Monday, October 3, 2016

Monday Is for Mothers: Timney P. Watts (1805 - 1863) - Probate Records, Part 2, Some Bills

A number of documents in Timney P. Watts Warren Phillips'* file are several petitions filed in the probate court by creditors requesting payment of outstanding bills like the one below from a neighboring farmer W. H.C. Perkins.

[Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah.  Source Information: Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

Here's a transcription:

W.H.C. Perkins to Timney P Phillips D[?]

1859
Mar ?       shoeing Horse Before old shoes                                   25
Mar 8         '   '   '     '   '        '   '                                                      50
June 1       1 Tire Iron                                                                  1 00
      25        upseting[?] 2 Bolts           12 1/2 cts                            25
July 12      Shoeing Horse Before                                                  50
Aug 5        Shoeing Horse Behind                                                 50
Sept 21      100 nails                         2 cts                                   2 00
Oct 4          3 1/2 lbs of Iron             7 cts                                      24
Dec 8         Reseting Horse shoes                                                  25
                                                                                                    5 99
                          Interest for one year                                            47
                                                                                                   6 46 

(Obviously "before" and "behind" refer to the front and back hooves of a horse.)

Here's Mr. Perkins' entry in the 1860 U.S. Census

["United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch, image 43 of 107; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653
(Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).]


Here's another bill for work done by her neighbor J.W. Webb in 1861 that J.D. Phillips finally paid (plus interest) in 1864.

[Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah.  Source Information: Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]


My transcription:

Mrs Timney P Phillips
1861                  To J W. Webb & Co [undecipherable]

Sept 1     To Turning Waggen Hubb                               1 25
   "    10    "   Making Coffin                                           6.00**
Nov  25    "   1 days Hauling                                          5.00
Dec   1     "    Repairing Gin                                           7.75
                                                                                    $20.00
       2 Years Interest                                                        3.20
                                                                                      23.20
Recd of J.D. Phillips administrator
of the Estate of T.P.Phillips Deceased the
above bill in full 21 Jany 1864.

                                 J. W. Webb & Co

I found myself wondering who J.W. Webb was and found him in the 1860 U.S. Census*** where his occupation is listed as "Mechanic".****


["United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch, image 43 of 107; from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653
(Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).]

[United State Census Bureau: 1860 Instructions p.15]


And we have the bill and receipt for Timney's own coffin paid to R[obert] A. Johnston, a local merchant.

[Estate Papers, Phillips, Nancy (Minor) to Piques, Sarah.  Source Information: Ancestry.com. Alabama, Wills and Probate Records, 1753-1999 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015. Original data: Alabama County, District and Probate Courts.]

My transcription:

Est Mrs T P Phillips
   1 sh[?] 3                             To R A Johnston
Sept 2  To 1 Fine Coffin No 11                             }
             "      Box for Same                                    }   $200.00
             "      H[e]arse Hire                                    }

Rec'd Payment in full
September 2nd 1863                                      R A Johnston                                

And here's Mr. Johnston's listing in the 1860 U.S. Census:

["United States Census, 1860," database with images, FamilySearch from "1860 U.S. Federal Census - Population," database, Fold3.com (http://www.fold3.com : n.d.); citing NARA microfilm publication M653 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).]

I'm saving the doctor's bills for next time as there's a lot of them--so many that the court questioned Timney's neighbors in an effort to decide if they were legitimate and should be paid.


*You can read more about this 3X great grandmother here.
**I haven't figured out who this coffin was for although compared to the cost of Timney's coffin (see below) it was probably for one of her enslaved people.
***Note that he was a neighbor of A[linson] Lockwood whose first wife was Timney's daughter Elizabeth Ann Phillips (1828-1852) and second wife Nancy Ann Phillips (1832-1883) was her niece.
****This is a blanket term for a skilled craftsman--you can read more about the sort of jobs that covered here.




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