Slaves mentioned
in Bourbon County Women’s Probate Records 1786-1850
Transcribed and
submitted by Nancy O'Malley
"This is a work in
progress"
Elizabeth
Allentharp
Bourbon Will Book K:457
Will
Direct that her land be sold at public auction
at one and two years credit and that executor
make deed when the money is paid. Other estate
consisting of 20 head cattle, and household and
kitchen furniture is to be sold at one year=s
credit except as is herein devised.
To children of my nephew Samuel Allentharp,
$4400; nephew Jeptha Beasley appointed their
trustee to spend the money in suitable piece of
land for each child and he is to pay balance to
such person as may be appointed guardian of
children and any expenses said nephew may be at
or trouble to pay to be paid to him out of the
estate;
To my niece Lucy Bashford, $2000, a doz. fancy
chairs and a clock, but she is to be charged
with the maintenance of my servant Molly after
my decease. Molly is to be free at my decease
and if the court requires security, Lucy=s
legacy is to be charged with such support.
To the children of my nephew Samuel, I give all
my silver spoons.
Balance of my estate be evenly divided between
the brothers and sisters of my nephew James A.
Miller or their descendents.
Nephew Thomas Miller appointed exec.
Written Sept 10, 1840
Signed with mark
Proved 5 July 1841
Will Book M:4
Inventory
4 toilets; 1.50; old bureau;
1.00 2.50
2 breakfast tables; 1 dining table; 1 small
dining table 7.00
Old sideboard; 2.00; 2 old looking
glasses 2.25
3 toys; 2 pictures; 4 set window
blinds 1.25
5 pair S. Clothes; 3.00; 8 old books;
1.00 4.00
1 small bed, bedding and
bedstead 10.00
2 old C. Sticks;.12 1/2; bed, bedding and
bedstead;
15.00 15.12
5 old Windsor chairs; teaboard, teacups,
etc. 3.50
3 dishes, 6 wine glasses, set teaplates and H.
Glass 1.25
Set knives and forks; 10 plates; 3 glass P.
Dishes 2.00
Teapot; 4 old cow bottles;
pitcher .50
Old fire shovel and
tongs .25
3 parcels old rag
carpet 2.00
Carpet on setting
room 15.00
Old side saddle; 5.00; fancy bed, bedstead
etc. 21.00
1 bed, bedding and old
bedstead 5.00
Small trunk; 1.00; 36 pins;
2.00 3.00
4 coverlids; 3 blankets and 1
quilt 9.00
2 ovens & lids; 2 pots and 2
skillets 2.50
1 pot tramel and boiling
oven 1.50
1 Baker, 1 reflector, bucket and
churn 1.00
Reel and big wheel; 1.00; 2 c. Mills; 2 pot
hooks 2.00
1 cow and calf; 10.00; old horse;
5.00 15.00
1 year old heifer; 7.00; ewe and lamb;
1.50 8.50
Total 138.12
2
19 Oct 1841
Will Book M:38-39
Sales
Nov. 19, 1841
1 sett plates
Allen Bashford 1.00
3 bottles
Lucy Porter .50
3 glass plates
Isham P. Miller .75
2 salts & 3 bottles
same .81
1 sett knives/forks
John Miller 1.50
1 sett cups/saucers
same .87
1 sugar bowl & cream cup
Isham P. Miller .31
1 set cup plates
same .31
1 glass dish
Washington Miller 2.00
2 dishes
John Miller .37
1 dish
Same .93
1 dish & cream mug
Mary Miller .30
1 coffee mill;6 jelly glasses
same 1.12
1 breakfast table
James Myers 3.25
1 tea board
Isham P. Miller 1.87
3 rag carpets
same 6.25
1 bed/bedstead
John Miller 31.00
1 tea pot
Isham P. Miller .37
1 bible
James Myers 6.87
1 lot of old books
Lucy Porter .43
5 chairs
Isham P. Miller 2.51
1 bureau
Mary Miller 5.12
1 side board
John Lair 8.50
1 candle stand
Lucy Porter 2.00
1 dining table
Daniel Isgrig 6.15
1 table linen
John W. Turner .75
1 same
Tho. I. Miller 1.37
1 table linen
Lucy Porter .93
1 same
James Myers 1.81
1 same
same 2.06 1/4
2 setts window curtains
Mary Miller 1.62
1 girting carpet
Lucy Porter 28.25
1 bed/bedstead
same 13.50
1 toy
Mary Miller .68
2 candlesticks
John Miller .25
3 pictures
Washington Miller .25
Amt. Brought
Forward 137.78
1/4
2 looking glasses
Isham P. Miller .37
1 bed/bedstead
James A. Miller 4.25
1 bed/bedstead
James Myers 25.00
1 trunk
Washington Miller .87 2
1 coverlet
Isham P. Miller 2.12 2
1 quilt
Jos. Paxton .37
1 quilt
Wash Miller 1.00
1 blanket
Jno. Miller .75
1 same
same .25
1 same
Isham P. Miller 1.00
1 counterpane
Wash Miller 1.46
1 coverlid
Isham P. Miller 2.56
1 sheet
F. Hutchison .37
1 counterpane
Wash Miller .56
1 same
same .81
1 coverlid
same 1.62
1 same
same 2.06 2
1 side saddle
Lucy Porter 11.25
1 kettle
Isham P. Miller 1.06
1 grid iron
James A. Miller .25
1 pot
?? Miller .18
1 oven
James Myers .18
1 skillet
Isham P. Miller .50
1 same
James A. Miller .50
1 pot
Isham P. Miller .93
1kettle
same .56
1 pot trammel
James A. Miller .75
1 baker
same .81
1 shovel & tongs
same .56
1 bucket
Isham P. Miller .31
1 wheel
Mary Miller 2.25
1 reel
Isham P. Miller 1.06
1 horse
Allen Bashford 11.31
1 heifer
Jno. Lair 9.08
1 cow and calf
Parmer 10.81
1 table
Ellen 1.50
total 237.44
152 acres of land @ $32.25/acre to Thos. I.
Miller
Items taken at the appraisement
1 oven
James A. Miller .25
1 coffee mill
same .25
1 pitcher
Thos. I. Miller .25
1 ewe and lamb
Isham P. Miller 1.50
4 April 1842
Isabella Blen
Bourbon
Will Book G:373
Boy Harry to
be free at 30 years; to serve her brother
Ephraim Harriott until emancipation.
Ephraim to pay Harry $25/year for
his services.
[Harry was emancipated in 1838 according to
manumission records.]
Signed with
mark
Written 18
April 1826
Proved May
1826
Isabella was
widow of Jacob Blen whose will follows:
Bourbon
Will Book G:278
To wife
Isabella: slave boy Harry, all personal and real
estate for her life except silver watch which
goes to Ephraim Harriott.
At wife=s
death, slave woman Hillis to be freed; if Hillis
to become helpless, executors are at liberty to
support her out of proceeds of sale of
property. All real and personal estate to be
sold at wife=s
death and money equally divided among brothers
and sisters: Peter, Abraham, David, Benjamin,
William, Jessee, Elizabeth Woods, Hannah
Harriott, and Peggy Bird.
Written 6
March 1825
Proved May
1825
Martha Bridges
Bourbon Will Book J:169
To mother Nancy Bridges: her girl Milly; after
mother’s death, Milly to go to brother Matthew;
personal estate willed in same way
Written 2 July 1823
Signed name
Rpoved 2 Sept 1833
Polly Clarkson
Polly Clarkson
Bourbon Will Book G:471
To husband Peter Clarkson: slaves Edward and his
son, Alfred; Eady and her two children, Ann and
Daviss; Easter’s 3 children, Harriet, Julian and
Joseph and their increase.
Slaves to be managed by her husband, divided among
children after his death.
Written 3 April 1827
Signed name
Proved May 1827
Jane Dunlap
Bourbon Will Book F:371
25 Nov 1817
To mother Elizabeth Kimbro: my houses and 2 lots in
Millersburg, 1 slave woman named Dolly
To Sally Frasure, 1 horse & saddle, a bed with
furniture when she reaches 18
Remainder to mother who is to serve as administratix.
Signed with mark
Proved Nov 1820
No inventory or sales
Anna Field
Bourbon Will Book
B:224
Will
To son Larkin,
with whom she now lives, Slaves, Joe, Elleck,
Leanner and Rachel; all horses, cattle and household
furniture.
To daughter Mary
Slaughter, Slaves Jack, Willes and Charlotty (in
hands of Larkin on her behalf) to go to Larkin at
Mary’s death.
To daughter Anna
Roberts, Slaves Clowe, Kitty and Simon and their
increase to go to her living heirs at her (Anna’s)
death.
To son John Field,
Slaves Bridget, Sewes and Easter
signed with mark
Written 28 Aug
1799
Proved March 1804
No inventory or
sales
Elizabeth Forman
Bourbon County Will Book G: 23-24
No will was found.
Pursuant to an order of the Bourbon County Court at
their January Term 1822 we the undersigned three of
the commissioners appointed by said Court to
appraise the Estate of Elizabeth Forman dec’d (late
widow of William Forman dec’d) having met at the
late residence of said decedant on the eleventh day
of the aforesaid month being duly sworn proceeded to
appraise said Estate in the following manner to wit.
|
Sundries of cupboard furniture |
12.00 |
|
One cupboard |
10.00 |
|
One Yankee clock and case |
20.00 |
|
One sugar desk |
6.00 |
|
One breakfast table |
5.00 |
|
Six old winzor chairs |
2.00 |
|
Six common chairs |
3.50 |
|
One pair of old andirons, shovel and poker |
1.50 |
|
One bedstead, bed & furniture |
20.00 |
|
One do do do (probably means another
bedstead, bed and furniture) |
20.00 |
|
One chest |
1.00 |
|
One desk and book case |
18.00 |
|
One falling leaf table |
1.00 |
|
One arm chair |
1.00 |
|
One hair trunk |
2.00 |
|
Two big wheels, one little wheel and one
reel |
1.00 |
|
Two little wheels |
3.00 |
|
Three buckets, one old chair and 6 red tray
[?]
Two skillets, one oven, a little kettle and
[illegible]
One kettle, on frying pan, spice morter,
griddle and back oven |
No value listed |
|
One pot and hooks |
2.50 |
|
Two pot tramells |
3.00 |
|
Large kettle and one bail |
10.00 |
|
Two tubs, one pail and one basket |
1.00 |
|
One conk shell |
1.50 |
|
Eighteen crocks |
1.00 |
|
A lot of pewter and tin pans |
2.00 |
|
A pair of steelyards and spools |
1.50 |
|
One old table |
.75 |
|
Two smoothing irons |
1.00 |
|
Four bags and one basket |
1.25 |
|
One watering pot and sifter |
.25 |
|
One hackle and one pair of cards |
.75 |
|
One loom and sundry tackle belonging thereto |
9.00 |
|
21 head of hogs at |
27.00 |
|
Two calves |
4.00 |
|
Five cows |
60.00 |
|
Two steers |
14.00 |
|
One bay horse |
5.00 |
|
One gray horse |
65.00 |
|
One bay mare |
25.00 |
|
One black mare |
15.00 |
|
Eighteen head of sheep |
36.00 |
|
One wagon and two pair of geers |
35.00 |
|
One log chain |
1.50 |
|
Sundry old books |
1.20 |
|
One pair of stretchers |
1.00 |
|
Six coverlets |
40.00 |
|
Four blankets |
16.00 |
|
Five table cloths |
6.00 |
|
Six towels |
.75 |
|
Three toilets and one widow [window] curtain |
3.00 |
|
Six sheets |
12.00 |
|
One bed and two pillows |
15.00 |
|
Two old plows |
4.00 |
|
Two hoes |
1.00 |
|
Fifteen shocks of corn |
7.50 |
|
Fifteen geese |
3.75 |
|
One underbed, bedstead & cord |
2/00 |
|
One Negro man slave name Tom |
250.00 |
Charles Lander
William Scott
Edward Whaley
Joseph Forman
Bourbon County court March Term 1822
This Inventory and appraisement of the Estate of
Elizabeth Forman Deceased being returned into Court
is ordered to be recorded.
Att. Thos. P. Smith
[initials below]
Sarah Forrest
Bourbon Will Book M:49
To son Albert Morris, $50 and forgiveness of all
advances, also bay mare called Julia.
To dau. Polly Park, $50
Clothing, bed and bedclothes equally divided between
daughters Rachel Morris, Polly Park, Rebecca Parker,
and Nancy Turney.
Freed woman slave Mary
Remainder of estate to son John Morris except her
claim to land now possessed by Starnes Hibler and
Willis Goodman and a red cow with white face that
goes to slave Mary.
If land obtained, ½ goes to son John Morris;
remainder equally divided between all children. If
Julia has a spring foal, it goes to John.
Son John appointed as trustee for Mary who also was
given a bureau.
Written 30 November 1839
Signed with mark
Proved 2 may 1842
Did not find a deed of manumission for Mary.
Elizabeth Garrard
Bourbon Will Book J:81
Will
Being of perfect sense and mind
Devise and bequeath to my sons William and James as
trustees for the use and benefit of my daughter
Elizabeth M. Brooks, wife of James A. Brooks, during
her life and then for the use and benefit ofh er
children or children’s children as the case may be,
the following property
towit, negro man slave named Bennet? And a negro boy
slave named Walter, and and also the sum of $1000 in
cash.
Devise and bequeath to said sons as trustes for
daughter Ann Ellenor Hawkins, wife of Thomas W.
Hawkins, during her life and then for children, etc.
all following
to wit: negro woman slave name Aqila and her two
sons William and Edmond, also my carrieage and
harness and $800 in cash of which cash I have
already advanced $300 leaving a balance of $500.
I devise to my daughter Mariah Dudley, wife of Peter
Dudley, the follwing
towit negro boy named Francis and $1600 in cash
I devise to my granddaughter, Elizabeth Garrard,
daughter of my son, John, 1 bed and furniture and
the miniature likeness of her father now in my
possession, and $200 in cash.
All of the rest and residue of my estate I devise
and direct to be disposed of as follows;
After payment of my just debts and the legacies
before mentioned, the balance shall be divided into
three equal parts; one of which shall be held by my
said sons as trustees for my said daughter Elizabeth
and one other which shall be held by said son for
daughter Ann Ellenor and the other to be held for
dau. Mariah and her heirs forever.
Executors are to retain in their hands the money
devised to my daughter Elizabeth until she comes of
age or marries and then to be paid her with interest
from the time of my decease.
Estate to pass to grandchildren after daughters
die. If slave devised to Ann Ellenor should have
issue, they should pass with their mother.
Signed 23 July 1830; Mem. Whereas I hold a note on
Peter Dudley for $330, I direct that no interest be
charged thereon.
