Bertie COUNTY NC COURT Criminal Record John Avera File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Cathy Farris http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie.htm 1770 Bertie County Criminal Records 010.326.1 NCArchives Jan. 2002 Cathy Hart Farris (Spelling is as on entry...cathy) The King vs AVERA} Subp. To Bertie Decm? Court 1770 Executed ? me H. BATE D. She? North Carolina Bertie County } George the Third by the grace of God of Great Britain France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith ? To the Sheriff of Bertie County Greeting we Command you that you summons James CHURCHWELL and William BRYAN both of your county. Personally to appear before the worshipful the Justices of our Inferior Court of Pleas and Quarter Session to be held for said County at the Court house in Bertie on the fourth Tuesday in December next then and there to Testify and the truth to say in behalf of our Sovereign Lord the King in a certain matter of controvercy in our said Court depending and then and there to be tryed between our said Lord the King vs John AVERA def and this they shall in no wise omit under penalty of twenty pounds proclamation money Witness John JOHNSTON Clerk of our said Court at Bertie the XXIXth day of September ? year of our reign 1770. John JOHNSTON Clerk