Blount County, Tennessee Will Book 1 1799-1856

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This publication contains the COMPLETE text of wills registered in Blount County from 1799-1858 as compiled by WPA Workers **.

Along with the actual will, you will find names of children, spouses, brothers, sisters, aunts, nephews, slaves, aunts, uncles, and friends. No changes have been made … the wills read exactly as written and bring you back to a different era of forethought, understanding, and love.

** WPA Workers
During the Great Depression in the early 1900s, many Americans were given a “job” by the United States Government to support their family. One such “job” was transcribing early court, family, Bible, and cemetery records as well as other local records. Original versions were typed on onion skin paper with “x” number of carbon copies. Although the State Archives owns the vast majority of ‘first’ or typed copy, carbons have circulated for years but are now scattered. Often the typing is not the best and is difficult to read but these valuable records still constitute one of the best sources of information for Tennessee Counties. In many cases, these are all that remain of the original as many county records have been lost. WPA records are generally full text transcription: much larger in scope than an abstraction or summary.

Sample Excerpt

In the name of God, Amen. I Samuel Badgett of the County of Blount and State of Tennessee being of good health and of perfect mind and memory and knowing it is appointed once for all men to die do make and ordain this my last will and Testament disannulling all writings heretofore made by me as touching presents that is to say first I recommend my soul to God who gave it and desire that my body may be buried in a Christian like manner. And as touching such worldly Estate as it hath pleased God to bestow on me I give in manner and form following:

• Item I give unto my brother Abraham Badgett my Negro man Wisley
• Item I give unto my brother Russom Badgett my negro man David
• Item I give until my brother Burwell F. Badgett my negro man Mathew
• Item I give until my brother James Badgett my negro man Lewis
• Item I give unto my Sister Rebecca Horn my negro woman Grace
• Item I give unto my nephew Doncarlos my negro Boy Andrew

I now live likewise I give unto him the said Augustine S. Godfrey my negro girl Mary together with all my stock of every kind also all my household and Kitchen furniture. I appoint my worthy brother Burwell F. Badgett Executor of this my last will ((( continues ))).

Wills

The COMPLETE wills for the following individuals are contained in this publication:

Aikman/Aikiman Allen, Sarah Anderson, Isaac Anderson, James W Armstrong, William Badgett, Samuel Beaty, Arthur Beaty, Robert Bell, George Berry, George Berry, Thomas Black, John Blackburn, Thomas Blair, John Boring, Joshua Bogle, Andrew Bogle, Elizabeth Bogle, M.H. Bogle, Joseph Bogle, Samuel Bowerman, Peter Bowon, William Boyd, William Brannum, David P. Brown, Elijah Caldwell, David Caldwell, Thomas Cameron, Samuel Carruthers, James Cartright, Thomas Carver, Cornelius Carver, Thomas Cawood, Moses Chamberlain, Hannan Chamberlain, Ninian Chandler, Richard Clark, James Clark, Thomas Cochran, James Cochran, Paul Cochran, Silas Colter, Mary Conner, James Conner, Tarence Cooper, Thomas Cope, George Costner, Jacob Coulson, John Coulter, John W. Cowan, Andrew Cox, Henry Criswell, Samuel M. Cummings, Andrew Cummings, Elizabeth Dummings, Elizabeth Davidson, William Davis, James Davis, John Davis, Phillip Debusk, Elias Delzell, John Delzell, Mary Delzell, William Dickson, Robert Dobson, Joseph Duhn, David Duncan, James Duncan, John Duncan, Joseph Duncan, Margaret Dunlap, Adam Dunlap, James Dunlap, William Dyer, Jacob Eagleton, W.W. Eakon, William Edmondson, Benjamin Edmondson, William Endsley, James Ewing, George Erving, John Ewing, Margaret Eagleton, David Farmer, John Ferguson, John Frow, Archibald Gamble, Moses Garner, John Gault, John Gault, William George, Samuel Gillespie, John Gillespie, William Gillispie, Ann Gillispie, John Gillispie, William Glass, Samuel Goodlink, Michel Goodlink, Samuel Grant, John Grear, Margaret Greer, Arthur Greer, Mastan G.