Proved April 12, 1832
Will Book J:106
Appraisement made 9 October 1832
1 black horse @40.00 l grey horse
@40.00 80.00
1 sorrel mare and oclt; 60.00; 1 brown horse
40.00 100.00
A bay horse; 70.00; 1 bay horse, one eye;
60.00 130.00
1 young sorrel horse; 70.00; 1 sorrel filly;
35.00 105.00
1 mule; 55.00; 1 bay horse; 30.00; 1 cart & oxen;
60.00; 1still, cap and worm;
12.00 157.00
1 small still about 16
gal. 5.00
2 cross cut saws; 2.00; 1 lot of old tools;
5.00 7.00
2 cradles and scythes; 3.00; 2 mowing scythes;
3.00 6.00
4 old scythes; 1.00; 1 old Dearbourn;
5.00 6.00
6 ploughs; 6.00; 1 Lupton plough;
2.00 8.00
1 large harrow; 5.00; 2 pair stretchers and
doubletree???;
3.00 8.00
2 iron tooth rakes;.50; 3 axes and wedge;
2.00 2.50k
1 spade and prooning
chisel 1.25
Shoes; 2.00;
mattock;1.00 3.00
Old waggon and
gear 25.00
Lot of hogs about 60
head 40.00
Lot of old gear;5.00; cutting box;
9/ 6.50
76 head sheep; 76.00; 1 water cart and barrel;
4.00 80.00
1 small grindstone; 9/; 1 bool?;
35.00 36.50
1 heifer; 5.00; 1 apple pairer and tobacco cutter;
1.00 6.00
1 loom and tackle; 12.00; 1 log chain;
6.00 18.00
1 wheat fan;8.00; 1 jackscrews;
3.25 11.25
Total 843.00
The within is the amount of property which have come
into our hands as executors except such as have been
divided between the legatees themselves.
Additional inventory pp. 106-107
William Garrard’s note, principal and interest to
this time 1150.00
Eras. Gill note due 23 Feb 1821
for 15.00
Achilles Edwards note due 30 Jan.
1825 30.00
A.W. Dudley due 18 Dec.
1829
350.00
P. Dudley note without
interest 330.00
John Harvies’ note principal and
interest 630.00
Cash on hand in
secretary 465.00
Cash of V. Bedford for
wool 12.00
Addtional cash found in
secretary 12.50
Cash of P. Dudley for
corn 13.20
Total 3007.70
Will Book K:9
Additional inventory
August 1832
corner of page is missing
Cash on hand at
death 465.??
Wm. Garrard’s note due
decedent 1000.??
Interest on
same 150.??
Note on Erasmus
Gill
1.??
Note on Achilles
Edwards 30.00
Interest on
same 14.25
Note on Ambrose W.
Dudley 350.00
Interest on
same 92.16
Note on Peter
Dudley 330.00
Note on John
Hervey 600.00
Interest on
same 30.00
Cash of Ab Bedford for
wool 12.00
Cash found in
secretary 12.50
Cash of Peter Dudley for
corn 13.20
Part of decedent’s dividend from the salt works as
per will of James Garrard 564.15
Cash of Boon Ingels for
wool 5.87
½
balance of decedent’s dividend from salt works
aforesaid including her interest in Negro Bob and in
the hire of Negro Dudley for
1832 329.72
Total 4013.85
Interest on John M. Allen’s note executed at
sale 3.00
Total
4016.85
Also for hay left by decedent which was divided
between the divisees, and the lot of books sold for
$24.34 to Hawkins and Dudley’s being estimated at
the same amounts in the whole
to
73.02
Total 4089.87
J:102 Sales bill
Stephen L. Garrard plow
etc. 1.37
½
Same Broad axe
etc. .50
Peter Dudley 1 drawing
knife etc. 4.12 ½
Same 2 cradles
and scythes 1.87 ½
Same 2 mowing
scythes 2.12 ½
Thomas L. Garrard 4 old
scythes/blades 1.00
Benjamin Kinningham
2 X cut
saws 5.12 ½
James Koons 1 old
still 12.25
James Garrard
1 small herb
still 5.00
P. Dudley 2 garden
rakes 1.75
James Garrard
1 spade and
chisel .50
Same Old axes,
etc. 1.50
P. Dudley 5
hoes 1.50
James Garrard
1 Lupton
plow .57 ½
P. Dudley 2 pairs
steelyards & doubletree 3.00
Same 1 old
harrow 2.50
Same 2 old
shovel plows 1.50
James Garrard
3 old
plows 2.50
Thomas L. Garrard 1 old
plow 1.00
Seipio Waller 1 old
carriadge & 2 old tea kettles 15.75
P. Dudley 1 lot of
stock hogs, about 60 70.00
Erasmus Gill 1 old
waggon 17.50
Paris Howard 2 pair
breching (?) and hip straps 4.12 ½
P. Dudley 1 lot of
gears, haims, chains etc. 7.12 ½
Same 1 pided
heifer 8.25
William Parker 1
bull 18.00
P. Dudley 1 pair
oxen and oxcart 45.62
½
Amount Brought
Over 238.37
½
Peter Dudley 1 bay
horse 58.50
Richard Dunn 1 sorrel
horse 78.50
P. Dudley 1 black
horse 68.50
Same 1 black
horse 37.50
Same 1 grey
horse 36.00
John Mitchell 1 bay
horse & colt (?) 42.50
James A. Brooks 1 bay
horse 68.00
Isham T. Garrard 1 sorrel
mare and colt 72.00
Anne C. Hawkins 1 sorrel
filly 38.50
P. Dudley 1 [can’t
read] 56.25
Same 1 mutton
cart (?) 4.50
Same 1
grindstone 2.87
½
James Garrard
1 tobacco cutting machine
etc. 1.00
David Cline 1 loom &
apparatus 12.56
1/4
P. Dudley 1 log
chain 3.00
Same 1 wheat
fan 9.50
Stephen L. Garrard
1 jack
screw 2.00
Anne E. Hawkins 1 pair
small steelyards .75
P. Dudley 1 large
still 2.12 ½
Total 802.98
3/4
Isham Talbott 150 ac. 1
R. 16 po @20/ac 3007.00
Matthew Current &
Brent 61.1.2poles...25.00 1500.50
Peter Dudley 260 ac?
Purchased at sale 29 Nov 1832 @ 20.12 ½
5250.75
Total 6789.25
Mary Graffort
Bourbon Will Book J:11
widow
of Thomas Graffort.
Left $900 out of $1000 left her
by her husband to be equally divided between
children of her slave woman Cassandra and her
slave man Hedgman;
future children of Cassandra taken into account.
$100 to friend William Stamps,
Sr.
Written 2 August 1824
Signed name
Proved 7 November 1831
Mary
Graffort was married to Thomas
Graffort who died in
1823 (Bourbon Will Book G:237)
His will included the following:
1. Mary was left all of the
estate for the rest of her life and $1000 to be
disposed of at her will.
2. Slaves were to be set free
after his wife died; slaves included, Daniel,
Hedgman, Peter &
Cassandra his wife, John, Bill,
Hazzard, George,
Jesse and Wesley, Hannah, Mary,
Tryphena, and Amy &
any children born of Cassandra after this will
was made or before Mary
Graffort died.
3. Thomas was in the process of
purchasing two sections of land in Indiana to be
divided equally among this
slaves; if purchase did not go through,
he wanted his executors to purchase property for
same purpose.
4. His home farm was to be sold
after his wife’s death and $200 given to his
nephew, Thomas Graffort.
5. Balance of the estate and
personal property was to be divided among the
slaves.
William Stamps, William Garrard
and David Purviance
appointed executors. Will
written 21 November 1821 and proved
during the July term 1823. Codicil specified
that if any of the slaves died before his wife
did, their shares were to
divided among the surviving slaves.
Manumission records, all dated
1832, were found for Amy (12 yrs), Bill (25
yrs), Cassandra (no age), George (21 yrs),
Hannah (no age), Hazzard
(23 yrs), Hedgman
(no age), Jane (10 yrs; born after Thomas made
his will), Jesse (19 yrs), John (no age),
Leonard (8 yrs; born after Thomas made his
will), Mary (no age), Peter (no age),
Tryphena (27 yrs),
Wesley (18 yrs); Daniel was missing (may have
died).
Possible census evidence was
found for Cassandra (Indianapolis), Bill
(Vanderburgh, Ind.),
Hedgman (Howard County, Missouri), and
Tryphena (married a
Turner; Indianapolis) in 1850. Evidence not
found for others; some may have died in the 1833
cholera epidemic although this has not been
verified. Females probably married and so names
changed.
Margaret Hamilton
Bourbon Will Book G:521
To son William: large bible and
other books in possession at death
Negro woman Rachel to serve
William for 1 year then be
freed.
Rachel=s
children, Mary, Hetty, Hannah, John, James and
Judith Anne to son William until they reach age
of 25; Whilliam to
teach or have them taught to read the bible then
they are to be freed at age 25
ATo
fix their ages@
Mary - to be counted 10 years old
next Christmas
Hetty - 8 on 4 July last
John and James - 4 on 8 Dec. Next
Judith Ann - 2 on 8 Dec. Next
If Rachel has another child
before her emancipation, it is to be freed with
her.
A young horse with a bald face
which she owns is to be sold and proceeds
devoted to missionary purposes; forwarded to
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions
Upstairs bed, bedstead and
curtains to granddaughter, Margaret Young
Hamilton.
Bed in room below which I use
with a stand of purple curtains with bedstead
and furniture to granddaughter Jane Eliza
Hamilton.
Bed with its furniture to
granddaughter Nancy Isabella
Table and teaspoons and tea tongs
to granddaughter Margaret Young Hamilton.
Silver soup spoon to son William
AChaney@
bowl and coffee cups to Margaret Young Hamilton.
Rest of cupboard furniture to be
divided between granddaughters Margaret and Jane
.
Signed name
Written 11 Sept 1827
Proved Nov. 1827
Margaret was widow of John
Hamilton who died in 1824; his will as follows
Bourbon Will Book G:249-250
To wife Margaret:; 1/3 of
plantation, 2 of orchard, the end of the house
we now live in; 2 of the big room upstairs; her
bads and books and
cupboard furniture; and furniture now in the
rooms to remain as is until her death, then to
go to son William. Her choosing of all my
horses and cows enough to support her and who
she wants about her of blacks while she lives
and kept on the place. Slave Rachel and her
children solely to Margaret.
To son William my plantation
supposed to contain 200 acres on
Houstone, also
wagons andhorses and
implements on place.
William to pay $100 to
brother Andrew, and
$100 each to Andrew=s
children, Patsey,
Lucy, Thomas and Margaret one year after death.
Written 10 Sept 1821
Signed name
Proved Nov. 1824
Inventory valued at $676.00
Will Book G:251
Inventory of John Hamilton
1 sorrel
horse 50.00
1 black
horse 27.50
1 sorrel
mare 30.00
1 sorrel
colt 8.00
1 red
cow 8.00
1red cow with white
face 5.50
1 red/white
cow 6.00
1 black/white
cow 6.00
1 red
cow 6.00
3
calves 4.00
2
steers 8.00
1 wheat
fan 6.00
3 stacks
hay 7.00
5 sets of
gears 15.00
1 log
chain 1.25
1
plough 2.50
1
gridiron 1.00
1 wagon and
streatchers 40.00
1 bar shear
plough 1.50
2
sows 2.50
1 side
saddle 8.00
6 Windsor
chairs 6.50
3 old tubs and
stand 5.50
1 bed, bedstead and
furniture 50.00
1 bed, bedstead and
furniture 30.00
2 Awidow
curtains@ 6.50
1 bed, bedstead and
furniture 30.00
1 trundle bed, bedstead and
furniture 15.00
1 sugar
desk 3.00
1 case of
drawers 4.00
1 spinning
wheel 1.50
1
secretary 25.00
1 clock and
case 25.00
1 cupboard and
furniture 65.00
1 lot of
bedcloths 85.00
5
tablecloths 10.00
14 yards full
cloth 14.00
10 old
chains 5.00
1 looking
glass 1.50
1 tea
kettle 2.00
Tongs and shovel, fire irons,
etc. 3.25
1 pair flat
irons 1.00
1 wire
sieve 1.00
2 candlesticks and 3 small
waiters 1.50
1 lot of tin ware and 1 pewter
dish 2.50
1 knife box, knives and
forks 2.00
1 lot of
books 20.00
2 tin
boxes 1.50
2 pots, 2 ovens, 3
skillets 4.00
3 large kettles, 1 spade, old
axe, old mattock 6.00
3 old
buckets .75
1 reel, wheel, and
churn .75
1 scythe and
cradle 2.00
Total 676.00
No inventory or sales for
Margaret Hamilton. Need to check on sales for
her husband.
Elizabeth Hand, widow
Will Book B:20
To Edward Fugate: “my best bed and its furniture,
one trunk cullender”
To son John Hand: discharged debts owed her
To son Robert: 1 negro man named Ned, 1 mare, 1
4-gallon pot, half of meat & corn
To son Henry: 1 bed & furniture
To Ann Trussel & Milly White: 1 bed & furniture, big
Dutch oven, 6 pewter plates, 1 dish, 2 flax wheels
All else equally divided between Mary Fugate & Henry
Hand
Capt. Robert Johnson & Edward Fugate, executors.
Signed with mark.
Proved July, 1797
Elizabeth James
Bourbon Will Book G:107
Wills
Widow of Thomas James
to son John: 1 bed and furniture
to son Alexander: 1 bed and furniture, 1 young
heifer, 1 sow shoat
to dau. Agnes Perkins: 1 bed and furniture, sorrel
horse Tom; 1 young heifer; 1 sow shoat
to dau. Mildred James: $250, part of land sale due
Elizabeth from Samuel Alsop of Va.; 1 bed and
furniture; 1 young heifer; 1 young filly known as
Penny’s or Poney’s colt; stew kettle; ½ doz. Silver
tea spoons; 1 sow pig
All livestock, household and kitchen furntirue not
heretofore bequeathed to be equally divided among
children, including Jane Mitchel, Polly Benjamin,
Thomas Williams, and Betsy Marshall. Any other
money not already bequeathed to be equally divided
among all her children.
“Faithful slave” Mary to be emancipated as “she has
at a former time paid the amount of her valuation”;
if children object, executors are to purchase Mary
out of money in estate and deduct price equally from
heirs’ portions. Appointed sons Benjamin and
Alexander as her executors.
Written 11 Feb 1823
Will Book
Inventory taken 11 July 1823; designated as estate
of Thomas James left for her life to Elizabeth but
then reverting to heirs after her deach.
Buyers were not included in the sales bill
Item
(Inv./Sales) Inv./Sales
Horses
1 black
horse 25.00/25.03
1/2
1 white horse blind/1 gray
horse 1.00/.37 1/2
1 roan filly/1 roan
mare 45.00/67.00
1 brown mare/1 black
mare 15.00/11.50
1 sorrel
horse 35.00/55.00
1 bay horse
colt 20.00/25.56
1/2
1 yearling
colt 10.00/8.75
Total 151.00
Cattle
1 broad horn cow and calf/1 cow and
calf 8.00/7.50
1 red heifer/1 read
heifer 4.00/3.87 1/2
1 white face cow/ 1 white faced
heifer 5.00/4.00
1 reddish brindle cow and calf/1 cow and calf 8.00/6.81 1/2
1 white face steer/1 white faced
steer 4.00/2.62 1/2
1 red steer with white back/not
listed 5.00
1 red/white heifer/1
heifer 4.00/4.00
Total 189.00
22 hogs/sold in
lots 22.00/29.12 1/2
Total 211.00
Household furniture
1
bureau 8.00/6.50
1 large dining table/1
table 6.00/3.03 1/2
1 bottle
case 1.00/.39
1 trunk/1 large
trunk 2.00/1.00
2 pewter bason 2.00
2 dishes and 2
plates 6.00
3 dishes and 4
plates .50
At sale, 1 lot of dishes and plates @ .79
1 dish and 1 bason @ 1.87 ½
1 dish and 1 bason @ 2.37 1/2
6 cups & saucers, sugar desk and
teapot 2.00
At sale, 1 lot of cups and saucers @ .92
1 tea kettle etc. @ 1.12 1/2
2 salt cellars, 5 butter plates, 2 pepper
boxes 1.50
At sale, 1 teakettle and 1 pr. Saltcellars @ 2.90
1 coffee
mill 1.00/.75
Half doz. Knives and
forks 2.00/3.06
1/2
2
candlesticks .25/.86
1 crock/1
pot .50/1.51
1/2
1 shovel and tongs/1 pr of shovel and
tongs 1.00/1.50
2 stone
jugs .50
At sale, 1 jug @ .50;
7 common chairs/1 lot of
chairs 1.00/1.90
1 pitcher/1
decanter .50/.27
1 small
trunk 2.00
1 set of candle
moulds .25
4 10-gal. Kettles/4 kettles listed
separately 12.00/5.81 1/4
1 dinner pot and 1 little dinner
pot 2.50
At sale, 1 pot and pairs of scales etc. @ .62 1/2
1 griddle/1
griddle 2.00/3.56
1/4
1 gridiron, 1 saddle and 1 pr.
