CLAIBORNE COUNTY, TENNESSEE Will Book, Volume 2Sale of the Estate of FIELDING LEWIS, deceased Buyers were: Johnson Mayes – screw plate $.90; screwdriver $.10
James Lewis, Jr. – cow $14.10
Jesse Lynch – cow and calf $15.50
Enoch Simmons – red steer $5.55
Cary Myers – dun cow and calf $13.00
Sterling Kincaid – boar $10.95
E. C. Kilbourne – five hogs 1st choice $33.30; five hogs 2nd choice $32.50; five hogs 3rd choice $30.25; six hogs 7th choice $11.00
E. C. Simmons – five bushels wheat $.87
James Thompson – five hogs 5th choice $21.00; five hogs 6th choice $15.00
John Vanbebber – seven hogs 8th choice $9.25
Abraham Myers – cart $6.55
Jacob Myers – five bushels wheat $.85; five bushels wheat $.86
Joshua Collins – log chain $3.00
P. M. Hodges – halter chain $.40; augur $.60
G. B. Cloud – mowing blade $.06 ¼
John Cox – red steer $6.65; red steer $7.70; red steer $6.95
Gannon McGee – cow and calf $11.75
Isaac Goin – yoke of cattle $55.50
John H. Carr – yoke of cattle $38.05
Jacob Walker – set smith tools $35.00
John Woods – brown mare $101.00
Hamilton Burchfield – sorrel colt $22.50
William Houston – brown colt $50.00; scythe and cradle $2.50; haystack $10.00
Daniel McVey – gun and pouch $12.62 ½
John Phelps – augur $1.00
Elijah Harp – man’s saddle and cover $12.00
E. Goin – drawing knife $.75
James P. Ford – augur and chisel $.81; set stay chains $.15; two hoes, coulter and steeple $1.00
James Rossin – plow and two hoes $.50
G. A. Lewis – foot adze $1.00
G. W. Lewis, Jr. – 30 dozen oats $.10 ¼; 30 dozen oats $.10 ¼
Jesse Jones – 30 dozen oats $.09 ½
James Simmons – heifer $6.25
R. J. Russell – bull $11.25
Charles L. Cupps – axe $1.30
2nd Sale of the Estate of Fielding Lewis, held the 25th November 1852: Buyers were: Jesse Lewis – bed, bedstead and quilt $7.25; gray horse $70.00; negro boy John $816.00
Solomon Phelps – glass bottle $.50
E. C. Kilbourne – negro boy Harve $869.00
E. Harp – iron pot rack $1.00
James C. Simmons – three hogsheads $.57; pair steelyards $1.15
William Keck – line $.07
Nelson Goin – iron hoop barrel $.80
Andrew McKee- three salt barrels $.30
Major Houston – salt augur and two pieces $.40
John M. England – red cow $10.50
James Massingale – pistol $1.70; pot $1.45
Nathan Moore, Sr. – bed, bedstead and coverlid $8.25; 50 bushels corn $.30; 50 bushels corn $.27; 50 dozen oats $.10 ½; negro boy Harris $904.00
Robert Lane – 50 bushels corn $.23
William Grimes – bedstead and cord $.75; 400 bundles fodder $.65
William Rector – bedstead and cord $.65; pot rack $.80
Edward Kelly – clock $7.10; cupboard $3.00; looking glass $.25; chest $1.00; pair andirons $1.00; kitchen cupboard $.25; pot rack $.50; black woman Vine $337.00; black woman Moll $10.00
J. M. Burch – six sheep $.80; box irons $1.05
German Reeves – two barrels $.87
G. B. Needham – barrel $.25
William Thompson – patent plow $3.00
E. Goin – big wheel $1.20; 50 bushels corn $.29; 50 dozen oats $.12; 50 dozen oats $.11; bay horse $58.00; boy Henry $921.00
David Goin – 50 bushels corn $.29
William Minton – 50 bushels corn $.28
Jane Minton – oven $1.00 George Ford – 50 bushels corn $.29
Coleman Lane – 50 bushels corn $.28; 50 bushels corn $.28
James Lewis, Sr. – gray mare $30.00; yellow girl Rachel $801.00
Lewis A. Garrett – negro boy Woods $900.00
T. J. Johnson – broad axe $2.10
Total amount received from both sales of the estate was $6425.68
Year’s Provisions to Widow of FIELDING LEWIS, deceased 150 bushels of corn, 15 lbs lard, 500 lbs pork 1st December next 15 bushels of wheat $25.00 to buy coffee, sugar and other necessary articles One stack of hay of the new crop, 50 dozen sheaves of oats, 500 binds fodder Pen shucks and straw All the cabbages and potatoes on the premises 50 lbs fresh beef, 200 lbs salt, all the dried fruit on hand
Andrew Davis, Comm. Abraham Fox, Comm. J. M. Carr, Comm.
Settlement with SAMUEL MOORE, WILLIAM LEWIS and GEORGE W. LEWIS, Administrators of the Estate of FIELDING LEWIS, deceased Amount returned in the inventory $1377.57 Amount of the sales of personal property including slaves $6307.09 ½ Interest collected on the goods notes $383.18 Amount of a note on Levi Goins and others now in suit in the Supreme Court at Knoxville, considered doubtful if not a desperate debt $225.00 Amount of a witness ticket found in the County Court Clerk’s office $9.75 Amount of the sales of some tobacco $35.00 Paid A. C. Hansard’s receipt $10.00 Paid J. C. Lane’s receipt for taxes $8.70 Paid James Fortner’s receipt as Constable $2.00 Paid M. Carriger’s receipt $7.00 Paid out for bill of expenses to Knoxville to get boy Henry out of jail $14.12 Paid A. J. Brock receipt $2.55 Paid C. Y. Rice receipt $7.25 Paid E. C. Kilborne’s receipt on account $3.50 Paid William H. Sneed’s note $252.00 Paid William Houston account $32.59 Paid William Houston’s other receipt $136.95 Paid widow’s receipt for year’s support $25.00 Paid N. A. Evans receipt $18.12 ½ Paid D. C. Bullard’s tax receipt $7.25 Paid N. H. Moore receipt $5.00 Paid H. Houston’s Justice receipt $1.60 Paid H. Houston’s other receipt $16.56 Paid bad note returned on James McNeil $11.09 Paid bad note on H. Wiser $12.00 Paid judgment on Noel Seals $16.80 Paid clerk’s receipt $26.41 Paid J. M. Shaw’s receipt on account $3.05 Paid S. Moore’s and G. W. Lewis receipt $40.00 Paid A. J. Chadwell’s tax receipt $4.00 Paid John M. Burch for pork used during the winter by the heirs $36.60 Paid Noah Herrell’s receipt $42.50 Paid Administrators charge for their trouble in winding up the estate $100.00 Paid Isaac Wert’s account $3.00 Paid J. C. Lane’s, Deputy Sheriff receipt $2.50 Paid Johnson Mayes account $3.80 Paid William H. Mayes account $6.12 ½ Paid W. R. Evans attorney fees $65.00
Leaves a balance of $7434.42 remaining in the hands of the Administrator, this 3rd day of February 1855.
Thomas J. Johnson, Clerk