Hackney, Aaron Hackney, Hugh Hackney, Jane Hackney, John Haddin, George Hair, Isaac Hamil, John Hammontree, James Hammontree, John Hanna, John Hannum, Henry Haul, Joel Hamintree, William Hammontree, Jeremiah Henderson, Alexander Henderson, Susannah Henderson, William Henry, Hugh Henshaw, Uriah Hitch, Archible Hitch, Eleven Hogg, James Holloway, Billy Holmes, James Hook, Robert Howard, George Houston, James Houston, John Houston, William Howard, Benj. Hudgens, William Hughes, Robert Hughes, William Hunter, Thomas Jackson, John James, Jessee Jefferies, William Johnson, Joseph Johnston, Francis Jones, Francis Jones, Johnston Jones, Joseph Jones, M.H. Jones, Thomas Keeble, Mary Keeble, William Keen, Inoch Kerby, James Kerby, Richard Kerr, Jesse Kerr, Mary Kerr, Polly Kay, Peter Kirkpatrick, Charles Langford, James Latherdale, Robert Lewis, Thomas Logan, Charles Logan, David Logan, James Long, Henry Love, Jane Love, Robert Love, Samuel Lowry, Jane Lyle, William G. Macklin, William Magee, John Magers, Samuel Malcom, Silas Malcom, Alexander Martin, Jesse Martin, John Martin, Josiah Matison, Margaret Maxwell, John McAlister, John McCallie, John McCarry, Samuel McCartee, Sarah McChesney, Margaret McClain, John McClung, William McClure, Holbert McColm, Alexander McConnell, Jacob McConnell, James McCurdy, Robert McCulloch, John McElwee, Margaret McFaddin, Joseph McGill, Robert McKay, George McLin, William McMurry, Samuel McReynolds, John McReynolds, Joseph McTeer, James McTeer, Martin McTeer, Robert McTeer, William

Meagers, Samuel Means, John Means, William Meer, George Melson, Abraham Mills, Benjamin Mitchell, David Montgomery, J. Montgomery, James Montgomery, Thomas Morton, William Murrin, Robert Murry, Patrick Myers, Phillip Nicholson, John Noblet, Thomas Norton, Alexander Norton, Nancy Norwood, John Orr, Joseph Orr, Robert Owens, David Paxton, John Pesterfield, Henry Pickens, John Plumlee, Stephen Rankin, John Ransbarger, Nancy Ray, William Hamilton Reeves, Elizabeth Rider, John Roddy, James Rogers, Shadrach Rogers, Willeby Russom, John Scott, Robert Scott, William Shanks, Holden Shaw, Francis Simerly, John Simmons, William Singleton, John Singleton, Rebecca Smith, Jacob Smith, John Smith, Winefred Smitzer, Peter Snider, Peter Sterling, Margaret Sterling, Robert Stewart, Alexander Taylor, James Tedford, George Tedford, John Teel, Henry Tharp, Joshua Thomas, Jacob Thompson, Andrew Thompson, David Thompson, John Thompson, Robert L. Tipton, Mashac Tipton, William Torbet, Samuel Townsley, George Trice, James Trundle, James Tuck, Susannah Tulloch, Manges Turk, Thomas Vance, David Vineyard, Tabler Walker, William Wallace, Abraham Wallace, Jesse Wallace, Mathew Wallace, Samuel Wallace, William Warren, Henry Warren, Robert Wear, James Wear, Jonathan Wear, Joseph Wear, Margaret Wear, Samuel Webb, Merry Wear, Thomas Wetzell, Elizabeth Wheeler, Jesse White, Ann White, David White, Gordon White, John White, William Whittenburge, Henry Williams, David Williams, John Williams, Richard Wiggins, Michael Wilson, Alexander Wilson, Robert Wilson, Joseph Witherspoon, James Woods, John Worsham, Allison Wyly, James