Pothooks 2.00
At sale, 1 gridiron @.25;
1 sad iron/1 flat
iron 1.00/.37
1/2
2 ovens with broken tops/2 ovens listed
separately 3.00/1.33 1/4
1 lantern and 1 cullender .25
At sale, 1 coffee pot and lantern, etc. @.26
3 water pails and 2
tubs 1.50
At sale, 6 tubs totalling .84 3/4
1 large tea board/1 water
[waiter?] 2.50/2.62 1/2
1 bed, furniture and bedstead/1 bed and
furniture 30.00/17.25
1 bed, furniture and bedstead/1 bed and
furniture 30.00/15.25
1 bed, furniture and bedstead/1 bed and
furniture 20.00/18.00
1 loom swifts and quilting wheel/1 loom and
furniture 9.00/6.68 1/4
1 large wheel and 2 small ones and 1
reel 7.00/4.75
3 lbs. Feathers supposed/1 barrel of
feathers .50/1.12 1/2
Farming Utensils
1 barshear plough and 1 cary
plough 4.50
1 barshear
plough 2.50
At sale, 1 pr. Plough irons @.76; 1 plow @ 1.50 and
1 plow @ 4.06 1/4=3.32 1/4
1 lot of old iron/1 lot of old
iron .50/1.62 1/2
At sale, tools not in inventory included 2 hoes
@ .50;
1 pr. Steelyards @ 1.01
1 hackle? @ .62 ½
1 hoe @ .25
1 ads @ .25
1 handsaw @ 1.81 1/4
2 stone pickle jars/1 lot pickling pots
etc. .75/2.06 1/4
3 milk
crocks 12
½
2 hemp hooks, drawing knife and half bushel/1 set
hemp hooks, etc. 1.001.25
1 trivvet, 1 pewter spoon, 3 pr. Old cards and pr.
Old compasses .50
1 brace? And 2 bits; piece of old square; old bason
and bell/1 brace & 2 bits 2.00/.75
1
jackscrew 5.00/2.50
1 iron homney pesel? .75
1 pr. Stretchers and 2
singletrees 2.00
4 pr. Hames and traces/4 prs. Horsegear 6.00/4.18
2 old axes and 2 old
singletrees 2.00
At sale, 1 pr. Stretchers @ .87 1/4; 2 axes @ 1.20
1 runlet and 8 old
barrels 1.00
At sale, 1 keg @ .58
1 side saddle/1 womans saddle 5.00/1.06 1/4
At sale, saddle bags not listed in inventory @ 1.50
1 noggin with toddy?/waggon with boddy?/1 waggon 50.00/32.50
1 scyth and
cradle 1.00/1.00
1 pr.
Pincers .12
½
1 bed wt. 34 lbs tick and all not shown to
commissioners/1 bedstead/1
table 12.00/1.00/.25
At sale, items not inventory: 1 blind bridle @ .26
1 coverlet @ .86
1 counterpin @ 3.12 ½
1 quilt @ 1.50
1 coverlet @ 5.31
1 quilt @ 1.00
1 tablecloth and counterpin etc. @ 2.12 ½
1 table cover @ 1.02
Total 462.25
Total of sales, including livestock but excluding
slaves = 305.65 ½
1 note on John and Henry Bettes for 150 dollars in
state currency given to Polly James and dated Jan. 6
1823 to become due before the 25th of Dec. 1823
Sum of the appraisements of the slaves that was left
to the widow of Thos. James during her life
1 negro man George, blacksmith, aged about 32
years 800.00/740.00
1 negro woman
Ester/Esther 300.00/315
1 negro woman Charlotte and child Beller/Charlotte &
2 children, Belissa and
Bella 450.00/656.00
1 negro woman Selina and child
Greenville 500.00/653.00
1 negro boy
Wallace 450.00/524.00
1 girl about 6 yrs. Velissa/sold with Charlotte and
Bella 150.00
total 2650.00/2888.00
Oct. 1823
Amount of all sales: 3328.93 ¾
Will of Margaret Kenney
Bourbon Will Book H: 255
May 7, 1829
Written in low state of health but sound mind; pay
just debts; balance of property (real and personal)
to be given to her five daughters, except for a bed
and furniture to Polen? Kenney and the 8 ??? to
Victor Kenney; he also is to keep the negroes till
Xmas; then have a third of the crop. I give Peggy
Kinney $100, and a saddle and Cordee $100 more than
the other three girls, Maria L. Robnett and Abby
Houston and Heleny Johnson, they are to account for
what they have received or give Peggy and Cordee as
much property or money as they have received then
divide equal. Signed with mark. Proved 6 July 1829
p. 269 Inventory
1 panell door cupboard $8.00, one large waiter,
$1.50 9.50
1 bowl of madder, coffee mill and set of knives and
forks 2.75
1 lot dishes and plates and large
bowl 4.25
6 silver tea spoons, a lot of cuupboard
furniture 6.50
1 coffeepot and stand and candlestand 1.25
1 lot smoothing irons, mortar nad pestle, bottles
etc. .621/2
1 square table, flax hackle and looking
glass 2.75
1 desk and bookcase $10, 1 violin and bow
$1.50 11.50
1 large family bible, and 1 lot of
books 5.25
12 yards carpeting $3.50; 1 dining table
$4.00 7.50
1 candlestand .50; 1 sugar desk and sugar
5.00 5.50
1 fancy secretary $15.00; 1 fancy clock,
$20.00 35.00
1 Yankee clock and case $4.00; 15 split bottom
chairs 9.00
1 bedstead, bed and
furniture 15.00
1 old table, $1.75; 6 window lights,
.25 2.00
1 lot rags and loom harness, $3.00 and 1 clothes
press, $3.00 6.00
1 lot flax, wheel, reel, fringe machine and
applecutter 1.50
1 lot old carpetting and
leather 2.00
130 lb wool in the
reel? 20.80
1 square table and knife box, .50; 1 handmilled
p??ks?,
1.00 1.50
1 1 kettle and tallow, 2.00; 1 kitchen cupboard and
iron hoop bucket 1.75
3 large kettles and bails, 4.00; 2 water pails and
meat table 5.20
1 lot pot metal, tea kettle, churn, tub and
keg 4.00
2 pr. Andirons, 3 old shovels, 2.50; 2 pot trammels,
2.00 4.50
3 pr. Trace chains and hames, 7.50; 1 lot of old
iron, 1.75 9.25
1 lot of old bridles, backband etc.; 2 prs of old
stretchers 2.75
1 pr. Stretchers and
singletrees 1.25
Amt. Brought
forward 178.67
½
1 small cairy plow, dung fork, mattock,
etc. 3.00
3 fallen axes, 1 hand axe, and
wedge 2.50
2 shovel plows and clevis, 3.50; 2 big wheels,
1.75 5.25
7 old barrels, half bushel and old
saddle 2.50
1 loom and guide? Wheel, 4.00; 1 iron tooth ?loom?,
2.00 6.00
1 old cart and body, 2.25; 1 brass bit,
.75 3.00
1 shotgun, barrel, powderhorn and brass
mountings 3.00
2 weeding hoes, steelyard, 1.25; 1 cairy plow iron,
1.50 2.75
5 stands of bees, 5.00; 1 cutting box, steel etc.
2.25 7.25
1 yoke and oxens 45.00; hay in the barn
12.50 57.50
Bushels wheat, .50/bu 15.75
1 stack of rye in the barn, 5.50; unbroke flax,
1.75 7.25
1 wheat fan, reddles, pitch fork and 1
barrel 3.50
1 wagon, 35.00; log chain and axe, 2.50; 2 stacks
oat, 10.00 47.50
91 shocks wheat in the field, 10.00; 1 sidesaddle,
5.00 15/00
2 black spotted steers, 10.00; 3 yearlings,
10.00 20.00
4 yearling heifers, 10.00; 1 white back cow and
calf 23.50
1 red cow and calf, 7.50; 1 black cow and calf,
5.00 12.50
1 speckled cow and calf, 8.00; 1 brindle cow and
calf,
9.00 17.00
1 brown cow and calf, 7.50; 1 red whitebacked cow
and calf, 10.00 17.50
1 red lame cow and calf, 8.00; 1 red/white spotted
cow and calf, 7.00 15.00
1 red bell cow and calf, 11.00; 1 dark brown cow,
8.00 19.00
1 bull, 8.00; 1 black bald face mare,
40.00 48.00
1 3yr old bay mare, 47.50; 1 3yr old brown mare,
45.00 92.50
1 brown mare and colt, 75.00; 1 bay Hasham? Mare,
40.00 115.00
1 2yr old brown horse colt, 35.00; 1 2yr old sorrel
horse, 32.50 67.50
1 2yr old brown mare colt, 30.00; 1 yearling colt,
15.00 45.00
45
hogs 74.00
40 sheep, 20.00; 1 biger? Scythe,
.75 20.75
Total
957.67
½
p. 264
Sales
Willis Meier, 2 spades and
irons 1.18
3/4
Victor Kenney, 6
crocks .87
½
Same, 1 churn and
tub .50
John Johnson, 1 pot and
oven .50
Same, bucket, pot and
oven 1.75
V. Kenney, 1 tea
kettle .50
Same, 1 pot
trammel .75
William Branham, 1 pot
trammel 1.37
½
Moses Robnett, 1 pot and
hooks 1.87
½
V. Kenney, 2 large
kettles 1.50
Joseph Kenney, 1 large
kettle 1.50
V. Kenney, 1 kettle and
tallow 2.25
James Cogswell, 1 pair hames and
traces 1.75
Same, one lot of
harness 1.50
Samuel Hedge, haims and
chains 2.00
½
John Johnson, haims and
chains 2.00
Same, 1 pr. Stretchers and
hoe .50
V. Kenney, 1 lot of old
iron 1.00
Same, 2
axes 2.12
½
John Johnson, 1 axe and
wedge .50
V. Kenney, 1 hand
axe 2.00
Same, 1 short
hoe 1.00
John Alexander, 1 grubbing
hoe 1.18 3/4
V. Kenney, 1 shovel plough and
stretchers 2.00
John Johnson, 1 shovel
plough 2.75
V. Kinney, 1
plough 2.50 ½
John Johnson, 1 large
wheel 1.17 ½
Joseph Kenney, 1 large
wheel 1.75
John Johnson, 1 half
bushel 1.62 ½
V. Kenney, 1 lot of
barrels 3.50
John Johnson, 1
loom 7.00
W.W. Branham, 1
harrow 3.81
Peter Sharrer, 1
cart 1.00
V. Kenney, 1 plow irons cary 2.12 ½
Joseph Kenney, 1
sidesaddle 4.50
John Johnson, 1 garden
hoe .81 1/4
Joseph Kenney, 1 pr. Of
steelyards .25
V. Kenney, 6
chairs 4.00
Same, 9
chairs 2.75
Same, 1 dining
table 4.87 ½
John Johnson, knives and
forks 2.50
V. Kenney, plates and
dishes 1.50
John Johnson, 9 breakfast
plates .37 ½
V. Kenney, 6
plates .75
Same, 1 large
dish 1.37 ½
Smae, waiter and tea
ware .87 ½
Same, 1
bowl 1.00
Joseph Kenney, 1 bowl of
madder .25
John Johnson, 6
tumblers .68
Joseph Kenney, ??? .25
V. Kenney, large waiter and small
one 3.25
John Johnson, coffee
pot .37
V. Kenney, coffee
mill .62 ½
Same, 6 silver
spoons 4.37 ½
Moses Robnett, 1 iron and brass
candlestick 1.50
H. Bridges, 1 brass
bit 1.75
Moses Robnett, 1
hackle 1.00
Richard Brand, 1 bottles and
pestle .25
John Johnson, 1
cupboard 4.00
Moses Robnett, 1 shot
gun 3.00
Napoleon Kenney, 1
table 1.06 ½
M. Robnett, 1
bible 2.50
Joseph Kenney, sundry
books 1.25
John Johnson, 1
bookcase 8.00
Joseph Kenney, 12 yds
carpetting 3.25
John Johnson, 1
secretary 12.62 ½
Henry West, 1 sugar
desk 3.25
V. Kenney,
candlestand .50
Joseph Kenney, 1
clock 15.00
John Johnson, 2 bee
hives 6.43 3/4
James M. Cogswell, 3 bee
hives 6.25
V. Kenney, 1 red cow and
calf 10.00
Joseph Kenney, 1
bull 6.75
Samuel Muir, 1 red whiteback
cow 9.95
V. Kenney, 1 bell cow and
calf 13.00
Stephen Hall, 1 black
cow 7.50
John Johnson, 1 brown
cow 9.25
Joseph Kenney, 1 red
cow 8.00
Napoleon Kenney, 1 white back
calf 8.75
W. G. Dayton?, 1 brindle
cow 12.57 ½
Stephen Hall, 1 red spotted
cow 7.50
Silas Hedge,1 spotted cow and
calf 9.00
Joseph Kenney, brown cow and
calf 8.00
Same, 2
heifers 9.00
John L. Hickman, 5 young
steers 27.00
Same, 2
heifers 10.75
Stephen Hall, 10 1st choice
hogs 32.87 ½
Same, 10 2nd choice
hogs 25.00
Same, 10 3rd choice
hogs 20.00
Same 15 last choice
hogs 15.00
John Harriett, 26 sheep in a
lump 17.50
John Johnson, 1 brown mare and
colt 80.00
Thomas Brand, 1 black
mare 37.00
V. Kenney, bay
mare 40.00?
Jas. Davis, 1 bay
mare 34.00
Levy Merdy, 1 brown
filley 41.00
Jacob Smith, 1 sorrel
colt 37.58 ½
Joseph Kenney, 1 brown horse
colt 38.50
Napoleon Kenney, 1 brown
filley 30.00
Jno. Bran?, 1 brown horse and
colt 15.12 ½
John Dykes, 45 shocks of wheat
8.00
John Johnson, 46 shocks 6.25
Napoleon Kenney, 1 cutting
box 4.00
John Mitchell, 1 lot of
hay 61.27 ½
Same, 1 lot of
hay 5.25
V. Kenney, wheat
fan 1.25
Same, 1 pitch
fork 1.00
Joseph Mitchell, 20 bu wheat
@.60/bu 12.00
Same, 11 bu of wheat and
half 6.90
John Johnson, 1 lot of
rye 4.12 ½
V. Kenney, 1 lot of
flax 2.87 ½
M. Robnett, 1
table .62 ½
Granville Allen, 1 lot of
wool 6.06 1/4
Same, 2 lot of
wool 5.56
Turner Wyatt, 1 lot of
leather 2.56
V. Kenney, 1
press 2.00
M. Robnett, harness and reddles 5.00
Arch?? Kenney, 1
carpet .62 ½
Doctor Talliaferro, 1 apple
peeler .20
N. Kenney, 6 doz? Things?, reels,
wheels 1.75
John Johnson, 2 stacks of
oats 11.43
Silas Hedge, 1 filed of
corn 45.00
N. Kenney, 1 field of
corn 40.00
John Clinkenbeard, 1 field of
corn 81.00?
