Robeson County NcArchives Photo Document.....Minutes ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Donna Newman centavo@lserv.com January 21, 2013, 4:32 pm Source: F H L Microfilm #554636 Photo can be seen at: http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2626gph.jpg Image file size: 263.1 Kb County court minutes 1797-1813, North Carolina, Superior Court (Robeson County) (/) torn [Deeds were always either "acknowledged in open court" or "proved by oath of...." and then ordered to be registered; to eliminate redundancy, these have been abstracted simply as "acknowledged" or "proved by...."] Page 258 [image 132a] Henry Thompson Charles Thompson Junr Joseph Betton Andrew Fulmore John McColl Danl Buie? Allen McLauchlan Archibald Murphey John Watson James Biggs John Campbell Thomas Davis Duncan McMillan Dugald Grayham Duncan Brown Danl McCollum Junr Malcom McInnis / Taylor / & William Traywick Thomas Barnes Sheriff presented a list of insolvents for the year 1802 which was allowed Ordered that John McNeill be overseer of the streets in Lumberton William Norment Esquire came into court and made oath that he was in fear of Death or some bodily hurt to be done or to be procured to be done to him by Melican & Luke and that he did not require surety of the peace against them out of malice or for mear vexation but for the causes aforesaid and the said Melican & & Luke Carter failing to give sureties therefore it is ordered that they be comitted to jail and there to remain untill they give security of one thousand pounds each Court adjourned untill court in course Rt Haills NPitman WNorment Page 259 [image 132b] At a county court of pleas and Quarter [sessions] begun and held for the County of Robeson on Monday the third day of October and twenty eighth year of American Independence AD 1803 Present the worshipful Joseph Wood Elias Barnes Sampson Bridgers & Archibald Buie Esquires The sheriff returned the Venire Facias from which the court selected the following gentlemen to attend as grand juros during this term / to wit / Albritain Drake Foreman Charles Bullock Joseph Kitchen Henry Thompson John McColl John Watson Dugald Grayham James Biggs John Campbell Duncan McMillan Archd Murphy Duncan Brown & William Traywick and John Rea constable sworn to attend them Ordered that Samuel Britt be overseer of the road in room of Jacob Barnes Ordered that Jesse Philips be overseer of the road in room of John West Ordered that Michael Herring be overseer of the creek in room of Britain Barnes Ordered that the sheriff summon the following gentlemen to attend as jurors at the next Superior Court to be held for the district of Fayetteville / to wit /Thomas Sewell Alexr Rowland Benjamin Lewis? James McNeill Esqr & Robert File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/robeson/photos/documents/minutes2626gph.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 3.2 Kb