).**
Slave data was abstracted.
1819
Paid Cole A. Thornton for Bob’s
shoes-$2.00
October-1820
Hire of __ 1819-$55.00
Hire of Alech 1819-$90.00
Bob’s hire in 1820-$60.00
Alech’s hire in 1820-$80.00
5. Walker Thornton-Estates
Settled B-Pages-225-227-Dated the 1st
day of March 1828-Recorded in Bourbon
County-March Term 1828.
The Estate is entitled to the
following credits-By balance in favor of Estate
on the last settlement with County Court on
which no interest is charged me because the
state was in debt and some of the money soon
paid out and it was not known whether the whole
would be needed. I could no and did not get
interest-$$1120.51 ¼
By amount of Note collected of G.
W. Ward due March 1821-$1074.15
By legal interest on same to
March 1828-$451.08
By amount of Note collected of G.
W. Ward due November 1821-$616.36
By legal interest on same to
March 1828-$234.20
By amount of waggon of estate
sold to Bowles due Christmas 1819-$175.00
By legal interest on same to
March 1828-$85.75
By hire of Negro Abel in
1821-$60.00
By hire of same in 1822-$60.00
By hire of same in 1823-$60.00
By hire of same in 1824-$60.00
By hire of same in 1825-$60.00
By hire of same in 1826-$60.00
By hire of same in 1827-$60.00
Total amount-$4177.39 ¼
The Estate of Walker Thornton
deceased in account with John R. Thornton
Administrator.
1822
May-To paid Foras account-$16.25
July-To paid the widow
cash-$15.50
To paid Fee bill-$3.98 ½
August-To paid John Cuny(?)-$2.00
October-To paid the widow
cash-$85.00
1823
January-To paid __ for
Register-$3.00
Feby.-To paid widow cash-$70.00
To paid widow cash for
child-$30.00
April-To paid widow cash-$20.00
To paid fee bills-$2.34
To paid fee bills-$1.75
October-To paid widow cash-$37.50
November-To paid widow
cash-$10.00
1824
January-To paid Foras
account-$4.00
April-To paid widow cash-$80.00
To paid the child Molly
Rootes-$30.00
To paid the widow cash-$90.00
June-To paid Bowles cash-$5.00
Dec.-To paid widow cash-$15.00
1825
January-To paid widow cash-$30.00
To paid for Luminary-$3.00
April-To paid fee to Richard
Chinn-$20.00
May-To paid for the child Molly
Roots-$15.00
To paid widow for herself-$20.00
July-To paid Kana(?)
Commissiomers-$7.50
Sept.-To paid the widow cash for
child-$15.00
Oct.-To paid the widow
cash-$11.00
To paid fee bills to
Beasley-$2.05
1826
Jany.-To widow for Cash-$30.00
May-To widow for cash-$10.00
To paid John R. Price in part
decree of Fayette Circuit Court-$150.00
To paid fee bill-$0.43
To paid fee bills-$2.19
Sept.-To paid widow cash-$15.00
1827
Jany.-To paid your account
McJlovain(?) & Jolly-$6.50
Feby-To paid your account to
Sherman-$5.50
To paid widow for self-$32.25
To paid widow for child-$32.25
April-To paid tuition Molly
Rootes-$8.25
June 11-To paid John R. Price
balance in decree of Fayette Circuit
Court-$164.75
1827-To amount Brought
up-$1102.12 ½
To paid widows account at Brent‘s
omitted in 1826-$3.00
Sept.-To paid Molly Rootes
tuition-$8.00
Dec.-To paid her account with
Kelly Payne-$12.87 ½
To paid board of widow for
herself and child in the course of 1829 fifty
eight dollars and twenty five-$96.25
1828
Feby-To paid widow and
child-$110.50
To paid fee bill to clerk-$0.86
Allowance to Administrator for
personal Expense in attending to and managing
estate-$150.00
Amount Credits-$1577.02
Amount Received by
Administor-$4177.02
Expensed by him-$1577.02
Balanced in his hands this first
day of March 1828-$2600.31
Bourbon County Sct.
Being first duly sworn I have
made the a foregoing Statement of accounts and
statements of the estate of Walker Thornton
deceased and find in the hands of said John R.