John Alexander, 1
waggon 26.00
Hubbard Taylor, 1 log
chain 2.50
Joseph Kenney, 1 yoke of
steers 65.00
Granville Allen, 1 hand
mill .50
N. Kenney, 1 table, 2 plates and
pitcher 2.00
M. Robnett, 1
fiddle 1.62 ½
N. Kenney, 1 looking
glass .25
Eli Kenney, 1
clock 1.50
Same, 1 kitchen
cupboard 1.39
N. Kenney, 1 meal
tub .12 ½
Moses Robnett, 1 bryce?
Scythe .75
V. Kenney, 4
sheep 9.10
Elizabeth Lair
Bourbon County Will Book C:93
Written 1806
To son Charles Lair: clock for ₤12
stove for ₤2
iron tooth
harrow for ₤1 4s
windmill for ₤7
10s
To son John Lair: a last spring’s colt
which is all the colt I have
His choice of 1
cow & colt
4 sheep
1 breeding sow
To son William: colt (2 years old this spring)
Colt out of
black mare (unborn)
₤5: provisions
for more equitable share by charging rent on
plantation
To daughter Sarah: young bald mare
New
saddle/bridle
2 cows & calves
4 sheep
small wash
kettle
boiling pot
another small
pot
a small oven
one skillet
one pair flat
irons
my potrack
two pewter
dishes
six pewter
basons
twelve pewter
plates
six earthen
plates
six spoons
six tin cups
six knives and
forks
a set of tea
ware
six silver
teaspoons
one big bowl
two small bowls
two glasses
two canisters
a small chest
one large chest
a new spinning
wheel
six towels
six table
cloaths
six sheats
two setts of
curtains, the one calico and the other striped ones
one calico quilt
one double
coverlid
one other
coverlid
a blank et
two bedspreads
a feather bed
underbed
bolster
pillows
one brass
candlestick
Which property is to remain in the hands of son
Charles until Sarah reaches 21 years of age or gets
married and “then gives sufficient security to
indemnify her mother’s estate for any rents which
she has received of her part of the plantation I now
line on.”
To son Joseph: ₤50 which my executor to this my last
will and testament shall pay to hom out of my estate
when he arrives to the age of 21 year with the
lawful interest therein and likewise to give him six
months schooling as soon as may be and also three
months when he arrives to the age of eighteen years
which is to be paid out of my estate by my said exor.”
“My will is that my son Matthias Lair shall live
with and be under the care and direction of son
Charles till he arrives to the age of fourteen years
and in the fifteenth and sixteenth years of his age
he is to be sent to school by my son Charles which
is to paid out of my estate, and after that period
my will is that he be put to some good trade and my
will is that my said executor pay to this my son
Matthias the sum of fifty pounds out of my estate
when he arrives to the age of twenty one years with
the Lawful interest therein.”
Remainder of estate was to be sold with six weeks or
a convenient time after her death with provisions to
pay the heirs as directed in the will. If Elizabeth
dies before reaching her majority, then her dividend
is to be equally divided among the other children.
Acknowledged son Charles debt of ₤88 including what
was devised to him in the will; he was to have the
interest on the debt after her death and could
discharge the debt in any good merchantable
property.
Written 30 January 1806; signed, sealed and
published in presence of George Reading, Carter
Anderson and Catherine C. Kees (Kees signed with a
mark)
Signed with her mark
Proved April 1806
Inventory of estate
Will Book C: 141-145
|
Item |
Value in ₤/s/d |
|
1 brindle cow |
2/8/0 |
|
1 red heifer |
1/4/0 |
|
1 red heifer |
0/18/0 |
|
1 black mare |
24/0/0 |
|
Amount brought forward |
28/10/0 |
|
Amount carried over |
28/10/0 |
|
1 sucking calf at |
6/0/0 |
|
1 bay two year old horse at |
10/0/0 |
|
1 sorrel mare at |
24/0/0 |
|
1 yearling calf at |
7/10/0 |
|
3 heifer calves at |
1/4/0 |
|
1 brindle cow at |
2/14/0 |
|
1 brindle cow at |
2/14/0 |
|
15 sheep at |
4/0/6 |
|
1 sow at 6/; 5 shotes at 1/2/6 |
1/8/6 |
|
4 pigs at 4/; 1 corner cupboard at 6/12/0 |
6/16/0 |
|
1 cherry chest at |
3/0/0 |
|
1 spinning wheel at |
1/1/0 |
|
1 pine box at 2/6; 1 case of bottles at
0/18/0 |
1/0/6 |
|
11 Delf bowls at |
0/17/6 |
|
1 German dish at |
0/2/0 |
|
3 German plates at |
0/2/0 |
|
6 German plates at 6/; 6 German plates at 6/ |
0/12/0 |
|
6 pewter plates at |
0/18/0 |
|
6 pewter plates at |
0/15/6 |
|
2 large pewter dishes & 4 basins at |
2/5/0 |
|
4 basins & 6 plates & 12 spoons at |
3/0/0 |
|
8 tin cups at 6/; 5 tin cups at 2/ |
0/8/0 |
|
1 set knives & forks and |
0/18/0 |
|
5 knives & 7 forks at |
0/6/6 |
|
4 cannisters at |
0/6/0 |
|
3 tumblers at |
0/2/6 |
|
1 teapot & sugar dish at |
0/9/0 |
|
1 set of tea ware at |
0/4/6 |
|
1 set of silver tea spoons at |
1/14/4 |
|
To sundries at |
0/4/6 |
|
1 brass candlestick at |
0/6/0 |
|
3 bottles and 1 jug at |
0/5/0 |
|
1 candlestick at |
0/1/6 |
|
1 pair stillards |
0/18/0 |
|
1 pair of Dog irons at |
0/15/0 |
|
1 shovel and tongs at |
0/7/6 |
|
4 flat irons at |
0/18/0 |
|
1 conk shell at 6/; 3 hackels at 1/16/0 |
2/2/0 |
|
2 ladles and flesh forks |
0/10/0 |
|
2 chards or pair chards |
0/5/0 |
|
1 looking glass at |
0/12/0 |
|
4 books at 7/6 |
0/7/6 |
|
1 bedstead and furniture at |
4/19/6 |
|
1 set of curtains at |
2/2/0 |
|
1 set of curtains at 1/10/0; 1 set of
curtains at 3/12/0 |
5/2/0 |
|
1 chest at |
2/11/0 |
|
1 bed and furniture at |
4/19/6 |
|
1 bed and furniture at 6/12/0; 1 bed and
furniture at 5/12/0 |
12/4/0 |
|
1 bed and furniture at 4/0/0; 1 bed and
furniture at 3/5/0 |
7/5/0 |
|
2 pieces of upper leather at |
1/5/0 |
|
1 pair of saddlebags at |
1/13/0 |
|
1 looking glass at |
1/6/0 |
|
1 wash line at |
0/2/6 |
|
1 bead [bed] spread |
1/4/0 |
|
1 table cloth |
0/4/6 |
|
1 bed slip |
0/10/0 |
|
1 table cloth |
0/5/0 |
|
1 table cloth |
0/3/0 |
|
1 table cloth |
0/4/4 |
|
1 table cloth |
0/3/9 |
|
4 towels at |
0/6/0 |
|
1 sheet |
0/5/6 |
|
1 sheet |
0/6/0 |
|
1 sheet |
0/4/6 |
|
1 sheet |
0/6/0 |
|
1 coverled at 2/6/0; 1 quilt at 1/16/0 |
4/4/0 |
|
1 coverled at 1/7/0; 1 sheet at 0/7/6 |
1/14/6 |
|
1 blanket 1/4/0; 1 tablecloth 3/ |
1/7/0 |
|
1 sheet 4/6; 1 sheet 2/; 1 sheet 2/6 |
0/9/0 |
|
1 bedspread 6/6; 1 sheet at 4/6 |
0/11/0 |
|
1 bedspread 11/0; 1 bedspread at 12/0 |
1/3/0 |
|
1 bedspread at 7/6; 1 bedspread 6/ |
0/13/6 |
|
12 table line [linen?] at 3/; 13 hand towels
15/ |
0/18/0 |
|
1 sheet at 5/6; 1 sheet at 3/ |
0/8/6 |
|
4 pillow slips 18/0; 1 quilt 18/0; quilt 9/0 |
1/15/0 |
|
1 Rose blanket 1/1/0; 1 coverled 12/0 |
1/13/0 |
|
1 sheet 6/; 1 sheet at 3/; 1 sheet at 5/ |
0/14/0 |
|
1 sheet at 6/; 1 blanket at 3/ |
0/9/0 |
|
Loom geers at 6/; 1 loom gears & reed 6/9 |
0/12/9 |
|
1 loom geers at 10/; 1 loom gears & reed 15/ |
1/5/0 |
|
1 loom geers at |
0/6/0 |
|
1 side saddle 3/0/0; 1 side saddle at 5/8/0 |
8/8/0 |
|
1 loom & tackling at |
3/0/0 |
|
1 bucket & tub at |
0/4/6 |
|
1 frying pan at 3/9; 1 bread trough 15/ |
18/9/0 |
|
1 potrack at 12/; 1 pot & skillet at 10/ |
1/2/0 |
|
1 potrack at 6/; 1 ditto at 9/; 1 ditto at
12/ [not clear if these are more potracks or
pots & skillets] |
1/7/0 |
|
1 skillet at 9/; 1 caster & pail 3/ |
0/12/0 |
|
1 skillet at 9/; 1 pail at 1/6 |
0/10/6 |
|
1 kettle at 1/4/0; 1 oven at 10/ |
1/14/0 |
|
1 set of spools at 3/; 1 washing tub at 6/ |
0/9/0 |
|
1 barrel at 3/; 1 tub at 6/ |
0/9/0 |
|
6 old hogsheads at |
0/6/0 |
|
1 tub and churn 6/; 1 Negro woman ₤70 |
70/6/0 |
|
1 Negro boy at ₤40; 1 Negro boy at ₤30 |
70/0/0 |
|
8 chains at ₤1/12/0; 1 table at 6/ |
1/18/0 |
|
Balance due on J. Lair’s Senr.’s bond |
33/19/0 |
|
1 kettle at ₤3; 1 tablecloth at 4/6 |
3/4/6 |
|
1 sheet at 2/; 1 table linen 4/ |
0/6/0 |
James Ruddell
Michael Smith
Joseph Whitesitt
Bourbon County July Court 1806
This Inventory and appraisement of the estate of
Elizabeth Lair deceased was returned into Court and
ordered to be recorded.
Att. Will Garrard Jr. C.B.C.
Mary Markham
Bourbon Will Book F:418
Pay funeral expenses out of estate
1 slave boy Allen to William Smith, eldest son of
Thomas Porter Smith
1 slave boy James to Thomas Porter Smith, Jr., 2nd
and youngest son of T.P. Smith, Sr.
Rest of estate, real and personal, to niece
(Frances?) of Thomas Porter Smith for her life. And
then to heirs by present husband; should she be
widowed and remarried, she loses rights to property
inherited by this will; mentions slaves (unnumbered
and unnamed) to be hired out and proceeds to be used
for benefit of Frances’ children.
Written 13 Nov 1819
Signed her name
Proved June 1821
Fanny Mason
Bourbon Will Book N:55
$1000 paid to three children out of cash and cash
notes: Elizabeth Simpson, Richard E. Maosn and Mary
H.H. Spencer. Remainder of cash and cash notes to
go to son William J. Mason. Son Richard was owed
money by her so she assigned a note on Davis R.
Mason for $600 in c. 1837 to Richard, with security
by William J. Mason; also another note of $100 about
the same time assigned to Richard for “a fictitious
consideration”.
$1000 willed to Richard in first part of will is
intended to cover those notes and whatever amount he
may receive from the notes is to be paid to him out
of the $1000. If amount exceeds $1000, excess is to
be subtracted fro his share of money derived from
sale of her slaves.
Directed slaves to be hired out until grandson Lewis
G. Stone is 21. Gave him $300 provided he make
title to William J. Mason the land that William P.
Stone (husband of dau. Susan) sold to him, William
J. Mason, according to contract; $300 goes to
William J. Mason if land not conveyed. If Lewis G.
Stone dies, slaves are to be divided among children.
Written 17 June 1847
Signed with name
Proved 5 July 1847
No inventory or sales.
Elizabeth Moore
(Elizabeth McClelland Dunlap Kimbro Moore)
Bourbon County Will Book G: 316-317
I, Elizabeth Moore of Bourbon County, being now weak
in body but of sound disposing mind and memory and
being authorized by deed of marriage settlement
between myself and my husband John Moore of one part
and Thomas P. Smith, William Mitchell and Benjamin
Mills as Trustees of the other to appoint the uses,
purposes and ends to which the Estate conveyed by
said deed shall be applied do make the following
appointments and disposition thereof and do divide
it to pass as herein directed.
All the slaves named in said deed of trust which
shall be twenty five years of age are at my decease
to be emancipated and set free by said Trustees
provided however that if any are hired out at my
decease there [their] term of hire is to end before
they are liberated and if the title of all or any of
them is disputed the said Trustees shall retain them
and hire them out till such dispute is settled and
if any of them shall be recovered from said Trustees
and Absalom the son of Nan on Nancy should be so
recovered the said Trustees are directed to
repurchase him out of the funds of my Estate
conveyed to them if said purchase can be made on
reasonable terms, and then to liberate him at the
age of twenty-five years, he being first bound to
learn some good trade. All the rest of my slaves
which shall be under the age of twenty five years,
and are conveyed by said deed or the issue of such
as are conveyed born before my decease shall serve
till the age of twenty five years and then be
emancipated by said Trustees purview that care shall
be taken to learn them to read the scriptures of the
old and new Testament before their emancipation.
The issue of all the females which may be born after
my decease and before their mothers arrive at the
age of twenty five years may be given up to the
county court by said Trustees till they arrive at
the age of twenty five years to be bound out, but
care is to be taken that in their Indentures till
the age of twenty five, as much education was will
learn them to read the scriptures is to be secured
to them and at the end of their Indentures they are
to be free, it being intended that none shall serve
longer. As to the slave Mary who is delicate and a
cripple she is not capable of enjoying her freedom.
I therefore wish her provided for in some humane
family who will treat her well as a servant or to be
sent to her mother who I understand lives in the
state of Ohio to be supported by her and I prefer
the latter course to be taken. The personal Estate,
that is whatever is included in said deed except
Land and slaves I direct to be sold at a reasonable
credit, the farm is to be rented out, and the slaves
hired out which fund so raised I make the following
bequests. My husband John Moore is to be decently
supported out of said fund during his natural life
and is to receive not less than one hundred dollars
in specie per annum. I direct and appoint one
hundred dollars in specie to be paid for the
education of Samuel McClelland Moore infant son of
James Moore which may be placed in the hands of his
uncle John Moore. I direct also one hundred dollars
to be paid to Elizabeth Ardery infant daughter of
Alexander Ardery and to be lodged in safe hands for
her benefit and not in the hands of her Father and I
prefer the hands of John Moore. I direct one hundred
dollars to be paid to Sally Frasier an orphan whom I
have raised and that said Trustees furnish her with
a bed out of the personal Estate in addition to what
I have already given her which is a mare and saddle
and bit. In case the Presbyterian Congregation at
Stoner Mouth shall agree to erect a new church [I]
direct said Trustees to subscribe and put to that
purpose one hundred dollars specie. After these
legacies are paid or secured and contracts about the
Estate so conveyed shall be settled and all debts,
expenses, and reasonable commissions are paid for
the management thereof all the remaining money
arising from slaves or personal Estate, and also the
price of the tract of land which the Trustees may
sell if they find it advantageous, or if not sold
the Land itself in kind I direct and appoint to be
transferred and conveyed to the Trustees of the
Centre College of Kentucky at Danville, provided
said institution is placed under the exclusive
control of the synod of Kentucky as provided by a
late act of the Legislature of Kentucky to be
counted and held as a donation on the part of said
synod. And the said Trustees of the marriage
settlement may endow a professorship or scholarship
by said fund. But if any event should happen which
should prevent the synod from taking the contract
thereof, then the said fund may be transferred by
said Trustees to the corporation which manages the
Theological School at Princeton, or if that
institution should not exist at that time then the
Transfer is to be made to the Trustees of the
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the
United States of America.
