Wayne County NcArchives Court.....Presentments, Grand Jury 1830-1850
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Source: Nc Archives
Written: 1830-1850

Wayne County, NC Superior Court Grand Jury Presentments

Aug Term 1830

Thomas Grant & Winiford Mozingo living in adultery
David Thornton & Zylphy Joiner living in adultery

Fall Term 1838

Dr. H.M. Jeter assault on Augy Capps

Dec Term 1841

Fernifold Wilson & Uriah Denning affray
John Pearce & George Williams affray
James Parker & Isaac Cotten affray
Mills Britt assault on Susan Britt

Feb Term 1842

Abner Holoman & Ephraim Ellis affray
Isaac Cotton & Benja Cotton affray
Richard Grant assault on Silas Bolton
James Howel & Lovit Stafford affray

Nov Term 1842

Francis Davis & James Rose fighting
Jno Harrison & Simon Boswell fighting
Jno McCleny & Ephraim Ellis fighting
William Whitly & Zilpha Gurley living in adultery
Zilpha Gurley & Ann Gurley fighting
Jno Barfield for throwing Amos Ellis in William Hatcher's mill pond

Spring Term 1843

Spias Ward, Benners W. Vail, Wright Woodard, James Parks for drunkeness during 
present term of court

May Term 1844

Henry Parks assault on Henry Wars
Ephraim Ellis & John Hews assault on each other
Daniel Byrd & William Joiner assault on each other
George Morgan keeping a disorderly house
William Morgan & Dorcas Wade living in adultery

Spring Term 1848

Richard Singleton & Cloe Kennedy living in adultery
Daniel Langston & Polly Lane living in adultery
William N. Barnes assault on Lovit Pearce
Jesse Strickling retailing spirits by small measure
James & Mary Holland malicious mischief done at Nahunta Meeting House to the 
Society of Friends

Spring Term 1850

John Harrison assault on Bryant Bass
William Privet assault on John B. Jones
James Privet & John Hoskins burning William Barnes rails
Lonice Teachy & Jesse Davis fighting
John Bizzell for allowing his Negro man Needham to travel about his 
neighborhood & off his own land with a gun or fire arms on the Sabbath day

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The following are taken from pages in the folder with no court dates 

David Patterson & Chelly West fornication & adultery
William West & Penny Carraway fornication & adultery
John Casey retailing spirituous liquor without license
Lovet Brown & Henry Parnell affray
Allen Grant stealing corn from Elijah Bizzell
John Smith of Wayne & John Glasgow of Greene affray
Richard Singleton & Cloa Canidy fornication
Jesse Davis & Durby Etharedg affray
Cresey Boyt keeping disorderly house
Elijah Cotton assault on Josiah Combs
Arthur Martin assault on Hinton Glison
Jesse Turnage & Elizabeth Tailor fornication
Uriah Hill & Moses Cleney fighting
James Odum & Frank Flowers fighting
James Odum & Daniel Byrd fighting
Elbert Roberts lying in court & drunk during present term of court
Kinchen T. Best lying in court & drunk during present term of court
Abram Hill for distilling grain into ardent spirit
Owen Peel, M.A. Pennington & Aaron Park affray
David B. Everitte for not keeping up a finger board at the forks of the road 
near Samuel Smith's field on a portion of the road leading from Waynesboro to 
Duplin County
Thomas Hooks for not keeping up a finger board at the forks of the road near 
Samuel Smith's field on the road leading from Stony Run to Falling Creek
Murrell Martin & Benjamin Jones assault on John R. Williams (free col'd man)
Keday Raiford for cutting John Herring (free col'd man)
Levi T. Hannum selling goods to Negro Pack the property of Redin Cooly & Negro 
Peter the property of Jonathan Pike
John Lee stealing three hard dollars from Bryant Ellis
Mrs. Rhodes Clarissa Hatch for not keeping up her mill dam which is a part of 
the road leading from Waynesboro to Duplin - out of repair since August last
Handy Mitchell assault on Cullen Langston
Etheldred Yelvinton & John Sauls - the one for paying and the other receiving 
money for Sauls not to prosecute Yelvinton's Negro Jacob for stealing money 
out of Sauls Shop in early 1842
Peter Peacock of Johnston County for stealing a sheep bill & tobacco in Wayne
Jacob Davis, Windham Leavis & Uriah Newell affray Jan 1843
Willie Fort guilty for assault on John Sauls
Lovit Wise assault on David Jones
Robert Philips & Henry Powell affray

Source: NC Archives
Wayne County Miscellaneous Records
CR.103.928.7

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