Kate’s Notes: I much prefer to work from original materials and documents but there are times when those are not available. In this case, I created transcriptions from microfilmed copies of older transcriptions executed in 1937 (source provided below). Fortunately the transcriber did not correct the original material for spelling and punctuation so I am comfortable with the accuracy of her work. In some cases she did underline clearly misspelled words, which I have not.
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                                                                                                      -Kate Maynard 2013

Tennessee, Probate Court Books, 1795-1927
Davidson County

WILL, INVENTORY & SALE  PERTAINING TO THE ESTATE OF WILLIAM GILLILAND

WM. GILLILAND his Last Will and Testament. Augt. 23rd 1800
In the name of God Amen I William Gilliland Do make and Publish this my Last will and Testament.  Imprimis   I Will and Direct that my Negro man Pompey, my Studhorse & my Old mare & her Two Colts be Sold by my Executrix herein After named So Soon as the same Can Conveniently be Done After my Decease for the best Price that Can be had, giving Twelve Months Credit; And taking bonds and Sufficient Security for the payment of the Sum or Sums of Money for Which they may be Sold. Item
It is my Will and I hereby Direct that the Money Arising from the Sale of the Above mentioned property So Soon as Convenient may be Laid out in the Purchase of Land in Some part of Mero district and a Deed of Conveyance thereof taken in the names of my three sons Robert Gilliland, Daniel Gilliland & James Gilliland to them and their heirs forever And I Do hereby Give And bequeath the said Land to be so purchased to my said three Sons, & their heirs forever, to be Equally Divided Among them. Provided Always and my further Will is that my beloved Wife Nancy Guilland Shall have and Enjoy one third part of the said Lands so to be purchased for and During her Natural Life, in Case She Shall Chuse to Reside to Reside therein and After her decease the Same Shall go and Remain to my Youngest Son James Guilliland and his heirs but If She shall not Chuse to Reside there on or shall marry Again After my Decease then my Youngest son Shall be intitled to Enter upon and Enjoy the said third of said Land On his Arrival at Twenty One years of Age.   Item   I Give and bequeath to my said Wife the Residue of the Term of Lease I now hold of the Land and Plantation Whereon I now Live  Also all my Stock of Cattle hogs and Sheep the better to Enable her to take care of and provide for my Children, I also Give her all my household furniture And Also One Young Mare Called Pleasure and her Colt; I Also Give to her all my house hold furniture and my Negro Girl Nancy untill my Daughter Sarah Gilliland Shall Attain the Age of Twenty one years or Or Shall marry, but on my said Daughter Attaining the Age of Twenty one years or Marriage Which Ever Shall first happen, I Give and bequeath the said Negro Girl and her increase to my ad. Daughter & her heirs & C. to be then Delivered to her. If my Executrix Should think it most Advantageous to Send my Aforead. Negro Pompey to the Mississippi Territory to be Sold I hereby give her full power and Authority to Do so. And I Do Appoint my Wife Nancy Guilloland to be my Sole Executrix of this my Last Will and Testament. In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto Set my hand and Seal this Twenty Ninth Day of April 1800
Witness: 
Elisha Rice, N. Perkins & Wm. Hamilton
                                                                            William Gilliland   LS
    The Execution of Which Will and Testament is Above Recited Was in Court held for the County of Davidson July Sessions 1800 Proven to be the Act and Deed of the ad. William Gilliland by the Oath of the Elisha Rice one of the Subscribing Witnesses thereto.

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WILLIAM GILLILAND  Desd. his Inventory & C. March 2nd 1801. An Inventory of the personal Estate of Wm. Gilliland Delivered into Court January Sessions 1801. One Negro man named Pompey, One Negro Girl named Nance About Eleven Years Old, One Stud horse three Years Old, Two Mares, Two fillies & One Young Colt, Three Cows & Calves, Two Cows, One heifer & Two year Old, Two Yearlings Twenty head of hogs, five head of Sheep Two beds and furniture Indifferent in Quallity, Three Pewter Dishes, five Case knives & Six forks, Seven Pewter Plates, Eight Pewter Table Spoons & five Tea Spoons, Two Pewter Basons One Iron Kettle, One Dutch Oven, One Iron Leadle, Two Spinning Wheels, One Small Trunk, Two Sitting Chairs, About One hundred and forty or One hundred and fifty pound of Cotton in the Seed, One Washing Tub, One Pickling Tub, three pails, One Churn, One kegg, Two pair of Old Cotton Cards, a Small Quantity of flax, a Lease of Twenty Acres of Land for Two years to Come of Which Eight Acres is UnderSet for sd. Term, One Barshare Plow, Two Old Weeding hoes, One Pair of Drawing Chains & hems, two Old horse Collars, Two falling Axes, Two Iron Wedges, Two Iron Clevises, One Mans Saddle, One Womans Saddle, three Old Briddles, One poplar Table, One Glass Bottle, One Bible, One Spelling book, A Small Quantity of Corn, a Crop of Corn, & C. Growing on the Land Subject to the Cropper Share of One hundred and Twenty five Bushels, One pair of mens Shoes, One man Hat, A Small Pieve of Iron, One Iron Pot, Rack, One Pair of Pot hooks, three Slighs for Weaving, Two Sides and a Small piece of Leather, half a Bushel of Salt, One Auger, one Drawing Knife, Six or Seven pounds of Wool, three Bells & Collars & One Mattock.
                                                                                                                       her
                                                                                                       Nancy       V     Gilliland    Extr.
                                                                                                                       Mark

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     WM. GILLILAND an Inventory of the Sale of his Chattels. March 3rd 1801 Delivered into Court by Nancy Gilliland January Sessions 1801.
One Negro fellow named Pompey sold to Seth Lewis for 180 Dollars,
One Stud Horse Sold to John Caffrey for 160 Dollars,
One Brown filly Sold to John Caffrey        67 Dollars,
One Mare Sold John Graves                       66 Dollars,
One filly Purchased by the Executrix         70 Dollars,
                                                                   743 Dollars
                                                                 Nancy Gilliland Extrx.

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Source:
TENNESSEE
RECORDS OF DAVIDSON COUNTY
WILLS & INVENTORIES VOL. 2  PART 1.
1794-1805
HISTORICAL RECORDS PROJECT
Official Project No. 165-44-6000
COPIED UNDER WORK’S PROGRESS ADMINISTRATION

MRS. JOHN TROTWOOD MOORE
STATE LIBRARIAN & ARCHIVIST, SPONSOR

MRS. ELIZABETH D. COPPEDGE
DIRECTOR OF WOMEN’S & PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

MRS. PENELOPE JOHNSON ALLEN
STATE SUPERVISOR

MISS MATILDA A. PORTER
SUPERVISOR FOURTH DISTRICT

COPIED AND
TYPED BY
MRS. FRANKIE BEERMAN

Mar. 2, 1937.