And the bequests of money hereby directed I will add
another omitted in its proper place. One hundred
dollars is directed to be appropriated by said
Trustees to the purpose of procuring tombstones for
my mother, my daughter Jane and my husband and
myself.
In testimony whereof I have set my hand and seal
this 23rd of February 1825.
Elizabeth Moore [seal]
Acknowledged in presence of
B. Mills
Wm. Mitchell
Isaac Cook
Joshua Jones
Bourbon County Court October Term 1825
This will and testament of Elizabeth Moore decd was
proved in open court by the oat of Isaac Cook and
Joshua Jones witnesses thereto and is thereupon duly
recorded in my office. Att.
Thos. P. Smith, C.B.C.
By A. C. Dickerson, D.C.
Will Book J: 67-71
Sale of Elizabeth Moore Estate, died Sept. 25, 1825
|
Item |
Buyer |
Price ($) |
|
1 scythe |
William McIlvain |
.50 |
|
1 scythe |
Isaac Cook |
.56 ¼ |
|
2 scythes |
Joshua Barton |
.15 |
|
1 scythe |
McIlvain |
.25 |
|
Grindstone |
William Layson |
.62 ½ |
|
1 Barshare plough |
Hezekiah Martin |
1.68 ¾ |
|
1 Barshare plough |
Joshua Barton |
.41 |
|
1 Shovel plough |
Alvin Barnett |
.53 |
|
1 Shovel plough |
Barnard Vandering |
.41 |
|
1 Barshare plough |
Joshua Barton |
.40 |
|
Pair of stretchers |
Samuel Pyke |
1.04 |
|
1 Barshare plough |
Joshua Barton |
.40 |
|
Pair double trees |
Jackey S. Hitt |
.75 |
|
1 hoe |
Henry Parker |
.25 |
|
2 hoes |
Daniel Trundell |
.39 |
|
Chains, hames & backband |
Daniel Trundell |
1.13 ½ |
|
1 hoe |
Hezekiah Martin |
.13 ½ |
|
Hames and chains |
Benjamin W. Hume |
1.06 ¼ |
|
Hames and chains |
William McIlvain |
.31 ¼ |
|
1 waggon and gear |
Joseph Wallace |
35.00 |
|
9 barrels corn |
John Culbertson |
.61 |
|
Bucket |
Daniel Trundell |
.38 |
|
Log chain |
Mason Hughes |
2.50 |
|
Bucket |
Thomas Current |
.75 |
|
Double tree and chain |
Alvin Barnett |
.25 |
|
Oven and hooks |
Alvin Barnett |
.62 ½ |
|
Oven and lid |
Isaac Ward |
.50 |
|
Kettle and hay bushel |
Hezekiah Martin |
1.76 |
|
Pot |
John Ward |
.56 |
|
Kettle |
Hezekiah Martin |
.61 |
|
Kettle |
Jacob Jones |
3.00 |
|
Churn and piggin |
Alvin Barnett |
.55 |
|
|
Amount brought over |
58.14 ¾ |
|
Big wheel |
Gabriel of colour |
1.12 ½ |
|
3 crocks |
Joshua Barton |
.06 ¼ |
|
Bed, bedstead and furniture |
Thomas Mitchell |
12.00 |
|
Bed, bedstead and furniture |
George Heages |
12.75 |
|
Clock |
George Routt |
8.00 |
|
Folding leaf table |
Dennis Curtis |
1.31 ¼ |
|
10 sheep, first choice |
Abram Moore |
13.25 |
|
10 sheep, 2nd choice |
Joseph Keizer |
11.87 ½ |
|
11 sheep, last choice |
George Routt |
8.62 ½ |
|
Dunn steer |
Abram Moore |
7.25 |
|
White face cow & white face calf |
Abram Moore |
8/56 ¼ |
|
Dark red heifer |
Thomas Champ |
6.37 ½ |
|
Black cow & white face calf |
Abram Moore |
8.06 ¼ |
|
Big red cow white face & calf |
William Dayton |
14.06 ¼ |
|
Red cow white face and calf |
Abram Moore |
6.30 |
|
Light brindle steer |
John Culbertson |
7.12 ½ |
|
Brindle steer |
Elijah Howard |
6.37 ½ |
|
Pide red heifer white |
Gabriel of colour |
3.25 |
|
5 yearlings |
Elijah Howard |
24.50 |
|
Red cow & calf |
Dennis Curtis |
10.00 |
|
Black & white cow one horn |
Michael Woollery |
8.12 ½ |
|
Hogs |
Benjamin Mills |
63.12 ½ |
|
8 volumes Newton’s works (40 cts. per
volume) |
Thomas P. Smith |
3.20 |
|
85 bushels rye at 41 cts per bushel |
Samuel Pyke |
34.85 |
|
Stack of hay next to town |
Hezekiah Martin |
6.01 |
|
Stack of hay next to house |
Daniel Smedley |
4.50 |
|
Half stack |
Barnard Vandering |
2.31 |
|
Stack northeast corner of meadow |
Thomas Champ |
4.00 |
|
Stack next to it |
Hezekiah Martin |
2.25 |
|
Stack next to it |
Hezekiah Martin |
3.03 |
|
Stack next to burnt walnut |
Thomas Champ |
6.25 |
|
Stack pen round it near shellbark hickory
and walnut |
Samuel Pyke |
2.81 |
|
Stack in east side near the woods |
John Ward |
3.56 ¼ |
|
|
Amount brought over |
379.28 ¼ |
|
Hay stack in hollow near small ash |
John Ward |
3.00 |
|
Hay stack fence round it next south fence |
B. Vandering |
2.64 |
|
Hay stack on hill side near an ash & a burnt
stump on the north |
Samuel Pyke |
3.69 |
|
Hay stack northwest of a walnut & west of an
ash |
John Ward |
3.12 |
|
Hay stack near honey locust |
Samuel Pyke |
3.41 |
|
Hay stack southeast of large oak |
Samuel Pyke |
3.04 |
|
Hay stack next to town |
Thomas Champ |
3.25 |
|
Wind mill |
William Layson |
11.45 |
|
Southeast field of corn, 13 acres @
5.50/acre |
Abram Spears |
71.50 |
|
North field of corn, 18 acres @ 4.00/acre |
R. Samuel |
72.00 |
|
West field, 6 acres @ 2.77/acre |
Thomas Latham |
16.62 ½ |
|
Corn in the crib |
James Coons |
16.50 |
|
Roan mare & colt |
Abram Moore |
30.06 ¼ |
|
Young bay horse |
Abram Moore |
40.56 ¼ |
|
Large bay horse |
Hezekiah Martin |
11.15 |
|
Steelyards |
Mason Hughes |
1.75 |
|
Handsaw |
Joseph Ashley |
.39 |
|
Cutting knife |
Stephen Owings |
.50 |
|
Mattock |
Mason Hughes |
1.01 |
|
2 clevises |
Mason Hughes |
1.00 |
|
1 clevis |
Joshua Jones |
.31 ¼ |
|
Drawing knife & clevis |
Mason Hughes |
.57 |
|
2 augers |
Barnard Vandering |
.27 |
|
3 sicles [sickles] & chain |
Henry Woolery |
.27 |
|
Box old irons |
Isaac Ward |
.35 |
|
Coffee mill |
James Ellis |
.65 ½ |
|
Chairs |
Isaac Cook |
1.37 ½ |
|
3 chairs |
Gabriel of colour |
1.43 |
|
Sugar desk |
Stephen Ewing |
1.51 |
|
Desk |
Stephen Ewing |
3.06 ¼ |
|
15 lbs of wool @ 37 ½ cts per lb |
James Smart |
5.62 ½ |
|
Books |
William Mitchell |
.95 |
|
|
Amount brought over |
693.11 ¼ |
|
2 old books |
James Martin |
.31 ¼ |
|
Old books |
James Coons |
.31 ¼ |
|
5 lb rolls at 38 |
Thomas Croswhite |
1.90 |
|
Books & pamphlets |
Barnard Vandering |
.54 |
|
Old books |
Joseph Culbertson |
.12 ½ |
|
Old irons |
S. Owings |
.06 ¼ |
|
Settee |
Stephen Owings |
2.02 |
|
Plank |
William Baker |
2.00 |
|
Dog irons |
William Miller, Jr. |
1.14 |
|
Axe |
B. Vandering |
.25 |
|
Harrow |
Elijah Current |
2.53 |
|
Lot of hemp |
Captain |
.90 |
|
Tub |
Thomas Fisher |
.06 ¼ |
|
Barrel liquor |
Abram Moore |
.50 |
|
Barrel liquor |
William D. Jackson |
.50 |
|
Barrel salt |
Alexander M’Coun [?] |
2.02 |
|
Hemp |
Samuel Stephens |
1.50 |
|
2 Glandered horses to |
Abram Moore |
10.00 |
|
1 small table |
Isaac Ward |
1.00 |
|
181 bushels oats @ 12 ½ |
H. Timberlake |
22/62 ½ |
|
2 bushels corn @ 25 per bushel |
No buyer indicated |
.50 |
|
Sundry small articles bought by |
Moore & Rutter for John Moore, Jr. |
3.87 ½ |
|
13 steers $13.50 and mare $35 to |
John Moore & Alexander Rutter |
48.58 |
|
Ha & rails |
Daniel Smedley |
6.31 ¼ |
|
|
Total |
802.69 ½ |
Thomas P. Smith acting trustee
Commonwealth of Kentucky Bourbon County to wit.
I Thomas P. Smith, Clerk of the County Court for the
county aforesaid do certify that this amount of the
sale of the Estate of Elizabeth Moore deceased was
returned into court and ordered to be recorded
whereupon the same hath been duly admitted to record
in my office. Given under my hand this 7th
day of May 1832.
Thos. P. Smith
By Robt. E. Rankin, D.C.
Additional inventory of the Estate of John &
Elizabeth Moore dec’d.
|
Hire of Jesse for the year 1825 |
30.00 |
|
Hire of Jesse for the year 1826 |
49.50 |
|
Hire of Abigail for the year 1825 |
25.00 |
|
Hire of Abigail for the year 1826 |
13.00 |
|
Hire of Jerry for the year 1825 |
65.62 ½ |
|
Hire of Jerry for the year 1826 |
65.00 |
|
Interest on same |
2.00 |
|
Hire of Jerry for the year 1827 |
31.93 |
|
Hire of Suckey for the year 1825 |
29.37 ½ |
|
Hire of Suckey for the year 1826 |
15.00 |
|
Hire of Suckey for the year 1827 |
18.75 |
|
Hire of Cynthia for the year 1825 |
10.25 |
|
Hire of Cynthia for the year 1826 |
35.00 |
|
Hire of Jemima for the year 1826 |
20.00 |
|
Interest on same |
7.00 |
|
Hire of Captain for the year 1826 |
35.00 |
|
Hire of Monday for the year 1825 |
28.00 |
|
Hire of Monday for the year 1826 |
85.29 |
|
Hire of Tansey for the year 1826 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Lucy for the year 1825 |
30.00 |
|
Hire of Lucy for the year 1826 |
30.00 |
|
Hire of Rhoda for the year 1825 |
22.00 |
|
Hire of Rhoda for the year 1826 |
5.00 |
|
Hire of Anna for the year 1825 |
20.00 |
|
Hire of Anna for the year 1826 |
20.00 |
|
Hire of Mary for the year 1825 |
7.50 |
|
Hire of Mary for the year 1826 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Edmund for the year 1825 |
21.00 |
|
Hire of Edmund for the year 1826 |
25.00 |
|
Hire of Phoebe for the year 1826 |
15.00 |
|
Amount brought over |
775.22 |
|
Hire of Titus for the year 1826 |
52.50 |
|
Hire of Jacob for the year 1826 |
50.00 |
|
Hire of Charles for the year 1825 |
19.25 |
|
Hire of Charles for the year 1826 |
65.00 |
|
Hire of Sam for the year 1825 |
15.00 |
|
Hire of Sam for the year 1826 |
55.00 |
|
Hire of James for the year 1825 |
15.00 |
|
Hire of James for the year 1826 |
35.00 |
|
Interest on same |
3/37 ½ |
|
Hire of Juliann for the year 1825 |
20.00 |
|
Hire of Juliann for the year 1826 |
24.00 |
|
Interest on same |
1.31 ½ |
|
Hire of Rachael for the year 1826 |
5.00 |
|
Hire of Littleton for the year 1826 |
5.00 |
|
Hire of Joe for the year 1825 |
35.00 |
|
Hire of Joe for the year 1826 |
40.00 |
|
Hire of Maria for the year 1825 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Maria for the year 1826 |
15.00 |
|
Interest on same |
.68 ¾ |
|
Hire of Suckey for the year 1826 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Harriott for the year 1826 |
5.00 |
|
Hire of Harriott the Elder for the year 1825 |
20.00 |
|
Hire of Harriott the Elder for the year 1826 |
25.00 |
|
Interest on same |
3.50 |
|
Hire of Peter for the year 1826 |
65.00 |
|
Interest on same |
.25 |
|
Hire of Absalom for the year 1825 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Absalom for the year 1826 |
35.00 |
|
Interest on same |
3.37 ½ |
|
Hire of Absalom for the year 1827 |
40.00 |
|
Interest on same |
1.46 |
|
Hire of Absalom for the year 1828 |
40.00 |
|
Amount brought up |
1499.93 |
|
Hire of Absalom for 1829 |
50.00 |
|
Hire of Absalom for 1830 |
50.00 |
|
Hire of Absalom for 1831 |
50.00 |
|
Hire of Harvey for 1830 |
10.00 |
|
Hire of Harvey for 1831 |
15.00 |
|
John Hughes on Execution |
137.56 ½ |
|
Abram Moore note & interest |
103.50 |
|
Michael Buchanan note & interest |
19.08 |
|
William Rannells note & interest |
17.00 |
|
Newton Forsythe note & interest |
31.93 ¾ |
|
William Alexander note principal & interest |
93.37 ½ |
|
Jefferson Scott for old house |
40.00 |
|
David Clarkson part of note |
10.00 |
|
Jabez Beach on Execution Thomas Morris
against him this was purchased by the
Trustees for which they paid a note of said
Morris for $50 & $98.68 ¾ cash for the
latter of which sum they claim a credit |
170.74 |
|
Cash of Joshua Jones |
.25 |
|
Isaac Ward |
2.11 ½ |
|
John Redmon hire of Charles & Titus 1825 |
8.73 ¾ |
|
Rent of farm from 1st March 1827
to 1st March 1830 at $200 per
annum |
800.00 |
|
Interest on same |
45.19 |
|
Part rent of farm up to first March 1831
when the same was sold |
88.93 |
|
1830 July cash for debt against John Ewalt |
311.00 |
|
1831 March 1st Washington Duncan
first installment for farm sold him |
1143.36 |
|
1832 March 1st Washington Duncan
second payment |
1443.36 |
|
April 19th 1832 |
5841.06 ¾ |
Tho. P. Smith Acting Trustee for J. & E. Moore
Bourbon Deed Book R: 299-300 Marriage contract or
deed of trust between John and Elizabeth Moore
Slaves’ names and ages are given in this document,
filed in 1824.
