Adams County MsArchives Court.....Et Al, Et Al October 1802 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/ms/msfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Ellen Pack e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org December 10, 2005, 12:20 pm Source: Minutes Of The Court Of General Quarter Written: October 1802 Pages 22 - 26 Thursday Oct 7th 1802 The Court met according to adjourment Present Samuel Brooks Ford’d L. Claiborne Esquires William Darby Jacob Guice James Carrick Plaintiff Against In Debt Patrick Foley Defend’t This day came the parties aforesaid by their attornies and thereupon came also a Jury to wit Robert Throgmorton, Ezekiel Dewitt, Israel Luce, John King, Andrew Walker, George Killian, Moses Moore, Daniel Whitaker Jeremiah Routh, Hansel McCollum, Elisha Estridge, and Reuben, Gibson, who being elected tried and sworn well & truly to try the issue joined returned the following verdict to wit “We of the judy find that the said Patrick hath not paid to the said James Carrick the said sum of three hundred and forty dollars with all legal interest thereon due in such manner and from as the s’d Patrick in pleading hath alledged and therefore find for the Plt. The said debt of three hundred and forty dollars Page 23 in the declaration mentioned and one hundred and forty seven dollars and twenty nine cents damages for the detention of the same with costs of suit” Therefore it is considered by the court that the Plaintiff recover against the defendant his debt and damages afore’d in mannor and for by the jurors in their verdict aforesaid accessed and also his costs by him about his Suit in this behalf expended and the defendant in Mercy &c. Ordered that Thomas Wilkins, William Foster, John Grafton, Robert Dunbar, Emanuel Madden, William Lemon and John Wilie, Gent, do view and mark out the necessary roads in the district of Capt. William Darby Company and make report thereof to the next court according to Law. In pursuance of the act of Assembly for that purpose, the Court proceeded to nominate the number of Jurors for the county as directed by the said act, to attend at the next superior court for the district of Adams, whereupon the following housekeepers free holders were nominated to wit Col John Steele, Sutton Banks, William G. Forman, Peter Walker, James McIntosh, Page 24 Thomas Reid, David Holt, Joseph Newman, Samuel Neil, John Garrach, Lewis West, Andre Marschalk, John Bowles, Joseph Calvit, Christopher Miller, Nathaniel Tomlinson, Andrew Bell, Simpson Holmes, James Foster, William Foster, Anthony Hoggart, Wilford Hoggart and Job Roth and it is ordered that a writ of venire facias do issue to the Sheriff accordingly. Ordered that Archibald Lewis, Reubin Gibson, Joseph Calvit, Ezekiel Dewitt, Thomas Reid and Daniel Whataker, Gent do view and mark out the different roads necessary in the district of Capt Duncan’s Company and make report thereof to the next court according to Law. Elijah Craig Plaintiff Against In Case Miguel Sollivellas Defendant This day came the parties by their attornies and thereupon came also a Jury to wit, Robert Throgmorton, Ezekiel Dewitt, Israel Page 25 Luse, John King, Andrew Walker, Goerge Killian, Moses Moore, Daniel Whitakor, Jeremiah Routh, Hansel McCollum, Elisha Estridge, Reubin Gibson who being elected tried and sworn the truth to speak upon the issues joined returned the following vertic to wit “We the Jury find that the defend’t did assume in the manner and form as the Plt. In his declaration hath alleged and find for the plaintiff two hundred in damages and costs of suit.” Therefore it is considered by the court that the plaintiff recover against the said defendant his damages aforesaid in manner and form by the Jurors in their verdict aforesaid assessed also his costs by him abut this suit in this behalf expended and the said defendant in Mercy &c. Nathaniel Tomlinson Plaintiff Against Upon as att’a Robert Knox Defendant On the motion of the defendant by his counsel to quash the attachment awarded Therein The parties being fully heard, It is the opinion of the Court that the Said attachment and the proceedings thereon are defective and illegal upon the face of it, and that the Same be quashed From which opinion and Judgment of the Court the Plaintiff prayed an appeal to the next Superior court of Law to be holden for the District Page 26 of Adams, which is granted upon his giving Bonds with secvurity in the penalty of one hundred dollars conditioned according to Law. Ordered that the Court do adjourn until tomorrow morning 8 of the clock. Additional Comments: This transcription part of "Transcription of County Archives of Mississippi No. 2 Adams County (Natchez) Volume II Minutes of the Court of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace 1802 - 1804 Prepared By The Mississippi Historical Records Survey Service Division Work Projects Administration Published by The Board of Supervisors Adams County June 1942 This book was transcribed by Ellen Pack, with special thanks to Robert Shumway. The book is not paginated; the page numbers in this transcription refer to the pages in the original Minutes Book. Where text in the source was scratched out the WPA transcribers typed the word or words and them back-spaced and overtyped with ----. For the purposes of this copy, the scratched out information is shown thus: [word "one" lined out] WPA transcribers' notes and comments are shown thus: /word illegible/ Spelling, capitalization and grammar errors are the fault of the original clerk and/or the WPA transcriber. 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