Dobbs County NcArchives Court.....Shepard, John & Benjamin 1786
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Carolyn Shank carolynshank@msn.com June 3, 2007, 6:13 pm

Source: Colonial Records
Written: 1786

From Colonial Records Vol. 18
22 Nov. 1786
JOHN SHEPARD and BENJAMIN SHEPARD of Dobbs and others accused of fraudulent 
practices in procuring accounts to be passed by the Commissioners for 
Liquidating Army Accounts and on passing the same have obtained certificates 
and received money from the public Treasury to the great injury of individual 
s as well as manifest fraud to the State... Resolved the Sheriffs of each & 
every county take in possession all the horses and negroes belonging to 
persons of their counties... for having been guilty of fraudulent practices 
and detain the same until such persons are discharged by lawful authority.

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