Thornton the above balance of two thousand sex
hundred dollars and thirty seven cents witness
my hand this first day of March 1828.
Tho. P. Smith
Bourbon County Court March Term
1828. This settlement on the accounts of Walker
Thornton deceased being returned into court and
approved is ordered recorded.
Att,
Tho. P. Smith C. B. C. C.
6. Walker Thornton-Estates
Settled B-Pages-468-470-Dated the 17th
day of March 1828-Recorded in Bourbon County-4th
day of April 1831.
1826 Aug. 1st-To paid
to the order of Mrs. Thornton the widow in favor
of Lewis Thornton for four hundred dollars which
ought to have been credited to me at this date
on my last settlement with the County Court but
was not and which with the interest up to March
first 1828. The date of my last settlement with
the County Court amounts to four hundred and
sixty-two dollars and which ought to be taken
from the ball and against one on said last
settlement and now charged to the estate leaving
the balance against me of $2158.00 as will be
seen credited to the estate.-$462.00
1828 Mar.-To clerks fee
bill-$2.05
April-To trustees Berean Simnary
for daughters tuition-$11.25
Oct.-To paid widow and Daughters
account to Kelly-$31.91
1829 Jan.-To board of widow and
Daughter last fall with Chris Barbee-$37.50
Sept.-To paid widow for herself
last year $45.00 and for daughter Molly eight
dollars twelve and half cents-$50.67 ½.
Aug.-To paid Rev John Todd for
board & tuition daughter this year-$35.00
Sept.-To paid widow for herself
$34.50 and Daughter five dollars-$39.50
Apl.-To paid Tho. P. Smiths
daughter subscription for Pedro Baptist-$1.00
1830 Jan.-To paid amount of widow
and daughter to Kelly for merchandise-$48.00
Mar.-To paid widow for herself
$10.00 and daughter five dollars-$15.00
Mar.-To paid Rev John Todd for
board & tuition Daughter for this session ending
March 1830-$40.00
To paid widow and daughter
postage account-$1.36 ½
Nov.-To paid Rev John Todd for
board & tuition daughter this year-$39.50
To paid widow for herself-$15.00
and for her daughter $9.25-$24.25
1831 Jany-To paid widow &
daughters account to Hughart & Warfield for last
year-$34.97
To amount brought over-$431.98 ½
1828 Mar.-The estate is entitled
to credits as follows:
By the balance against me as
appears on my settlement of this state with the
County Court after deducting four hundred and
sixty two dollars which ought then to have been
credited to me being a payment to the widow on
her order to Lewis Thornton dated August 1825
and which with its interest to this date was
improperly to me and leaves the proper balance
against me of $2138.00 at my last settlement
with the County Court.
By interest on sale balance from
this date to Match 1st 1831
By hire of negro Abel in
1828-$60.00
By hire of negro Abel in
1829-$60.00
By hire of negro Abel in
1830-$60.00
Bourbon County Sct
I Thomas P. Smith being sworn
proceeded pursuant to an order of the Bourbon
County Court to settle the estate of Walker
Thornton deceased and find in the hands of John
R. Thornton Administrator the sum of twenty one
hundred and thirty eight dollars as is stated in
the foregoing account. Witness my hand and seal
this seventeenth day of March eighteen hundred
and thirty one.
Tho. P. Smith
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
Bourbon County To Wit I Thomas P. Smith clerk of
the County Court for the aforesaid do certify
that this settlement of the estate of Walker
Thornton deceased was returned into court
approved of and ordered to be recorded.
Whereupon the same hath been duly admitted to
record in my office. Given under my hand this 4th
day of April 1831.
Tho. P. Smith
By: Robert E. Rankin, D. C.
7. Walker
Thornton-Estates Settled C-Vol
ll-Pages-325-326-Dated the 17th
day of March 1828-Recorded in Bourbon
County-4th day of April 1831.A
Settlement of the amounts of John R.
Thornton Administrator of the Estate of
Walker Thornton dec’d. Said Administrator.