Jesse 26 yrs
Abigail 25 yrs (children Henry, 6, and
Peter, 2)
Suckey 17 yrs
Cynthia 17 yrs
Jemima 33 yrs
Jinney 22 yrs (not mentioned in
inventory)
Jerry mentioned in inventory but not in marriage
contract; there may be a confusion between Jerry and
Jinney
Amy 37 yrs (not mentioned in
inventory)
Captain 41 yrs (possibly Captain
Davis who purchased Darkey from Thomas Ardery in
1839)
Monday 39 yrs
Tansey 35 yrs
Lucy 31 yrs
Rhoda 22 yrs
Anna 18 yrs
Mary 16 yrs
Edmund 13 yrs
Phoebe 29 yrs (emancipated
by Jacob Lyon in 1838 with Amanda, 12, Judy, 8, and
Polly 4; Lyon bought them Wm. R. Rule who got them
from the Elizabeth Moore Estate)
Titus 27 yrs
Jacob 25 yrs
Charles 23 yrs
Sam 20 yrs
James 13 yrs
Juliann 13 yrs
Rachael 10 yrs
Littleton 7 yrs
Joe 16 yrs
Maria 12 yrs
Suckey (2nd) 10
yrs
Harriott 9 yrs
Harriott the elder 14 yrs
Absalom 10 yrs
(possibly Absalom Kimbro who freed his wife
Elizabeth in 1850; had two children, Henry and
Susan, owned previously
by Thomas Brand)
Harrison 5 yrs (not listed in
inventory; too young to work)
John 2 yrs (ditto)
Amy 7 yrs (not listed in
inventory)
Caroline 9 yrs (not listed in
inventory)
Amanda 8 months (not
listed in inventory)
Harvey not listed in marriage contract
Bourbon manumission book listed Abigail, Daphney,
Jerry, and Jesse as freed by the Moore Estate.
Daphney was inherited by Elizabeth from her mother’s
estate.
Agnes Nesbitt (of Marion
County, Indiana)
Bourbon Will Book
K:405
Freed slave
Jefferson who was being held in bondage under name
of John McNesbitt of Kentucky.
Bed, bedding and
bureau to be divided between James McNesbitt, Maria
Jane Nesbitt and Joanna Nesbitt. Any debts to come
out of Jefferson’s hire before he is freed.
Written 11 June
1836
Signed name
Proved 12 May 1837
No inventory or
sales
Margaret Patton
Bourbon Will Book E:471
Will
Decent Christian burial and
payment of just debts
To infant daughter (unnamed)
Aall and every
species of property@ left her by her husband
John Patton, if child dies without issue,
husband=s property
to return to his heirs; other property she owns
to be returned to her father
Afrom
whence it came@. Proceeds of both to be used to
raised and school her child; appointed her
brother William McClintock executor and guardian
of child.
Written 18 October 1816.
John Patton=s
will was written on July 29, 1816 and proved in
Oct. 1816. Margaret was apparently a second
wife; she was pregnant at the time of
wirting; child born
after writing of will but perhaps just before or
right after his death. Guardians assigned for
all his children
Will Book F:21
Inventory
woman=s
saddle,
bridle 14.00
Pot rack, pot hooks, spider,
wooden bowl and tea kettle
stand 4.00
Knives,
forks 3.00
Bureau 40.00
Dish, plates, cups and saucers,
bowl, etc
4.50
Looking
glass 1.25
Counterpin 10.00
Umbrella 4.00
Quilt, 3
sheets 10.50
Teakettle &
coffeepot 5.50
Bed, bedstead and furniture;
another of the
same 64.00
Spinning
wheel 2.00
Bay
horse 112.00
Apparel of the
deceased 65.00
Quarto
bible 6.00
Pocket
bible 1.50
total 345.25
Negro girl named
Linsey 200.00
Bonnet 2.50
Total 547.75
Will Book F:25
Sales
William
McClintock 2 bundles
cloaths 15.00
Samuel
Oliver skillet and
lid 2.00
David
Nickison bed,
furniture 40.50
John
Becket bed,
furniture 40.50
Sally Patton
counterpin 7.50
William
McClintock
counterpin 6.00
James
Gregg 1
sheet 3.00
Hugh
McClintock 1 pr.
Sheets 3.00
William
Selby 1
blanket 4.25
Joseph
Dunn 1
blanket 4.87 2
James
McDowell 1 pot
tramel 2.37 2
William Ewin
1 set of chairs? Chains? 5.00
Sally
Patton knives and
forks 2.25
John
Hughes coffee
pot .50
Sally
Patton tea
kettle no price
John
McCoy looking
glass 6.12 2
William
McClintock umbrella 4.00
Bernard
Landeria tablecloth 3.80
Samuel
Shrader saddle 10.12 2
William Patton hooks and crevas .75
Lacey
Patton bible
(probably quarto or
both) 8.00
William
McClintock bureau 34.00
Laban
Shipp
horse 140.00
John Foun?
Spinning wheelz 2.20
Total
349.04 2
Husband John had a fairly large
estate; she got a child=s
portion. She was devised the same items listed
in her inventory by her husband=s
estate. Total appraised value of John=s
estate=$3539.66
Sales total not given in book but
calculated to be $9308.55 3/4
At this sale Margaret bought
1
table 5.20
4
crocks .50
17 shocks
corn 8.50
Flax 4.25
Nancy Patton (of Paris)
Bourbon Will Book J:283
Gave everything to sister Rachel Patton, including
interest in slaves
Written 17 July 1833
Signed name
Proved 1 Oct. 1833
Lucy Porter
Bourbon
Will Book M:430
To son, Henry
C. Porter, house and lot where she lives, all
household furniture excluding shop and bake
house.
Emancipate
mulatto man Jeff; freed slave to get shop lying
between her house and house of Mrs. Sidney
Shannon and bake house plus ground on which they
stand; also stables and lots adjoining Abram
Spears, Mrs. Willett and the road. Also the two
carriages, a wagon, and all the horses and gear
harness and other appendages and all
provender/grain. Jeff is to pay all her funeral
expenses and help support her daughter Polly
Cook and her children until children are old
enough to support themselves.
Written 20 Jan
1846
Signed name
Proved 7 April
1846
Jeff
Porter was found in District 1, Bourbon County,
in the 1850 census: 30 yrs old, mulatto, $600 in
real estate, illiterate, working as a
confectioner; living with Cynthia Porter, age
40.
Both Kentucky born.
They were not located in the 1860 census.
Charlotte Pritchard
or Sharlot Prichet
Bourbon Will Book K:360
Will
Written when sick and weak
All perishable part of estate be immediately sold
after death and debts and funeral expenses paid.
Balance to be invested for benefit of heirs
hereafter named.
Her mother is to have use of Matilda during her
natural life and also Malissa til she arrives at the
age of 14 yrs if her mother shall live so long,
provided however that she shall not bring any charge
for the keeping of the rest of Matilda’s children
which I wish my executor to hire out as soon as he
shall think prudent; Malissa also to be hired out
when she reaches 14; money arising therefrom to be
put to interest.
After her mother’s death, all of Charlotte’s estate
to be equally divided among her brothers’ children
and sisters and sisters’ children except those by
bro. John’s last wife, that is to say to brother
William’s three children, James A., Henry R., and
Sally, 1/6 part; to sister Nancy 1/6 part; to
brother John’s five children, John T,. Martha Ann,
James, Edward and Henry, 1/6 part; to sister Mahala,
1/6 part; to sister Francis’ four children, Edward,
James, Eliza J. And John F., 1/6 part and to sister
Elizabeth, 1/6 part.
Signed with mark, 20 July 1836
Proved 6 Feb 1837
p. 365
Sale Bill 18 Feb. 1837
Washington Webb, 1 bay
mare 70.25
Robert Abbott, high post
bedstead 8.00
French Abbott, ½ dox. Windsor
chairs 10.00
Robert Abbott, 1 dining
table 4.37
Margaret M. Reed
Bourbon Will Book K:75
Freed slave woman Aimy if she consented To go to
Liberia and may take any of her children under the
age of 21 years.
Of Aimy’s children under 21 years, all to be freed
at age 21 as long as they go to Liberia.
Aimy and children to be given $100 each. If they do
not consent to go, they remain slaves with proceeds
from their hire to go to grandchildren, Nelson G.,
Maria R., Ellen T., Matilda R., Isabella T. and
Lucretia C. Edwards.
To grandchilrdren: whatever is due from hire of
Peter.
Carriage horse called John to Matilda R.
Mare called Nell to Maria
To dau. Isabell E.J.Clay, all money due from estate
of late son in law, Samuel K. Nelson, or for Negro
hire (except for Peter); all her carriage and all
household furniture.
Isabella to use her money on her children.
Written 13 Oct. 1834; Brutus J. Clay present.
Signed name
Proved 1 Sept 1835
Peter to have $10 of his hire.
Elizabeth Ruddell
Bourbon Will Book E:266
Will
To her 3 children, Stephen, Abraham and Elizabeth
Mulherrin:1 bed each with all appurtenances equally
divided
Also equal division of all household furniture.
To son George: a horse, her bay horse, my ?all cow
or price of said cow
To Black George & Esther: 1 pair shoes each, 1 sow
shoat and corn for their bread for 1 year, 1 soot
(?) Each a piece of the linsey in my possession
Dau. Elizabeth is to see to weaving of the flax and
tow (some already spun) and give George and Esther
“all to what will pay her for her trouble”
Easter Culp witnessed will; postscript gave Easter 1
pair of half soles [soals]
Recorded March 1815
Will Book E:277
Appraisement
1 horse, 2 pairs
gear 55.00
3
cows 32.50
2 ewes, 2
lambs 4.00
Bureau &
bookcase 14.00
4 books
4.00
1 old
desk 3.00
Dishes and
plates 5.00
Tin ware @ 3 3/4; ditto? Ware @
5/3 4.62 ½
scales
weights 4.00
Chains 1.00
Wheels and
churn 2.50
Pot rack, shvels,
tongs 6.50
Hackle 1.00
Castings 17.75
Cupboard/kegs 4.25
Table 2.00
Plough, axe,
etc. 7.75
Hide and
flax 4.25
Reel 87 1/4
Total 174.45
Will Book E:287-288
Sales
Free George plough,
double
trees 8.25
Alexander McClinton big
kettle 5.12 ½
John Mulherrin
small pot 1.50
Joshua Barton big
pot 4.12 ½
William Griffith griddle 37 ½
James Harkins pot
rack 1.90
Stephen Ruddle
pot rack 2.55
John Mulherrin 2 hoes 1.25
Free George
axe 1.87 ½
J. M. 2
barrels .50
S.R. Pewter
dish and
plates 2.00
S.R. Big
dish 3.12 ½
J.M. Tin
ware .26
J.M. Sugar
box .25
J.M. Teakettle 1.50
John Current lantern .61
J.M. Cullender .50
Watering
pot .52
Scales, pan,
etc 2.50
Dirt
ware .54
Jacob Mock flax
wheel 1.62 ½
J.M. Keel
(should be
reel?) 1.25
Warren Bates
big wheel
.50
J.M.
Bureau and book case 18.00
S.R. Dish
(should be
desk?) 5.25
J.M. Cupboard 3.50
Table 2.52
Churn .25
James Hawkins 4
chains 1.80
J.M. Shovel, tongs
etc. 3.75
Hackle 2.27
Cow and
calf 18.50
Charles Jones pide
cow 12.11
James Coons brindle
cow 18.00
S.R. Bay
horse 42.20
Zacharia Jacobs 2 prs
gears 8.75
William Kidwell 2 ewes, 2
lambs 6.00
Samuel Stephens flax 3.81
J.M. Hide
J.M. Small
pot 2.00
p. 470 appears to be duplicate record with addtions;
included
James Hawkins oven 1.00
Walter Hays bought the pide cow instead of Charles
Jones
Sarah D. Scott
Bourbon Will Book N;354
To daughter in law Nancy Scott
during her widowhood, a house and lot in
Harrodsburg purchased of George
Talbott; at her
death or remarriage, house and lot to go to
Nancy=s children,
John W.
And Benjamin F. Scott.
To grandsons William R.
And Joseph Scott, house and lot in Paris
adjacent to house occupied by Peter
Nunemaker on one
side and by Sarah D. Scott on other, the plank
fence across the yard being the division between
the two lots.
To Robert T. Scott: silver
spoons, family bible, 2 doz. Large silver table
spoons marked J.S., 2 doz. Breakfast knives and
forks.
Slave Judy to Elizabeth
Paton if she will
take her and provide such necessaries as her age
requires for her services.
House and lot on corner where she
lives, any money owed her and all other
property/estate be sold and money divided among
grandchildren: Sarah Jane Short, Lucy Jane
Scott, Mary Ann Saunders, Elizabeth Scott, James
Allen Scott,
Pamilia Scott.
Asked that grave be fixed
Aafter the manner of
Mrs. Rebecca Davis@
Written 29 July 1849
Signed with mark
Proved 3 Sept 1849
Elizabeth Sharpe
Bourbon Will Book J:561
Will
To son John Sharp my black boy named Reuben but if
John should die before he receives this bequest,
Reuben to be “returned to my children and equally
divided among them”
to dau. Synthia Write my two black girls named
Lucinda and Beckey; heirs to have residual bequest
after her death. The above slaves not to be
subject to the debts and contracts of F. R. Wright
in no shape whatever.
To son Vincent, my black girl named Lydia
To legal heirs of son, James, decd, named George,
Elizabeth, James and Joseph, my black woman named
Pat and her oldest daughter that I have living with
me now named Kissey except $50 to be equally divided
among them.
To legal heirs of son, Stephen, decd, the $50 I have
reserved out of the price of Pat and her oldest dau.
Kissey to be eqully divided among them as they come
of age
my black girl named Henrietta is to wait on me while
I am alive and at my death I will her to my son
Vincent’s daughter Mary; Vincent to take care of
said slave until Mary comes of age or marries at
which time to return her with her increase if any to
his dau.
Peggy Sharp, my dau. In law is to have my bed and
bedding.
Signed with marked, 14 May 1834
Proved 7 July 1834
Will Book J:571-572
Inventory
1 negro boy named Reuben willed to John
Sharp 475.00
1 negro girl named Lucinda willed to Cynthia
Right 250.00
1 negro girl named Rebecca willed to Cynthia
Right 150.00
1 negro girl named Lydia willed to Vincent
Sharp 275.00
1 negro girl named Pat willed to the heirs of James
Sharp
decd. 200.00
1 negro girl named Kissey willed to James Sharp’s
heirs 350.00
1 negro girl named Henrietta willed to Mary Sharp,
dau. Of Vincent
Sharp 175.00
1 bed and bedding willed to Margaret Sharp, widow of
James
Sharp 20.00
The above property, specific legacies
total 1895.00
Property not willed
1
horse 10.00
1 milch
cow 10.00
2 yearling
steers 10.00
8
shoats 7.00
3 barrels
corn 6.00
127 3/4 lbs
bacon 5.71 1/4
16
geese 2.00
1 note on hand on Jame See due 25 Dec.
