Davidson County, Will Book 3, p. 70, January 1807

Jacob Hunter Dec'd. his inventory returned into court at January sessions 1807 to wit:

Five head of horse, eleven head of cattle, a quantity of hogs, three head of sheep, Four geese, ten ducks,

a quantity of wart hogs, we know not how many, One cart, one wagon, three saddles, two plows,

three hoes and hand saw, Two augers, one drawing knife, one foot adze,

two plains, one chisel, one set of double trees, Two cliveces, one club ax, one iron wedge,

wo pair of gears, two pots, one kettle, one tea kettle,

Two pair of pot hooks, one pair fire tongs, two reap hooks, a case of razors, one slate,

one rifle gun & shot pouch, seven books, one coffee mill, one looking glass,

two smithing irons, pair of sheep shears, four bottles, four vials, six pewter plates, two pewter basins,

two pewter dishes, thirteen pewter spoons, six knives and six forks, one butcher knife, ten dish plates,

half a dozen cups and saucers, one Delf mug, one pitcher, one coffee pot, cream pot, eight glass tumblers,

one wine glass, one sugar dish, one pepper box, five tin cups, seven teaspoons, one salt sellar,

one candle stick, one cork screw, one pair sifters, two pair of cards, two wheels, one loom,

two slays, pair of harnesses, one dozen chairs, one table, four bedsteads, three beds, & furniture,

one fine comb, one branding iron, two pails three piggins, one basket, one chair,

one washing tool, three hogheads, one pickling tub, four tote casks, two small files, one steel spindle,

one padlock, a quantity of leather, one rawhide, one oven & lid, a quantity of bridle buckles,

four iron boxes, and five iron bands, one fish gigue, pair of saddle bags, three bells, pair of compasses,

one wooden square and gauge, a quantity of tallow, one grind stone, two bridles, one curricomb,

one hammer and chist,

one note of one hundred & fifty dollars which was due January 1804,

one hundred and five dollars now in hand,

fifty dollars which is to be paid in carpenters work,

one open account of 3 dollars 38 1/3 cents and quantity of corn.

Polly Hunter Administratrix

Braxton Lee, Administrator

Davidson County, Will Book 3, Page 159, April 1807

Jacob Hunter Dec'd. An inventory of the sale of the chattle estate of the said decedent returned into Court April Sessions 1807 by Polly Hunter admrx and admrs as follows to wit:

The whole amount as calculated on the return is $1,197.50. Property sold not inventoried two head horses one saddle one head of cattle and a quantity of bacon and cotton.

February 10^th, 1807, Polly Hunter, A., Braxton Lee, Administrator.

Davidson County, Will Book 3-4, Page 154,

Jacob Hunter - settlement made with Braxton Lee, his Administrator, by Thomas Hickman and George S. Allen Esquires and ______ to Davidson County Court April Sessions of 1811. To wit, sundry notes due the estate of said Hunter is

Cash on hand $130.135, In this whole $907.44 and the following is a list of the amounts paid by the administrator of Jacob Hunter, Dec'd:

John Boyd's recept for taxes 1807

Other receipt for taxes, 1808, 1809, 1810 $3.3025

In the whole $44.485

Agreeable to an order of court to us directed, we have made settlement with Braxton Lee, this Administrator agreeable to his statement this 15^th day of April 1811.

Charles Hickman

George S. Allen

Davidson County, Will Book 4, p. 153

POLLY LEE - her dower land etc. See this filed with the deed of July 1811. Sept. 19^th, 1811. Agreeable to an order of court from April Sessions 1811 to us directed we have laid off and marked agreeable to the annexed plan Polly Lee late relic of Jacob Hunter deceased Dower including the mansion house & a certain part of the improvement. Beginning at a black oak and elm in the western boundary of the original survey running east, one hundred and twenty five poles to a hackberry then south ninety three poles to a stake in the southern boundary line of the original survey and with that time one hundred and twenty five poles to a corner then north ninety three poles to the beginning containing seventy two acres two rods twenty five poles. Given under our hands this 5^th day of July 1811.

Thomas Hickman, Surveyor

Signed: Nicholas Hale, William Grimes, George Hail, George Cagle, James Freeland, Peter Dozier, Elijah Spiller, Samuel Dennis, David T. Etheridge, Abram Tippy, Charles Stuart.

Davidson County, Will Book 4, Page 154

JACOB HUNTER, deceased. Division of his estate Sept. 19^th, 1811. Made and returned into Court by Thomas Hickman and George S. Allen July Sessions 1811 to wit, agreeable to an order of the court from April sessions 1811 to us directed to said court estate of Jacob Hunter, deceased, agreeable to an inventory returned to said court betwixt Polly Hunter alias Lee and the six children and find each of the heirs and Legatees are entitled to one hundred sixty one dollars eighty nine cents ten mills and five sevenths of a mill as given under our hands this 9^th day of July 1811.

Thomas Hickman

G. S. Allen

Davidson County, Will Book 4, p. 311, September 2, 1814

Jacob Hunter Deceased a Division of his Estate

To the Worshipful Court of Davidson County.

Recorded 2 September 1814

We as commissioners of the Worshipful Court of Davidson County for the dividing of the estate of Jacob Hunter deceased on examination from one hundred and sixty one dollars eighty nine cents due to Thomas W. Freeland who intermarried with one of the heirs of that estate to wit Elizabeth Hunter and five dollars and ten cents for rents of land given under our hand this twenty first day of March 1814.

Robert Heaton

G. S. Allen

W. Wallace

State of Tennessee Davidson County Court July Sessions 1814

The above Division was returned unto Court at said division by said commissioners and ordered to be recorded

Test. Nathan Ewing Clerk of the Court

Davidson County, Deed Book R, p. 28:

Registered November 29, 1825

This Indenture made this first day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty five between Manuel Hunter, Isaac Hunter, Matthew Hunter, Thomas W. Fulin and Elizabeth his wife, Timothy Dural and Sarah his wife all heirs of Jacob Hunter deceased and of Davidson County and State of Tennessee of the one part and Frederick Carpenter of the County and State aforesaid of the other part.

Witnesseth that for and in consideration of the sum of five hundred and fifty dollars to them the said Manuel Hunter, Isaac Hunter, Matthew Hunter, Thomas W. Fulin and Elizabeth his wife, Timothy Dural and Sarah his wife in hand paid before the signing and delivering these presents the receipt whereof we do hereby acknowledge, hath bargained granted and sold, aliened, enfeoffed, conveyed and confirmed and by these presents doth bargain, grant, sell, alien, enfeoff, and confirm unto the said Frederick Carpenter forever all the right, title, claim, and [interest] which [are] derived as heirs of Jacob Hunter deceased to a tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and twenty acres which said Jacob Hunter purchased of Robert Weakley by deed bearing the date the 15^th of October 1798, lying and being on the north side of Cumberland River and on both sides of Sycamore Creek in the state aforesaid,

Beginning at a white oak and small sugar tree on the north bank of said creek; runs south forty six chains and forty links to a stake; thence east forty seven chains fifty links to the middle of said creek. Thence north fifty links an elm and beach. William Purnell's corner continued north with Purnell's line in all forty six chains forty links to a stake Jacob Mokes corner; thence with Mokes line west passing his corner in all forty six chain fifty links to the beginning.

To have and to hold all our right, titles, claims, of interests as heirs of the aforesaid Jacob Hunter to the aforesaid tract or parcel of land containing two hundred and twenty acres to the same more or less with all advantages, hereditaments and appurtenances thereunto belonging or in any wise appertaining unto the said Frederick Carpenter his heirs and assigns forever.

And the said Manual Hunter, Isaac Hunter, Matthew Hunter, Thomas W. Fulin and Elizabeth his wife, Timothy Dural and Sarah his wife do for themselves, their executors and administrators doth covenant and agree to and with the said Frederick Carpenter his heirs and assigns to warrant and forever defend all their rights, titles, claim or interest as heirs of said Jacob Hunter, Deceased against all persons whatsoever lawfully claiming the aforesaid bargained premesis. In witness whereof we the said Manuel Hunter, Isaac Hunter, Matthew Hunter, Thomas W. Fulin and Elizabeth his wife, Timothy Dural and Sarah his wife hath hereunto set their hand and seal the day and date above written.

Matthew Hunter [seal], Isaac Hunter [seal], Matthew R. Hunter [seal], Thomas W. Fulin [seal], Elizabeth (her mark) Fulin [seal], Timothy (his mark) Dural [seal], Sarah (her mark) Dural [seal]

Signed, sealed and delivered in presence of Jas. Lovell, Jas. Lewis, Samuel Dennis

State of Tennessee Davidson County Court October Sessions 1825

This indenture of bargain and sale between Isaac Hunter, Matthew R. Hunter, Manuel Hunter, Thos. W. Fulin and his wife Elizabeth Fulin, Timothy Dural and his wife Sarah Dural of the one part & Frederick Carpenter of the other part was acknowledged in open court by the said Isaac, Matthew r., Manuel, Thos. W., Elizabeth, Timothy and Sarah to be their act and deed for the uses and purposes thereon contained. The said Elizabeth and Sarah having been first privately examined by the court separately and apart from their said husbands and having admitted that they executed the said Deed freely, voluntarily, and of their own accord and without fear, coercion, or compulsion of their said husbands ordered that said deed be registered & fee paid.

Test. Nathan Ewing clerk of said court

[Transcribed from photocopy of original: Inventory, Record of Sale, Division of Estate, p. 311, Sale of Homestead. Others copied from other transcriptions, unknown authors, Ernest E. Hunt IV, April 18, 1999]