Dobbs County, NC - Court Records

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Grace Williamson Turner

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Lori Price Cobb (jhcobb@iquest.net)

New Bern District Superior Court
Criminal Action Papers
D.S.C.R.206.326.1
1761-1775 (Broken Series)
1777-1784

State No. Carolina }
Dobbs County       }  The Deposition of John Sileven
   Taken on Oath Before one William Hooker a Justice assigned to Keep the
   Peace for s'd County; This 16th Day of March 1782; This Deponent Saith
   that He was at Hardy Powels the Eavening Before that he & Hardy Powell
   had been Washing their feet by the fire in the House; thought he heard
   Something out, Took it to be Horses, as he & Hardy was Siting by the
   fire Hardy was Shot willfuly by Some Body with Leaden Shot and force of
   powder as he sat by in the House Rais'd up went to the Bed fell on it
   and was Dead in Two or Three Minuts; That he Saw nobody present any
   Gun, only heard the Report of Gun & powder as it Killed Hardy Powell,
   as he took it to be; who fired the Gun he knoeth not near about one
   & half Hour in night the next morning he saw a mans Track to & from
   the House where the Gun fired and that he saw the stain of powder on
   the House and further said not; Duly sworn to the Day above Writen Before
   Will. Hooker J.P.
                                                      his
                                               John    X    Silleven
                                                      mark

   This may certify that This abov'd John Silleven was called on at the
   Time when the Jury was paneled at Hardys funeral and Declared as above
   Before W. Hooker
   N.B. the Murther was Comited on Hardy; March 15th night, the 16th The 
   Jury was called, and examination. W. H.

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