1864 20.00
Cash on
hand 7.05
Cupboard
ware 3.00
Amount brought
forward 80.76 1/4
2
chests 2.00
1 small cupboard
2.00
2 basons and bowl .75
Sifter &
tray .50
Lot copper
ware 1.00
Lot pot
metal 2.00
Axe and
singletree .75
Can
soap? .50
Amount Brought
Forward 90.26 1/4
Will Book J:572-573
Sales
Duncan Okichart? 1
pail .25
Henry Bramblet 1
bucket .37
½
Alexander Gillispie 1
churn .43 3/4
John Pu?? 1 tray and
sifter .25
George Frazier 1 coffee
mill .31
1/4
Vincent Sharp 2 basons
and
bowl .50
William Hedges 1 skillet
.68 3/4
George Sharp 1 smoothing
iron and
hooks .62 ½
Same 1 dinner
pot .50
Vincent Sharp 1 large
pot 1.00
Alexander Gillispie 1
kettle .25
Vincent Sharp 1 chopping aze .25
Same
1 swingletree .18 3/4
Same 1 ½ lb.
Leather .37 ½
James Jones 1
chest 1.50
Vincent Sharp 1
chest .50
Dennan Highland 1
cupboard 2.00
Vincent Sharp 1 lot of
cupboard
ware 1.50
Henry Bramblett 1 lot of
cupboard
ware .25
Richard Hanee 1 cream
jug .37
½
Same 1 glass
plate and
tumblers .25
George Sharp 1 bowl
etc. .25
Same 1
coffeepot, knives,
forks .25
James Jones 1 stone
pitcher .25
William Crouch 3
bottles /25
Vincent Sharp 1 stone
jug .37 1/2
James Jones 2 sides
bacon 2.86
Amount Brought
Over 16.63
Alexander Gillaspie
2 sides
bacon 2.16
Vincent Sharp 1 side of
bacon 1.54
George Sharp 2 ½ bu
corn 1.00
James Jones 2 ½ bu
corn 1.00
Alex. Gillispie 2 ½ bu
corn 1.00
James Jones 2 ½ bu
corn 1.00
Vincent Sharp 5 bu
corn 2.00
Nathan Bramblett 16
geese 1.76
Henry Bramblett 8 head
shoats 7.12
½
Same
1 milch
cow 8.93 3/4
George Sharp 2
steers 8.87 ½
??? Wright 1
horse 1.00
Vincent Sharp 1 can
soap .50
Total 54.52 3/4
Elizabeth L. Sims
(of Paris)
Bourbon Will Book N:279
Appointed brother in law Edwin F.
Goddard, her executor, and directed him to sell
her two slaves at end of present year. But they
could have liberty of choosing their homes and
were not to be sold out of the county. Rest of
estate left to her sister
Ellenor M. Goddard with residue to her
children; Acknowledged
their help to her in her difficulties.
Signed name
8 Feb 1847
No inventory or sales
Nancy Speakes
Bourbon Will Book O:64
To nieces Mary Eliza Cline and Caroline Cline,
daughters of David Cline, her woman slave and three
children; woman Matilda and child Elizah to Mary
Eliza; Maria and Jane to Caroline; if either niece
dies, survivors get slaves.
Mary Eliza given bureau
Caroline given quilt
To niece Nancy Thomas Ashford, daughter of Michael
Ashford, bed, bedstead and bedding, green quilt;
old quilts she wants Matilda to keep
Written 2 Oct 1850
Signed with mark
Produced 7 Oct 1850
Elizabeth Spears (of
Boone County, Mo.)
Bourbon Will Book M:213
To heirs of son Solomon Spears,
decd., 1/6 of money now due and what will come
due from son Abram.
To son Noah 1/6 part of money due
from Abram
To Abram 1/6 part of money he
owed her on two obligations executed 8 Dec 1834.
1/6 part to heirs of
dau.
Rebekah
Watson, decd.
1/3 part of this bequest to be
paid to Elizabeth Grimes.
1/6 part to
dau.
Sarah
Jones; also girl slave Sarah and 2 of what
property shall remain.
1/6 part to
dau.
Rachael Johnston; also 3-yr-old girl slave
Martha, until slave reaches 25 yrs.
If Rachael lives that long;
granddaughter Elvina
Thomas to keep slave if Rachael dies; Sarah to
be freed at age 25. I also give her [who
is not specified] 2 of property not otherwise
appropriated.
To William Johnston a boy slave
named Edward until he is 27; reverts to grandson
Jacob S. Johnston if William dies; Edward, now
about 7, to be freed at age 27.
To grandson Noah S. Johnston,
7-yr-old boy named James Ray; to be freed at age
27; John T.M. Johnston is alternate trustee.
After expiration of period for
which servant Isaac is hired to Abram, he is to
be freed.
Emancipated servant
Malinda at date of
decease.
Emancipated servant girl Ellen 2
yrs after death; Ellen to
serve.Rachael Johnston during 2 yr. Term.
No date of writing; signed with
mark.
Produced 23 Jan 1837
Recorded in Missouri, 15 April
1844
Recorded in Bourbon County, 6 May
1844
No inventory or sales
Tabitha Suter
Bourbon Will Book H:501
Will
Written while weak in body but strong in mind. Soul
to God and body to be decently buried.
To youngest daughter, Joann Richards, all my lands
to have and to hold as her own so long as she
remains unmarried at which the lands are to be sold
and the house in which my son Burton Richards now
lives is to be valued and the valuation thereof is
to be paid to him out of the sales of the land. The
ballance of the money is to be equally divided among
the heirs of my estate.
Also to Joann Richards go my two negro slaves, Terry
and Rebecca to have and to hold forever as her own.
Ballance of estate is to be sold and proceeds
divided equally among my children.
Signed 5 May 1828
Proved 5 Sept 1831
Will Book J:25
photocopied
Will Book K:49 Additional Inventory
Interest collected of Burton Richardson sale
note 27.37
Interest received on other sale
notes 1.46
Total 28.83
Elizabeth Ward
Bourbon Will Book G:142
To Dau.
Malinda Morris:
riding mare, bridle/saddle and her colt.
To granddau.
Amanda Bacon: Alikewise
my big trunk to the said
Malinda Morris and all that is in it with
the exception of eight yards of cotton cloth and
a small tin trunk to my granddaughter
Malinda Bacon,
likewise my two blue
coverleds@; unfinished one to
Malinda, other to
Amanda.
To Malinda:
one white cotton
Acounterpin@ with M and O on it
To Amanda: the other middle work
twist counterpin and
a white cotton
counterpin
To Malinda:
5 shirts; a pair of Astourr@?
And one toe (tow?) one; the other 2 a
Ahame made cotton
the other a six hundred flax@ to Amanda.
Likewise 2 check
counterpins the one
a
Acopperous blue@ and
white to Malinda;
Athe other and blue
and white@ to Amanda.
Saddle bags and all that is in
them to Amanda except for blue figured
Abumbasset@ dress
which is to go to Malinda.
10 dox
of 700 flax thread to be divided equally between
son James (crossed out) Ward and
dau.
Malinda
Bill of sale of man Jim now in
possession of Stanly Gour
living in Frankfort; allow him to be sold and
proceeds divided equally between sons Thompson
Ward, James Ward, Joseph Ward, 2
dau.
Patsy
Thornton and Malinda
Morris and Amanda Bacon.
Expenses to be paid out of Jim=s
sale also.
Signed with mark
Written 7 Sept 1823
Codicil: long posted bedstead,
bed bolster, pillows, and two quilts the one
bound? the?
bed and the other
round the bed to Malinda.
1 cedar bucket, 2 glass bottles,
about 2 doz. Vials to
Malinda.
My bandbox and bonnet at Henry
Wilson=s in Paris to
Malinda.
Proved Nov. 1823
No inventory or sales.
Martha Watkins
Bourbon Will Book M:350
To grandson Erasmus D. Isbell: slaves
Henry, Ephraim, Peter, Hetty and all her increase.
To grandson Wittes T. Isbell her
house and lot in Cottontown.
Servant Winey (Winney?) To be freed.
Written 7 Mar 1845
Codicil: gave slave child Ben to
Erasmus; Erasmus also got balance of estate.
Signed with marked.
Proved 1 Sept. 1845.
Winney Webb
Bourbon Will Book G:110-112
Will
Buy a tombstone at value of $200 with other funeral
expenses Asuch as may be suited to my condition in
life@
Executor shall proceed to sell all personal
property, Negroes and wearing apparel Aexcept as
dictated by law in case of Intestates@
To brother Isaac Webb: Negro man Rawley the
blacksmith, negro man David the cooper and Negro men
Jerry and Turner
To nephew James Webb: all land I possess in the
neighborhood of Lexington together with Negro
George, Lucy=s son; my negro woman Cynthia, my negro
woman Clarissa, my negro boy Alexander, my negro
David, Clarissa=s son; and my negro woman Aggy
together with my negroes Phylis, John and Sam; I
also bequeath him a lot of land in the town of
Lexington.
To my nephew Isaac Webb: the tract of land on which
I now reside called Springfield containing about 150
acres; also my negro man Adam and my negro woman
Hannah with her two children George and Sam.
To my nephew Cuthbert Webb: my negro woman Lucy,
Lucky=s daughter with her child Henry and my negros
Noble and Augustus
To my nephew John Webb, my brother Isaac=s son: my
negro woman Nancy, her son Alfred, her son Milton,
her son Sam.
To my niece Winny Scott: my negro man Sam, Cynthia=s
son; my woman Joanna; my negro girl Adela. I
likewise give to her daughter Winney, my negro
Julian; I also give to her son Isaac, my negro boy
John, Cynthia=s son?
To niece Lucy Scott: my negro girl Rachel
To niece Mary Nicholson: my negro girl Amanda and my
negro Boy Hampton
To niece Elizabeth Webb : my negro woman Mill with
her children Mariah and Tammy
To nephew Charles Webb: all the land I purchased of
Leonard Troutman, the house with ten acres around it
excepted, with negro woman Lucy, Lucy=s daughter, my
negro woman Winny, my negro man George (eldest of
the name)
To nephew John Webb, my brother Charles= son: my
negro man Reuben
to nieced Winny Webb: my negro girl Lucy, Hannah=s
daughter and my negro boy Adam, Hannah=s son.
To nephew George Harrison: my negro man Harrison,
and my negro woman Minerva, and to his daughter
Winny I give my negro girl Mary, Minerva=s daughter.
To nephew John Bull, my negro woman Phebe
To niece Frances Fauntleroy $1000 in specie and my
executors are requested to hold the estate together
until she shall receive the money. I also leave her
daughter Winney my negro girl Sydney and my negro
boy Churchill. I likewise give to her daughter
Elizabeth my negro girl Eliza.
To niece Frances Jones during her life or widowhood
the house in which she now resides together with ten
acres around it from Charles Webb=s land and four
from Isaac=s; it is my request that James Webb shall
pay her $30 per year, Matty F. Scott $30, and Isaac
Webb $30 and Charles Webb $10 making in all $100 a
year during her life or widowhood
I bequeath to Louisa and Amanda James, daughters of
my niece Frances James: my negro girl Nancy,
daughter of Hannah. I give also to Elizabeth Jones,
daughter of my niece Frances Jones, my negro woman
Molly.
To Thomas Conn, son of my niece Hetty Conn, my negro
girl Anarchy.
All future increase of slaves bequeathed in will are
to belong to the persons mentioned in the will.
To Mrs. Lucy Webb, my brother=s wife: my new Latin
cardinal and all my caps.
To my nieces Frances Jones and Winny Scott: all the
rest of my wearing apparel.
It is my wish that my negro Rawley who is now
learning the shoemaker=s trade be free at 25 years
of age. Also Mortimer and Sam be free at the same
age and James Webb and Matthew F. Scott should have
the management of them and [train] them to some
trade at a suitable time and receive half the
profits of their labour between the ages of 21 and
25. I also leave old Lucy free to be supported by
Isaac Webb should she not be able to support
herself.
To Williamson Jones, my niece Fanny Jones= son, a
$20 horse. I give my sorrel mare at Mr. Scott=s to
him.
Accounts which Matthew T. Scott shall produce
against my estate shall be admitted.
George Ware, Matthew T. Scott and [blank]
Duen?/Dunn? appointed executors
Written May 10, 1823
Signed with her name
Supplement added: 2 negroes Sidney and Churchill
left in the foregoing will to Winny Fountleroy who
has lately died; Churchill to James Webb and Sidney
to Mrs. Winney Scott is the disposition I now make
of those negroes. Dated August 29, 1823
Produced in court September term 1823
Will Book G: 123
Inventory (groupings indicate persons enumerated on
the same line)
Rawley, a blacksmith aged about 46
years 150.00
Davy, a cooper, 41
years 400.00
Turner, 18
years 400.00
Jerry, 34
yrs. 400.00
George, Lucy=s
son 400.00
Cynthia, Lucy=s
daughter 250.00
Clarissa, Lucy=s
daughter 300.00
Phylis, Lucy=s
daughter 350.00
John, Lucy=s
son 400.00
Sam, Phil=s (Phylis?)
son 100.00
Churchill, Phylis=s
son? 200.00
Alexander, Phylis=s
son? 50.00
Davy, Clarissa=s
son 120.00
Adam, Clarissa=s
son 400.00
Hannah, 28 yrs, Clarissa=s
son 300.00
George, Hannah=s son, 2
yrs. 100.00
Sam, Hannah=s son, 9
months 80.00
Lucy, Sucky=s daughter, 26
yrs. 250.00
Henry, 6 months (probably Lucy=s
son) 40.00
Noble, 9
yrs. 250.00
Augustus, 5
years 150.00
Nancy, 30 yrs (may be mother of Noble and
Augustus) 300.00
Alfred, 6
yrs. 200.00
Miller, 7
yrs 200.00
Sam, 3
yrs. 150.00
William, 21
yrs 400.00
Sam, Cynthia=s son, 17
yrs 400.00
Joanna, 18
yrs 350.00
Adela, 8
yrs. 250.00
Sydney, 12
years 300.00
Julian, 3
years 150.00
John, 3
yrs 125.00
Rachel, 14
yrs. 300.00
Amanda, 14
yrs 300.00
Hampton, 8
yrs 250.00
Milley, 50
yrs? 100.00
Mariah, 13
years 250.00
Sammy, 12
yrs 150.00
Lucy, Lucy=s daughter , 19
yrs 300.00
Winney, 24
yrs. 300.00
Old George, 50
yrs. 150.00
Reuben, 38
yrs. 350.00
Lucy, Hannah=s daughter, 10 yrs
200.00
Adam, Hannah=s son?, 8
yrs 250.00
Harrison, 28 yrs
250.00
Minerva, 27
yrs 300.00
Mary, Minerva=s daughter, 7
years 200.00
Phebe, 33
yrs 300.00
Eliza, 5
yrs. 200.00
Nancy, Hannah=s daughter, 5
yrs. 150.00
Molley and child, 24
yrs 350.00
Rawley, 21
yrs. 400.00
Mortimer, 13
yrs. 300.00
Samson 200.00
Old Lucy, 55
yrs 100.00
Total value of
slaves 13,765.00
Horses viz.
2 carriages, horses @65.00; black mare and twin
colts @
65.00 130.00
Bay mare and mule @ 50.00; gray horse @20.00; bay
mare 6 yrs old
@35.00 105.00
Sorrel mare and colt @60.00; stud colt, 2 yrs. old
@50.00 110.00
Bay mare Verago @30.00; bay horse Buck
@10.00 40.00
Blind mare and whip colt @18.00; bay yearling colt
@15.00 33.00
Sorrel
mare 15.00
Cattle viz.
