Notes on Micajah Vivrett

The Sale of Micajah Vivrett's Estate

WILSON CO TENNESSEE
By virture of an order of Court to be directed from the worshipful court of Wilson County to settle with George Smith the administrator of Micajah Vivrett deceased upon an inventory find as follows:
By settlement with Micajah Vivrett 1814.........................$96.00
One note hand paid to John Rutherford...........................$26.84
One note of hand paid Thos Cavens................................12.05
One note of hand paid Beverely Williams...........................5.68 3/4
One note of hand paid to Starn Olsen..............................4.59
One proven account paid ____......................................l.84 1/2
One proven account paid Avry Smith................................1.00
One note of hand paid James H. Davis..............................4.72
One note paid Edmund Vaughan.....................................10.16
One account paid Isiah Stephens...................................2.77
Clerk fees........................................................2.75
Expenses paid at Nashville three days.............................6.00
Expenses paid Jon Telford for collecting money
due sale of estate from the ___...................................15.00
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$ 188.91 3/4
Received for the estate of Micajah Vivrett............................$177.00
We the undersigned commissioners have adjusted the above accounts given under our hand or seals this 31st day of July 1819.
Brittain Drake
Francis Anderson
The above report was exhibited in open court at August Term 1819 and ordered to be recorded. Recorded 18th Jan 1820
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Adjutant General's Office
Washington, June 15, 1850 Sir:
In reply to your letter of the 7th instant, requesting the evidence of the service and death of Micajah Vivrett, I have to inform you that it appears from the Muster Rolls of Capt. Stephen's Company of the 24th Regiment of Infantry, for February 1815, that a MICHAEL VIVRETT, born in North Carolina, a Blacksmith by profession, was enlisted in the 23rd November 1814 for five years by Lieut. Williamson; and on the Inspection Returns of Capt. Twigg's Company 7 Infantry, (of which the 24th Infantry formed a part at the reduction of the Army in 1815) for January 1816, there appears a MICAHAJ VIBERT, who enlisted on the 23 November 1814, and is reported to have died at Fort Jackson, January 18 1816. There being no Rolls in this office that will afford the information asked for, relative to John Parker, your letter has been referred to Jno. S. Gallaher, Esq the Third Auditor of the Treasury.
Respectfully,
E.D. Townssend
Asst Adjt. Genl
Mr. William H. Smith Nashville Sept 14, 1850 wrote to 3rd auditor Tenn. relative to extra pay, bal of pay to Adj Gen relative to evidence of pension. John B. Vivrett Green Hill, Wilson Co Tennessee 3d Audtior-bal of pay. Adj. General - Pension payed evidence & certificate write to-day. **************************************************************************

State of Tennessee, County of Wilson I Josiah S. McClain, clerk of the County Court of the County and State aforesaid hereby certify that during the War of 1812 I resided in this county and altho I was a boy, I was acquainted with, and remember Micajah Vivrett & that he entered and died in the United States Service. This I only knew from information - it was so reported and unanimously believed, so far as I know. I am acquainted with his widow who still lives in this County and in the same neighborhood that her said husband lived in before he enlisted. She is still a widow.
In testimoney whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office at office in Lebanon this 29th day of Sept AD 1853
J.S. McClain, Clerk ******************************************************************************
HISTORY OF WILSON CO ITS LAND & ITS LIFE
Dixon Merrit, Editor - 1961
p.242 ROCKY VALLEY No longer even a ghost town - for even a specter is thought to contain some ethereal substance - Rocky Valley may have been the earliest of the villages in a direct line south of Lebanon and, for a while, it was certainly the largest of them. Located 6 miles south of Lebanon, Rocky Valley was in business as early as the 1820's. Though there was at least one before him, the earliest merchant whose name can be found was MICAJAH VIVRETT. A bldg near the store was used for various business purposes, and for the short periods that the early schools were kept, as a schoolhouse.

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