CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 1

Year’s Provisions to Widow of WILLIAM JOHNSON, deceased $79.00 allowed, with the addition of the income of the grist mill what soap and lard is now on hand One sorrel two year old filly rated at $20.00 Two small heifers valued at $9.41 1/3, this being allowed in consequence of the necessary articles not being on hand, this May the 20th 1850.

William Williams, Comm. Edmond Russell, Comm. Jesse Cain, Comm.

Sale of the Estate of WILLIAM JOHNSON, deceased Buyers were: Elizabeth Johnson – dresser and pails and all ware on the dresser $1.00; lot of pot vessels $.50; two tables, tray, big wheel, reel $1.50; two axes, two pot racks $.75; two bedsteads, iron shovel, smoothing iron, flesh fork, spoon, ladle, coffee mill $.50; two gums, barrel $.05; pair steelyards, flax brake $.25; pided heifer $.25; 63 lbs iron, ox ring $.50; canoe $.25; clock $.25

William S. Wilson – rifle gun $13.31; weeding hoe $.75; weeding hoe $.81; 1 ½ inch augur $.13

Alexander Rouse – broad axe $3.45; hand joining plain $.75; cutting knife $.55

George Sharp – lot of wagon irons $8.50; four wagon hubs $1.12 ½; 52 wagon spokes $.50

John Ausmus – four wagon hubs $1.00

William H. Moyers – 29 head of hogs $29.12 ½

James M. Kincaid – gray horse colt $20.12 ½

William Rogers – pair chains, pair hames, collar $1.62 ½; weeding hoe $.79; foot adze $.80; two inch augur $.80; 6 quarter augur $.75

Rhoda Anderson – vest pattern $.63 ½

James A. Rogers – cloth coat pattern $11.50; sorrel horse $70.00; five quarter augur $.50

Thomas Miller – cow and calf $10.12 ½

John Cawood – three choice ewes and their lambs $6.76; two chisels, gouge, gimblet $1.30

Nancy Johnson – iron square $.51

Linnions Billingsley – three ewes, lambs, 2nd choice $5.11; four 3rd choice sheep $3.65; five 4th choice sheep $3.85

Sylvester Bowman – set wagon tires

Eli Miller, Administrator

Settlement with ELI MILLER, Administrator of the Estate of WILLIAM JOHNSON, deceased Amount of sales $204.73 Amount received that is not charged in the account of sales $92.18 Paid Elizabeth Johnson receipt $79.00; another for 7.84 Paid Hiram Ausmus receipt $7.00 Paid David Anderson receipt on account $25.75 Paid William A. Hunter receipt on account $1.50 Paid Nancy Johnson receipt on note $34.71 Paid William S. Wilson account $8.00 Paid N. D. Lane’s Constable receipt $64.04; another for $26.57 Paid Peter Marcum’s account $1.00 Paid Jacob Sharp receipt and notes $9.12; affidavit $11.00 Paid clerk’s fees $5.50

Leaves a balance of $10.84 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 25th day of May 1853.

Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk