CARROLL COUNTY, TN - WILLS - NONCUPATIVE WILL OF JOHN BRITT
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NONCUPATIVE WILL OF JOHN BRITT

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