Probate Records (County or Chancery Court), Wills, Vol 1 - 5, July 1789 - July 1904. "February Term 1879. A paper writing purporting to be the last Will and Testement of Patsey Senter dec'd was this day produced in Court..."
Patsey and sister Nancy, who never married, prepared a joint will 19 November 1851 in which they refer to the 'Negro boy James' given to them by their father. (Sumner County, Tennessee Will Book, Volume IV, 1870, Patsey and Nancy Senter.)