Book A, Transcript Page: 432

AT THE RESIDENCE OF M. V. GRAY
MOBILE JULY 9 1864

I desire that my sons Wm. Britt Dempsey Britt & James Britt and my son in Law Wm. Johnson take from my tract of land 100 or 125 acres each and have as they may each make choice of and have the same valued and accounted for according to valueation My wife Mary Britt to control the farm and all pertaining thereto to the best advantage all the expences incurred since my arrest as a prisoner up to the time of my death including including expences whilst in prison attorney fees in obtaining discharge Board &c with Capt. M. V. Gray, medical Bill funeral expences My body to be buried in Mobile & not to be moved.

Witness
B. F. Harrison
L. A. Williams

State of Tennessee )
Carroll County ( August Term 1865

At the above term the of said court the foregoing was probated as the noncupative Will of John Britt Decd which was duly probated and ordered to be recorded. of which the foregoing is a copy Test

W. H. Graves
County Clerk

This text was transcribed by Jere Cox from the typescript entitled Tennessee Records of Carroll County Will Book “A” September, 1822 – 1864 (approximately) created in 1937 under the Works Progress Administration.

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