.04

Drewry Laffoon – iron wedge and hammer $.37 ½; sprouting hoe $.25

Robert Herrell – two glasses $.11; three chairs $.26 ½; bucket $.05; two razors, knives and forks $.11; two single trees $.51; mattock $.05; two axes $.05

William Nunn – cupboard $.63; set plates $.31; meal sifter $.56

Thomas Whited – dictionary $.10; 41 lbs bacon $4.80; saddle and blanket $.87 ½

Dillon Sharp – Bible $.05; coal shovel $.03

Joseph McVey – three plugs of tobacco $.16

Nathaniel Morrison – sprouting hoe $.05

Total amount received from sale of the estate was $66.67.

Patterson Breeding, Administrator

Settlement by PATTERSON BREEDING, Administrator of the Estate of RICHARD HARPER, deceased Amount returned in the inventory $388.05 Amount received from sale of the personal property $66.67 Paid G. B. Cloud receipt $1.75 Paid T. H. Stone constable receipt $5.94 Paid William Minton note that could not be collected $5.00; another bad note $7.00 Paid John Vance note returned bad judgment $3.62 Paid Naoma Lynch debt bad and in judgment $2.75 Reuben Harper and John Harper note $87.75 Paid William Daugherty note $9.42 Paid H. Graham proven account $2.50; receipt for $6.10 Paid Frances Breeding account $60.00 Paid D. B. McVay account $30.83 Amount of offset proven on Minton’s note $27.51 Paid William Venable account $2.00 Paid William Laffoon account $1.00 Paid William Whited account $16.77 Paid Administrator charges for his trouble in winding up estate $24.00 Paid clerk’s fees $5.50 Amount of Henry Reynolds note proven off $2.00

Leaves a balance of $482.90 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 13th day of June 1853.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk