CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2

Year’s Support for ELIZABETH BURCHFIELD, Widow of WILLIAM BURCHFIELD, deceased 300 lbs bacon, all the lard now on hand in the little house All the soap in the smokehouse in troughs All the 70 bushels of corn unshucked in the crib All the wheat on hand some 8 or 10 bushels All the oats on hand in the sheaf some 400 bundles All the fodder on hand some 300 bundles $13.00 cash to buy salt, sugar and coffee

All of which is submitted this 4th day of March 1852.

H. Graham, Comm. James Johnston, Comm. John Breeding, Comm.

Inventory of the Estate of WILLIAM BURCHFIELD, deceased Personal property includes: Cupboard, clock, bedstead and bed, four plates, six tumblers, teapot, three saucers, four teacups, coffee pot, stone jar, glass, set of fire dogs, shovel, oven, skillet, axe, two hoes, two chests, three crocks, three bottles, four ounces of powder, candlestick, pair of candle snuffers, little pot, razor, strop and box, two baskets, two barrels, box, handsaw, tenant saw, augur, drawing knife, chisel, hammer, mowing bade, scythe and cradle, riddle, six teaspoons, half bushel, washing tub, pail, well bucket, shovel, tin bucket, churn, grindstone, tar bucket, cover seed, bee gum, three stone hammers, set of boring tools, two horse wagon and gear, dipper, some stock hogs, two sows and pigs, sand sieve

Sale of the Estate of WILLIAM BURCHFIELD, deceased Buyers were: Jeremiah Burchfield – two hoes $.15; tenant saw $.05; sow and pigs $5.25

James Blancett – shovel $.50; hand saw $.60; hammer $.30; augur $.22; drawing knife $.40

John Burchfield – chopping axe $.65; scythe and sneed $1.32; flour barrel $.25

Absalom Robinson – froe $.30; scythe and cradle $1.36; stone hammer $.62; cockle sieve $1.00

Sale of the Estate of WILLIAM BURCHFIELD, deceased Buyers were: Col. Jehile Fugate – lot of tools $.22

Anderson Burchfield – lot of stone boring tools $1.80; churn $.15; salt barrel $.05; tub and can $.10; box $.05; looking glass $.05; two crocks and bottles $.10; lot of blasting powder $.80

D. G. Miller – oven and lid and bucket $.25

David Sanders – grindstone $.30

William Blanset – bee hive $.80; two horse wagon $43.50; set gearing $14.50; piggin $.05; lot glass and delf ware $.25; stone jar $.80; straw bed and stead $.25; skillet $.25; small chest $.12; large chest $.15; clock $1.00; cupboard $1.00; pair dog irons $.25; fire shovel $.05; half bushel $.10; razor and box $.50

William Neil – some clover seed

Martin Burchfield – six shoats $9.00; sow and two pigs $2.00