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From the will of James Tanner's father, Phillip Tanner, written 1751:
- order that my son James Tanner shall live and remain with his mother untill he arrives to the age of twenty one years But if he prove stubborn and disobiedent, then to be bound out to a sharp master a fuller & c.
- I give and devise unto my son James Tanner when he arrives to the age of twenty one years, one hundred acres of land adjoining the fulling mill, Together with the fulling mill and the tools thereunto belonging, And ye residue of my land and what stock remains unsold, I give and bequeath unto my well beloved wife Mary Tanner, to be at her own disposal.
William Edmiston, 1769, to James Tanner, 5 pounds on condition that he pay the 5 pounds that Wm. Edmiston is bound for him.
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