Book A, Transcript Page: 357<\/p>\n
In the name of God Amen
\nI Wm. B. Price of Carroll County Tennessee make and ordain this my last will and Testament.
\nFirst I wish my burial Expences and debts paid.
\nSecond I leave my daughter Jane O McLean the following slaves Nelson Emeline & her increase Louisa & her increase & a Negro Boy Jin during the life of my Daughter Jane A. Mc Lean & at her death to her children & their heirs forever.
\nThird. I lend to my daughter Amanda C. Price the following slaves Levi & Charles Frank a Boy Julia & her Children & her future increase during the life of my daughter Amanda C. Price & at her death to her children and their heirs forever.
\nFourth I give to my son Wm. B. Price to him & his heirs forever the following slaves Pinckney Alfred and Nancy & her increase also a sorrell colt named Cate I also give my son Wm. P. S. Price my present tract of land whereon I now live to him and his heirs forever. I desire the land to be rented out untill Wm. P. S. Price shall have attained to the age of 21 years & the proceeds of the rent to go towards the board & Education of Wm. P. S. Price and Amanda C. Price untill shall otherwise dispose of herself I desire she shall have a home in my house my large silver table spoons I desire Amanda C. Price to have (they were her mothers and was her request). My silver desert and tea spoons I give to Wm. P. S. Price my beds and furniture my house hold and kitchen utensils I wish equally divided between Amanda C. Price & Wm P. S. Price my two children my stock of every discription and plantation affairs of every kind I wish equally divided between my daughter Jane O. McLean Amanda C. Price & Wm. P. S. Price my crops of every discription on my plantation I wish also equally divided among my three children above enumerated all money that may be on hand at my death or bonds or notes that may be due me I wish divided equally between Amanda C. Price & Wm. P. S. Price my two children I leave Enisly N. McLean my Executor to this my last will and testament In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my hand & affixed my seal this 22nd day of March 1859.<\/p>\n
Wm. B. Price (Seal)<\/p>\n
Witness B. T. Hilsman John M. Hart.<\/p>\n
State of Tennessee )
\nCarroll County ( September Term 1860<\/p>\n
The above and foregoing will was probated by B. T. Helsman and ordered to be recorded.<\/p>\n
This text was transcribed by Jere Cox from the typescript entitled Tennessee Records of Carroll County Will Book “A” September, 1822 – 1864 (approximately)<\/em> created in 1937 under the Works Progress Administration.<\/p>\n Corresponding Resource: FamilySearch has a microfilm copy of the WPA transcript of Will Book A available to view on-line (click here<\/a>). A free FamilySearch login is required to view microfilm.<\/strong><\/p>\n Jere Cox was an early Carroll County TNGenWeb coordinator. We do not intend to violate Jere’s copyright interests by including the transcription here, but we want to make sure his efforts remain available for future researchers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Book A, Transcript Page: 357 In the name of God Amen I Wm. B. Price of Carroll County Tennessee make and ordain this my last will and Testament. First I wish my burial Expences and debts paid. Second I leave …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american","category-wills-probate-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2047,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2046\/revisions\/2047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/carroll\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}