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This publication includes the full text of each will along with the inventory and includes everything from bequeaths of land, homes, and livestock to beds, pots, pans, and clothing.
Reading these wills is like taking a trip to another place, another time. Here’s an example (spelling errors left intact):
“Isaac ROBERTS has fourteen negroes, fourteen horses, thirty head of cattle, fifty-one head of sheep, two hundred and fifty hogs, one yoke oven, one wagon, eight feather beds, and furnishture – three tables, one bureau, one dish, one book case, one cupboard, and furniture, one dozen chairs, one candlestick, one chest, one duch wheat fan, five plows, one iron harrow, six axes, seven hoes, one large crib, one loom, three wheels, three thousand pounds of pork, two kettle, five potts, five ovens, one saw mill irons, one coss-cut saw, one handsaw, a few other tools, one large bible, a few other books, eight hundred dollars, one compass and surveying instruments, one brass pistol, one sword, one saddle, one pare saddle bags, three bridles, one broad axe, two stone hammbers, two grubbing hoes, two hundred weight of lard, one note – it $37.50.
Wills and inventory of the following individuals are contained in this volume. Please remember: names of children, spouses, aunts, uncles, cousins, neighbors, slaves, friends, and more are included in these wills.
Jane Adkins, William Adkins, John Alderson, Aron Aldridge, Ezekiel Alexander, Moses Alexander, John Asche, John Askew, John Askins, Mitan Atheny
Edward Beanland, William Bradshaw, Drury Bridges, Samuel Brooks, Jonathan Broom, Jessee Brown, Jethro Brown, James Burns, Lawrence Burns, William Bynum
James Campbell, John Campbell, William Can, Moses Chafin, Isham Christian, Epriam Churchwell, Charles Coats, David Copeland, Thomas Cox, John Craig, Thomas Crawford
John Davidson, Daniel Davis, William Dean, Joseph Denton, William Depriest, Tyre Dollins, Joseph Dyal
Thomas Edwards, Dr. L.B. Estes
Thomas Fore, Louis Forkner, Robert Foster, Theophelas Frame, Joshua Fryerson, Samuel Fryerson
Jesse Gant, William Gant, Balias Gediers, Andrew Goforth, John M. Goodloe, Mary Green, William Green, William Grimes, Jeremiah Gurley
N.P. Hardeman, William Hawkins, Jesse Hays, Wilson Henderson, David Hines, Agnes Hoge (Hodge), Enos Holland
Charles Isham, Jonathan Isham, John Isom
John Jack, John Jacbos, John Jenkins, John Jinkins, John Johnson, James Johnston, Robert Johnston, David Jones, William Jones, John Joyle
William Kelly, Abner King, Patience Kirk, James Kindrick, Gideon Kirksay, James Knox
Thomas Ladd, Joseph Landford, Obediah Langston, Thomas Laremore, Henry Leech, Ezekiel Lindsay, John Joseph Long, William Long, Harry Luck, Robert Lumpkins
Robert McCain, Donald McDonald, Ann McIntire, Jacob McKee, William McLean, James McMahon
William Minniffee, John Muse
Robert Neely, Osburn P. Nicholson, Daniel Niel
Marmaduke O’Neal, David Oglevie, James Oglesby
Thomas Parker, Lock Partee, Abrham Pickens, Thomas Powel, Charles Powel(l)
Elisha Rhoads, Asa Richardson, Thomas Richardson, Joseph Robb, Isaac Roberts, John Record, Hugh Ross
Joseph Sandford, Samuel Scott, Patience Sellars, Hetty Shearmon, Thomas Shelby, Benjamin Shipley, Samuel Shrigley, Nathan Sunderland, John Sutherland
William Tony, James Trousdale, James Turner, Nancy Turner
Daniel Yates
Dabney Wade, Washington Walker, Mary Ward, John J. Webb, William Williams, Samuel Willis, William Winns
