Wayne County, NC - Court Records

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Grace Williamson Turner
Edited by Guy Potts

Source:  General Assembly Session Records; November 1858-February 1859;
         Box 11. Copied as closely as possible from original.


State of N. Carolina }     Know all Men by these present that We Jethro
Wayne County         }     Odom John Bizzell & Elisha Pipkin all of the

State and County aforesaid are held and firmly stand Bound unto John Coor
Pinder Sheriff of said County, in the Penal sum of Two thousand pounds
Specie, to which payment will and truly to be made & done we bind ourselves,
our Heirs Exrs Admrs & Assigns unto the said J. Coor Pinder his Heirs &
Assigns firmly Jointly & Severally by these Presents Sealed with our Seals
and dated this 11th day of April 1787.

  The Condition of the above Obligation is such that if the above Bounden
Jethro Odom do and shall Make his personal Appearance before the judges of
the Superior Court of Law & equity to be held for the District of New Bern,
at the Court House in New Bern on the twentieth day of May next, to answer
Bryan Whitfield in a plea of Trespass on the care & to his damage One
Thousand pounds. Then & there to stand to and abide by the Judgmt of the 
said Court, and not depart the same without leave first had and obtained,
Then the above Obligation to be void otherwise to remain on full force &
virtue.

Signed Sealed & Delivered }                    Jethro (his x mark) Odom
in Presence of                                 John Bizzell
  Benj. Stevens                                Elisha Pipkin


State of North Carolina

                      I John Coor Pinder Sheriff of Wayne County do hereby
assign the within Obligation and condition to Bryant Whitfield the plaintiff
there in named his executors and administrators to be sued for according
to the statute in such case made and provided In witness whereof I have
here unto Set my hand and Seal this 12th day of April Anno Dom 1787.

                                                J.C. Pender Shff

Jethro Odom & others to J.C. Pinder Shff} Bail Bond


State of Georgia }      Agreable to a Dedimus to us Directed have causd
Wilks County     }      John Bails personally to appear before us who
                        being Duely Sworn on the Holy Evengelist of
Almighty God Depoeth and Saith that Some Time in the last of February or
first of March the year of our lord one thousand seven Hundred and Eighty
four he the sd Deponent was Several Days at the House of Mr Jethro Odom
in Wayne County in North Carolina in which Time He Heard a report of the
Robbery of the Store Belonging to Bryant Whitfield in Two Days after
sd Robbery was Committed and that he was at the House of the sd Odom on
the same night that the sd Robbery was & said to be Committed and Know
him to be at Home Till about Ten Oclock at night that He went to Bed in
the same House and Room with the sd Odom about that Hour of the same
night on which the sd Robbery was said to be Committed and that He saw
the said Odom Rise in the next morning from the same Bed to which he had
seen Him go to rest and the sd Deponant on His oath further saith that
He does not believe the sd Odom was out of the sd House that night after
the Hour of Ten Oclock Till next day and farther this dpt saith not. 
Sworn before us Agreable to a Dedimus tatem to us directed this thirtieth
day of October in the year of our Lord one thousand seven Hundred and
Eighty Seven.

                                              Jas. McCormick
                                              Hugh Rees

On reverse: To The Hone Court of Newbern District in North Carolina to
            be held in the held in the Court house in Newbern the 20th
            day of Novr Ensuing.

                                              Jas. McCormick  JP
                                              Hugh Rees

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