Distribution of Jesse's library

 

Ancestry. Posey County, IN. Nov. 1840.

Picking up from yesterday's post, the administrators of the estate of Jesse Guthrie, his widow Priscilla and James Wiggins filed an inventory of the estate with the Posey County Court in February 1824. The records of the Probate Court for Posey County, November 1840 term, includes this inventory. Many of the entries describe books from Jesse's library. Among the works were various Methodist hymns, a copy of Robinson Crusoe, a copy of Paradise Lost, books of grammar and geography, math (including his own book) and history.

Ancestry. Indiana Wills and Probate Records.

Jesse's personal copy of his own book was acquired by Ajax Campbell. Priscilla filed an accounting of the inventory and payouts from the estate to the children and heirs of Jesse (see below):

There's much more on Jesse Guthrie and his family on the extensive Guthrie Genealogy Blog. Other researchers on this Guthrie line should check that space first. While I have more clean-up to do on my own tree on the Guthrie family, I am going to leave this branch for now and return to another side of the tree for my current DNA research questions.