30 head of
cattle 100.00
28 sheep @ 1.00
ea. 28.00
12 head of hogs 1 yr old and
upwards 6.00
24 head of
pigs 4.00
1 old bedstead and
furniture 40.00
Bureau 8.00
Small
table 1.00
Wash stand and
bowl 2.00
Looking
glass 3.00
cast
andirons .50
1 8 day
clock 70.00
1 large looking
glass 15.00
12 fancy
chairs 16.00
1 breakfast
table 3.00
1 tea board, red
ground 1.00
1 tea board, black
ground .25
1 doz. China cups and
sucers 2.50
2 doz. Liverpool
plates 5.50
1 large china
bowl 1.00
1 large china
bowl .12 2
1
tureen 1.25
2 black tin
teapots 1.50
1 tin
coffeepot .25
2
decanters 1.00
2 green
bottles .60
15 phials of
medicine .75
1 stone jug and
molasses .50
1 earthen jar and sugar; 1 large
crock 1.00
4 patti
pans .25
1 cannister and
pepper .50
1 keg containing bounce 3? 2 pieces linsey yds @
.33 3.00
1 doz. Ivory handled knives and forks & carving
fork 3.00
6 knives and forks, black
handles 1.00
1 dressing
table 1.50
1 doz? Glass
bottles .50
1 bed, bedstead, bolsters and
pillows 12.00
1 bed, bedstead and
bolster 10.00
5?
Blankets 7.50
5 willow
baskets .12 2
3 pr. Wool
cards .75
1 doz
spools .25
3
trunks 4.00
1 new
bedstead 5.50
3 white
counterpanes 15.00
17 cotton sheets; 1 old linen
sheet 20.00
2
quilts 8.00
1 large table
cloth 4.00
1 shot
gun 3.00
Scales and tin/ten
weights .75
Sideboard 35.00
2 end dining
tables 6.00
5 green windsor chairs; 1 green
armchair 3.00
8 white
chairs 5.00
1 pair brass andirons, brass shovel and
tongs 4.00
2
tablecloths 3.50
2 glass
pitchers 1.00
2
decanters 1.00
Set casters and plated
stand 3.00
8 glass mugs and 8 wine
glasses 2.00
12 tumblers; 2 wine
glasses? 3.50
2
salts .50
2 brass candlesticks and 1 pr.
Snuffers 1.25
4 small
plates .25
Old caster stand, 2 bottles and 1
phial .25
Spun
cotton .25
2 2 gal. Bottles filled with
shrub 1.50
2 tea
cannisters .12 2
1 small waiter, red
ground .50
1 small earthen jar full of
coffee .50
2 earthen
jars .25
Sugar loaf
1.50
9 queensware
dishes 3.00
3 vegetable
dishes .37 2
4 deep
plates .37 2
8 queensware
plates .75
11 cups, 6 saucers and 1 cream jug, 1 tea
board 1.50
Sauce
tureen .37 2
2 tin coffee
pots .37 2
pickle tub and
pickles .50
Candle
moulds .37 2
2
pitchers .50
Coffee
mill .75
2
chambers .12 2
1 large earthen
pitcher .06 1/4
knife box, 3 knives and 2 forks
.50
Small keg .06 1/4
4 iron
pots 3.00
1 skillet, 1 griddle and dutch
oven 1.00
1 tea
kettle .75
1 bell mettle
skillet 3.00
3 pr. Pot hooks, trammels and
shovel 3.00
1 10-gal.
Kettle 1.00
1 tripod churn, 4 milk
noggins 1.00
2 buckets, 1
pail 1.00
1 mashing
tub 1.00
1 reel, 2 small and 2 large
wheels 3.00
2 meat tubs and 1 large
tray 1.50
Waggon and set of
gears 40.00
Wheat
fan 8.00
Flax??? 31.00
4 ploughs, 1 pr.
Stretchers 14.00
Log
chain 1.25
4
axes 4.00
5 weeding
hoes 2.00
2 singletrees and lotts old iron, mattock and
scythes 1.00
1 2 barrel
salt 4.50
4 barrels cider not
full 2.00
4 kegs, empty barrels, and candle
box 1.00
4 casks tallow, 16
lbs 1.00
7 silver table
spoons 12.00
6 silver tea
spoons 3.00
2 nutmeg grater, 1 small tin box, 6
penknives .37 2
1 small table cloth and
towel .25
2 tea cadies and sugar full of
tea 2.00
2 pillow cases
.75
6
towels 1.00
5 table
cloths 3.75
1 large damask table
cloth 4.00
10 volumes
books 2.00
Carriage and
harness 150.00
Sleigh 5.00
42 lbs feathers & bag and sheet
7.00
26 lbs wool & bag 5.75
12 yards bed
ticking 6.00
1 small trunk and
??ant 1.00
Steelyards 2.50
Hemp tow woolen
thread 4.50
1 barrel and keg containing wine and 1 pickle
tub 3.00
6 stacks hay on farm near
Lexington 35.00
9 acres corn in the field at farm near
Lexington 45.00
2 old saddle and some small pieces leather & saddle
bags 2.00
Soap .50
Corn in the field supposed 30
acres 45.00
Small quantity unbroke
hemp 4.00kk
Total 1401.87 2
Taken Sept. 15, 1823
Bourbon County Will Book ??, pp. 164-165
Schedule of debts due to the Estate of Winney Webb
Deceased and of the cash on hand at the death of the
said Decedent as well as the aggregate of sales
comprising the whole personal Estate (except slaves)
which have come to the knowledge of the Executor,
viz.
|
Notes on the bank of the commonwealth of
Kentucky in deposit in the Lex. Br. Bank |
611.22 |
|
Cash received from F. Lewis Cashr Lexr. Br.
Bank which had been left with him for safe
keeping |
640.00 |
|
Do. On hand in notes of Bk. Un. States |
110.00 |
|
Do. Do. In specie |
54.35 |
|
Do. Do. In notes of the bank of the Comth.
Of Ky. |
15.15 ¾ |
|
Do. recd. Of B.H. Chinn being amount
collected by him from Metcalf |
40.00 |
|
Balance due by M.S. Scott in account |
22.13 |
|
Amount of sales of the personal Estate made
on the 19th Sept. and 25 October
1823 sd. Acct. filed herewith marked A |
1568.71 ¾ |
|
A judgment of the Clark’s Circuit Court
against Larkin and Nathaniel Dawson Debt
$200 cnts 6 071/100 with Interest from 25
December 1821 |
206.07 ½ |
|
Do. against Larkin Nathaniel and Stephen
Dawson Debt $200 costs 6 67 ½ /100 with
interest from 25 Decr. 1822 |
206.69 |
|
Do. against the same debt $141 25/100 costs
$6 95/100 with interest from 25 Decr. 1820 |
148.70 |
|
Executions issued in the above cases were
returned in the two first “no property
found” the last not returned |
|
|
Do. of the Fayette Circuit Court against
David Presham and Ea.d How debt $150 costs 9
75/100 int. from 25 Decr. 1819. This debt is
entitled to credit for about $20 leaving due |
89.75 |
|
A judgment of the Fayette Circuit Court
against Steven Chipley for $125 with
interest from 18 February 1820 a payment on
acct. of this judgment has been made the
amt. not known |
125.00 |
|
Do. against Thomas Roberts Sr.
Do. against Thomas Roberts Senr. & Jr.
Do. against Thomas Roberts Sr.
Payments had been made on these judgments
leaving a balance now due of a about |
184.80 |
|
Do. against Daniel Halstead debt $191
70/100, costs $8 65 ½ /100. Execution issued
and returned “no property Defendant
considered as insolvent” |
0.00 |
|
Do. against James Conover and S.S. Hoagland
debt $54 25/100 costs 9 27/100 replend |
63.52 |
|
Do. against Ben Stone, adminr of James
Owings Deceased debt $66 costs 9 90 ½ /100
execution issued and returned “no property
found” |
0.00 |
|
Do. of the Harrison Circuit Court against
Geo. W. Timberlake &c for $135 34/100 with
interest from the 11 Novr. 1822 repleved |
135.34 |
|
Amount due from Geo. Webb for money
collected by him from Dawson (see Webb
Letters) |
208.17 |
|
Josiah Brady and Jacob Erwin notes for $35 |
35.00 |
|
Accounts against Josiah Brady $15.56 ¼ .
These debts were due in 1808,1809 and 1810
and debtors believed to be insolvent |
15.56 ¼ |
|
Lewis Hoagins note due in 1818 for $24
(insolvent) |
0.00 |
|
William Theobalds note for a balance of
$52.06 in the hand of R.H. Chinn for
collection; considered insolvent |
0.00 |
|
James Neill’s note due 15 July 1816 for
$100. This debt is entitled to credit for
its amount nearly |
|
|
Henry Chandler’s note due 25 Dec 1822 |
40.00 |
|
George Myres and Peter Shields note Do. |
15.00 |
|
Isaac Sprakes note Do. |
30.00 |
|
Cha. Crow and Samuel Pethington’s note Do. |
30.00 |
|
Richard Pindell’s note Do. |
175.00 |
|
Richard H. Chinn Do. Do. |
25.00 |
|
Thomas Grant Do. Do. |
15.00 |
|
Joseph Singer Do. Do. |
12.00 |
|
Downing, Grant and Dewees Do. Do. |
100.00 |
|
Joe? Wallingsford and E. Yeisers Do.Do. |
100.00 |
|
Edward Stone and B. Kenningham note amt.
April 1824 for specie |
300.00 |
|
John Current and Jacob Smith note due 25
Decr. 1823 for Ky. cury. |
80.00 |
|
Henry Liters note Do. Do. |
12.00 |
|
Henry Bryers note Do. |
40.00 |
|
George Trotters note Do. |
45.00 |
|
William? McIlvain & Co. note Do. |
100.00 |
|
Purnell Bishop’s note for $50 Do. (credit of
$10) |
40.00 |
|
Crosthwait Brand & [illegible] note for $150
Credit of $50 |
100.00 |
|
Henry Babcock Do. |
10.00 |
|
William Montgomery Do. Do. |
115.00 |
|
Thomas McOwat & Co. Do. Do. |
100.00 |
|
George Coons Do. Do. |
35.00 |
|
Thomas Megowan and Jos. Fowlers note Do. |
45.00 |
|
Downing and Grants note Do. |
100.00 |
|
Joseph Singer Do. Do. |
16.00 |
|
Thomas Grant Do. Do. |
30.00 |
|
Thomas McOwat & Co. Do. |
40.00 |
|
Robert Grinsteads note due 25 Decr. 1823 |
40.00 |
|
An account against R. Grinstead payl. In Ky.
Cury. for |
25.00 |
|
McCracons and Gi??? Note due 25 Decr. 1823 |
25.00 |
|
James Schooley &c. note |
20.00 |
|
Thomas Preathers note due 25 Decr. 1823 |
10.00 |
|
Samuel Pyke Do. Do. (pays in Ky cury.) |
50.00 |
|
Thomas P. Smith and H. F. Wilsons note Do.
(pays in Ky. cury.) |
100.00 |
|
George Trotters note Do. (pays in Ky. cury.) |
30.00 |
|
John B. Harbins Do. Do. (pays in Ky. cury.) |
80.00 |
|
Samuel Trotters Do. Do. (pays in Ky. cury.) |
150.00 |
|
Samuel Beck’s note due 25 Decr. 1812 for $15
credited by $6 |
|
|
Walker Buckner’s note 25 Decr. 1821 |
60.00 |
|
Do. Do. Do. 25 Decr. 1822 |
60.00 |
|
Do. Do. Do. 25 Decr. 1823 |
60.00 |
|
William Thomas note due 25 June 1823 |
11.76 |
|
Joseph Conner and Matthew Parrish due 25
Decr. 1814 |
20.00 |
|
A judgment against William Cohill for about
$14 75/100 obtained before M. Elder J.P.
Fayette County |
14.75 |
|
A judgment against Patten for about $6 |
|
M.F. Scott Executor
Of the Estate of Winney Webb
Deceased October 30th 1823
Bourbon County Court January Term 1824
This additional inventory of the Estate of Winney
Webb Deceased being returned into Court is ordered
to be recorded.
Att.
Thos. P. Smith C.B.C.
By Arch. C. Dickerson D.C.
Bourbon County Will Book G, pp. 138-141
Account sales of the personal estate of the late
Winney Webb Deceased 18th September 1823
|
Two buckets, one pale and washing tub |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
.50 |
|
Four knoggins |
M. T. Scott |
.37 ½ |
|
Ten gallon iron kettle |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
.50 |
|
Ten gallon iron pot |
George Harrison |
1.50 |
|
Small pot and skillet of iron and griddle |
Mrs. Frances Jones |
2.50 |
|
Coffee mill |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
.37 ½ |
|
Scales and weights |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
1.00 |
|
Old shovel and pot hooks and
trivet |
Henry Bedford |
1.37 ½ |
|
Pickle tub and churn |
Jonas Markee |
.37 ½ |
|
Eight wine glasses |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
2.00 |
|
Set of casters |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
13.75 |
|
Two glass pitchers |
Dr. H. Innis |
1.62 ½ |
|
Eight glass mugs |
Isaac Webb Senr. |
1.25 |
|
Fourteen glass Tumblers |
Isaac Webb, Senr. |
4.12 ½ |
|
Pair Decanters |
Dr. H. Innis |
3.25 |
|
Salt sellers |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
.50 |
|
Two sets tea china |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
1.37 ½ |
|
Waiter |
Frances Jones |
.62 ½ |
|
One dozen liverpool dinner
plates |
Isaac Webb, Senr. |
3.75 |
|
One dozen liverpool dinner
plates |
George Harrison
|
2.50 |
|
Two bowls china |
Richard Biddle |
1.50 |
|
Four butter plates |
Jacob Troutman |
.25 |
|
A turner |
John Barton |
1.25 |
|
Coffee pot block tin |
Richard Biddle |
.25 |
|
Pair tea pots |
Frances Jones |
1.50 |
|
Two pichers |
John F. Nickols |
.25 |
|
Amount 1st page |
|
38.25 ½ |
|
Old canters two old canisters
two coffee pots and bowl |
William Bridges |
.50 |
|
Red ground tea board 1 doz.
cups and 1 doz. saucers |
Frances Jones |
4.75 |
|
Eight delft plates green edge |
Adam McGun? |
.37 ½ |
|
Lot of dishes delft 3 in
number |
Isaac Webb, Jr. |
2.00 |
Rachel West
(of Paris, advanced in years)
Bourbon Will Book F:264
Will
To son Roger P. West, Slave girl
Vina; all the
arrearages of a legacy of $50/yr. Left her by
her brother James Perry of Maryland. Plus all
that may be coming to her by his will.
Also all that she may receive by
Richard Woolton of
Maryland
And all the rest of her estate.
Signed her name
Written 3 June 1817
Proved May 1819
Polly B. White
Bourbon Will Book M:325
To dau. Eliabeth A. Scott all property and estate
except:
To son John P. White her undivided interest in her
dower right to certain slaves; her riding horse and
secretary.
To dau Louise I. Dickerson, 1 dimity counterpane, 1
Bell metal kettle, 1 hearth rug, 1 tea cannister, 1
set assorted knives and forks, and 1 hymn book.
Confirmed previous release of mortgage on slave
Mariah to son Will J. White
Written 20 April 1844
Signed Name
Proved 4 May 1845
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