1831 Mar 1-To balance in the
hands of Administrator at the last
settlement-$2140.00
Hire of negro man Abel for
1831-$60.00
1832 Mar 1-Interest on said
balance to this date-$128.40
Hire of negro man Abel for
1832-$60.00
1833 Mar 1-Interest on said
balance to this date-$128.40
Hire of negro man Abel for
1833-$60.00
1834 Mar 1-Interest on said
balance to this date-$128.40
Payment on part of __ yard in
claim set’d.-$100.00
Hire of Abel for
1834-$60.00
1835 Mar 1-Interest on said
balance to this date-$128.40
Balance received for __
yard-$50.00
Hire of negro Abel for
1835-$67.50
1836 Mar 1-Interest on said
__ to this date-$128.40
Interest over 6 percent
rec’d. to this date-$62.00
Total-$3363.50
Credits
1832 Mar 1-To widow and
Daughter cash for recp.-$188.40
1833 Feb 7-James
Hushart-merdz.-$109.06
Mar 6-T & W Kelly-Do-$140.71
T. P. Smith for hire
1831-$1.68
E. Skillman-Luminary-$2.50
James Paton-postage-$1.92
Same-do-$1.79
Same-do-$0.57
Nov 6-Widow &
Daughter-cash-$65.13
Nov 8-Widow-do-$5.00
Total-$516.76
Dec 19-James
Hughart-mdz.-$65.00
1834 Mar 4-Same-$73.90
Mar 25-Widow &
Daughter-cash-$30.00
Mar 14-James
Paton-postage-$0.70
May-Widow--cash-$20.00
July-James
Paton-postage-$0.39
Mary R. Thornton-cash-$12.50
Nov 10-George
Snyder-Mdz.-$10.77
1835 Jan 24-Hu. J.
Brent-do-$21.56
Jan 27-Wright &
Coates-do-$50.96
James Paton-postage-0.67
Feb-Mary R.
Thornton-cash-$26.50
James Paton-postage-$0.76
Same-do-$1.70
May-Widow-cash-$20.00
June-Mary R.
Thornton-do-$21.81
James Paton-postage-$1.03
Sep 9-Widow for Anthony
Thornton-cash$8.75
Sep 10-Keiningham
Ellis-mdz-$31.04
Mary R.
Thornton-saddle-$18.00
Oct 23-W. D.
Griffing(?)-saddle cloth-$3.50
Dec 14-L. G.
Ray-medical-$2.50
Dec 22-Mary R.
Thornton-cash-$30.00
Sarah Thornton-do-$20.00
James Hughart-mdz.-$151.26
1836-James Paton-postage-1.39
Apr. 14-A. T.
William-Luminary-$5.62
C. E. Williams-medical-$10.00
Williams & Ingels-do-$5.00
June 3-Widow-cash-$30.50
Mary R. Thornton-do-$20.50
Commissioners making this
settlement-$3.00
Total-$1222.07
Total-$2141.43
Bourbon County Sct.
We the suboinbrs(?) have
stated and settled the amounts of Jn. R.
Thornton Administrator of Walker Thornton
dec’d as annisad(?) and find in the hands of
the said administrator the sum of twenty one
hundred and forty one dollars forty three
cents. The administrator in this case named
any claims for compensation for his
services. On reference to the report in the
last settlement, it shows a balance against
the administrator as being two dollars less
than the amount assumed on this account,
which makes the balance now in the hands of
said administrator twenty one hundred and
thirty nine dollars and forty three cents.
The Distributors resident in this county __
noted in writing which accompanies this with
the vouchers.
Given under our hands this
sixth day of June 1836
Wm. Hickman
Tho. P. Smith
At the July term of the
County Court of Bourbon County Kentucky on
the fourth day of July 1836. This settlement
of the Estate of Walker Thornton deceased
having been returned at the last court and
ordered to be over, is this day examined,
approved of and ordered to record.
Witness Thomas P. Smith clerk
of said court the date above.
Tho. P. Smith Clk.
8. Walker Thornton-Estates
Settled D-Pages-110-111-Dated the 28th
day of January 1840-Recorded in Bourbon
County-2nd day of March 1840.
John R. Thornton
Administrator of Walker Thornton deceased
1836 June 6th-To
balance due on settlement to this
date-$2139.43
To amount & add
Inventory-$413.00
Total amount-$2252.43
Credits
By the following expenditures
To wit:
1836-John B. Raine-tax-$1.40
July-Tho. P. Smith-clerks
fee-$2.00
1837 Mar 7-Hughart &
Dickerson-medse-$179.66
Mar 20-Mary R.
