Jasper County GaArchives Court.....Caston, Et Al 1831
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Source: Superior Court, Oct Term 1831, Bk E, Folio 333 & 334
Written: 1831
Recorded: March 4, 1833

Georgia		§	To the Honorable Superior Court
		§	 of said county & state
Jasper County	§

	The petition of Asia M. Caston in right 
	of his wife Eliza Caston formerly Eliza 
Mason widow and heir of Thom Mason late of Lancaster 
District in the state of South Carolina deceased.  And as 
natural guardian and next friend in right of his wife 
of Araminta Mason daughter & joint heir of the said Thomas Mason
deceased & Eliza Mason, formerly, now Eliza Caston  
And his wife Eliza Caston formerly Eliza Mason 
Sheweth that Jeremiah Pearson of said county has en-
damaged your petitioners one thousand dollars for that --
whereas your petitioners heretofore to wit on the twenty-
nineth day of December in the year of our lord one thou-
sand eight hundred & thirty one in the County 
aforesaid were possessed as of their own property of a certain
Negro man slave by the name of Ike or Isack
and being so thereof possessed your petitioners afterwards
to wit on the day & year aforesaid in the county aforesaid 
[casually?] lost the said Negro man slave out of their
possession And the same afterwards to wit on the day and year 
aforesaid in the County aforesaid came
to the hand & possession of the said Jeremiah Pearson by
finding yet the said Jeremiah well knowing the 
premises and that said negro man slave was the property
and of right assertained and belonged to your petitioner
But contriving and intruding to injure and deceive your
petitioner has not delivered said Negro man slave 
To your petitioners although often requested so to do But
afterwards to wit on the day & year aforesaid in the County aforesaid disposed 
of and converted the same to his own use to the dam-
age of your petitioners one thousand dollars.
Wherefore your petitioners bring suit and pray process
to issue requiring the Jeremiah Pearson in person
or by attorney to be and appear at the next superior
court to be held in and for the County aforesaid to
answer your petitioner in an action of Trover.
					Hamlin [Teuman?]
					Pltffs Atty

[Bond posted by Plaintiff on 29 September 1831]

Jasper County, Georgia
Superior Court
October Term 1831
Book E, Folio 333&4 (recorded 4 March 1833)
Mason, Thomas – estate, Eliza (Mason) Caston, Asia M. Caston, and Araminta 
Mason
v.
Pearson, Jeremiah
(record group 179; location 4285-30)

Additional Comments:
Mason, Thomas (estate), Eliza (Mason) Caston, Asia M. Caston, and Araminta 
Mason v. Pearson, Jeremiah

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