Tattnall County GaArchives Court.....Holland, Frederick & Et Al October 1849
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Source: Relative Of Parties
Written: October 1849

[Comment:  This document comes in a number of sections – the original plea, 
further pleas and the command to appear before the judge.]

Tattnall Superior Court
October Term 1849
Frederick Holland 
Administrator
Vs
Hanson Lewis 
complaint in ejictment

[Comment:  Ejectment is a civil action to recover possession of and title to 
land.]

[Comment:  This is a copy of the original document, and so noted by the 
word “copy” on the front of the document.]

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Georgia Tattnall County
			To the Superior Court of said county the petition of 
Frederick Holland administrator of all and singular the goods chattels rights 
credits and estate of George Lewis late of said county Deceased Bringing into 
court his letters of administration showing his right to sue in his Behalf 
Sheweth that Hanson Lewis of said county is in possession of a certain Tract 
of land in said county lying on the waters of cedar creek containing two 
hundred acres more or less and granted to Robert Brewer bounded on the west by 
lands of Brewers and on all other sides by vacant lands as appears more fully 
by a plat of the same To which your petitioner claims title that the said 
Hanson has Received the Profits of the said lands since the first day of 
January in the year Eighteen hundred and forty six of the yearly value of one 
hundred dollars and refuses to deliver the s aid land to your petitioner or to 
pay him the Profits thereof

Wherefore your petitioner prays process may ensue requiring the said Hanson 
Lewis to be and appear at the next superior court to be held in and for said 
county to answer your petitioners complaint.

							Field Saffold
							Atty for Plaintiff

[Comment:  There is no record of a person named Saffold in the 1850 census 
living in Tattnall.  There is a Thomas Saffold, lawyer, in Morgan County.]


[Comment:  The handwriting and degradation of the paper make it too difficult 
to pick out many of the words.]

And now at this April term …  comes Hanson Lewis by his Attys ____ & _____ and 
says that he is not guilty of the supposed trespass & ___ above ___ to his 
charge in _____ as the said plaintiff hath above  _____ thereof against him 
and of this he gives himself upon the county ___

						G.L. Wm Schley
							Aty for Defd

[Comment:  In the 1850 census there is a George Schley, lawyer, in Richmond 
county.  That is also the same county where Holt is the superior court judge.]

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And for further plea in his behalf this Defendant says the land complaint of 
by the Plaintiff is the property of this Defendant not the property of the 
plaintiff and of this he puts himself upon the county

						G.L. Wm Schley
							Aty for Defd
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Georgia Tattnall County
				To the Sheriff of said county greeting
Frederick Holland
Administrator of George Lewis
	vs			Complaint
Hanson Lewis

				For certain cause offered in ejictment The 
defendant is hereby commanded that laying aside all other business you 
personally be and appear before the superior count of said county of Tattnall 
to be __ on the Thursday after the second Monday in October next to answer 
such complaint as may be then and there ___ against you and further to do and 
___ what the said court may order and direct in his behalf and this you are in 
no wise to omit under the penalty of five thousand dollars
	Witness the Honorable William W. Holt judge of said count this the 1st 
day of September 1849

					William W. Rogers clk

[Comment:  There is a William W. Hold in the 1860 census for Richmond county.  
He is listed as a judge of the superior court.  There is a William W. Rogers 
in the Tattnall 1850 census – he is listed as a farmer.]


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