Thornton-cash-$19.37
Oct. 4-Sarah Thornton
widow-do-$32.00
1838 Ma 15-James
Hughart-medse-$165.50
Jany 1-Charles E.
Williams-medical-$3.00
Dec 4-W.
Alexander-medse-$136.32
L. W. Taylor-Fee bill-$0.75
L. W. Taylor-Fee bill-$0.75
L. W. Taylor-Fee bill-$1.25
L. W. Taylor-Fee bill-$0.75
J. Paton-postage-$1.68
J. Paton-postage-$2.15
J. Paton-postage-$1.18
J. Paton-postage-$2.15
J. Paton-postage-$2.40
J. Paton-postage-$1.17
Mar 8-Joseph Stephens for M.
R. Thornton-med-$22.75
Sept 12-M. R.
Thornton-cash-$10.00
Sarah Thornton
widow-do-$10.00
C. W. James-newspaper-$6.00
Dec 26-John Montgomery for M.
R. T. for college(?)-$2.00
John B. Raine-tax 1838-$4.18
1838 Jany 21-M. R.
Thornton-cash-120.00
Sarah Thornton
widow-do-$80.00
Feb 20-Mary R. Thornton
Daughter-do-$70.00
Amt. forward-$878.82
To amount brought
forward-$3252.43
By amt. of Credits brought
forward-$878.82
1839 Apr. 2- M.R.
Thornton-Do-cash-$100.00
O. Hughes-postage-$1.23
O. Hughes-postage-$5.36
Oct. 11-Mrs. M. R.
McAboy-Do-cash-$100.00
Mrs. Sarah
Thornton-widow-do-$50.00
Tho. C. Bledsoe-tax
1839-$4.23
John B. Raine-tax 1837-$1.40
Commissioners for
settling-$3.00
Thomas P. Smith-Clerk’s
fees-$2.00 ($1146.03)
Total amount-$2106.40
Bourbon County Sct.
We have stated and settled
the account of John R. Thornton adm. Of
Walker Thornton Deceased and find the above
balance to be in the hands of the Adm. Given
under our hands this 28th of
January 1840.
Tho. Y. Brent
Tho. P. Smith
Being appointed by the
Bourbon County Court we have made the
following Division to wit:
To Mrs. Sarah R. Thornton the
widow-$903.20
To Mrs. M. R. McAboy the
daughter-$1203.20 (2106.40)
Tho. Y. Brent
Tho. P. Smith
At the March Term of County
Court of Bourbon Co., Kentucky on the second
day of March 1840. This settlement of the
Estate of Walker Thornton dec’d which was
returned at the last Court and ordered to be
over was this day examined approved of and
ordered to record.
Witness Thomas P. Smith Clerk
of said Court the date above.
Tho. P. Smith clk.
9. Walker Thornton-Estates
Settled D-Page-195-Dated the 25th
day of August 1841-Recorded in Bourbon
County-4th day of October 1841.
John R. Thornton
Administrator of Walker Thornton Dec’d.
To balance in his hands on
last settlement made the 28th
January 1840 of $2116.40
Credit
1840 Dec 15-By Mrs. Sarah R.
Thornton the widow-$903.20
By Mrs. M. R. McAboy the
daughter-$1203.20 (2106.40)
In the above receipts the
interest is accounted for from the date of
last Settlement to date of Receipt. The
administrator also produced the Receipt of
the widow and daughter of the decedent for a
negro man named Abel.
Bourbon County Sct.
We have stated and settled
the accounts that he has paid over said
Estate to the persons entitled. Given under
our hands this 25th day August
1841.
Tho. Y. Brent
Tho. P. Smith
At the October Term of the
County Court of Bourbon County Kentucky On
the 4th day of October 1841. This
settlement of the Estate of Walker Thornton
dec’d which was ordered at the last court
and ordered to be over was this day Examined
approved of and ordered to record. Witness
Thomas P. Smith Clerk of said court the date
above.
Tho. P. Smith Clk.
By R. J. Brown, D. C.