WILKES COUNTY, NC - COURT - Summons and Bond for John Kerley
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John Kerley A Horse Thief?

      North Carolina Wilkes County
We John Carley and William Carley 1st and Wm Carley 2nd all of the 
county Each of us acknoledge our selves and each of our heirs Ex ton
administrator U C to be indebted to the governor of thestate of North 
Carolina the form of five hundred pounds of good and lawfull money of 
the stats common to be levied on there goods and chattles lands 
tenements on condition that the above bounded John Carley make his 
personal apearance at the next Superior Court to be held at the court 
house in Morgan  on the first day of March   there another to receive 
such punishment as the court shall inflect on him and that he canot   
that court without leave as witness where of each of us have hereunto 
set our hands and seals this 22nd day of January 1795

                                                  his
                                              John   Carley
  Test                                            mark

   George Brown                               Wm  his mark Carley jr
                                              Wm  his mark Carley sr


North Carolina Wilks County to any sworn office  told you are hereby 
Required in the name of that state to sums
Elender Jones Wm Carley Frances Monday and Bendexten Daniel to apear 
at the next Superior Court to be held for the district of Morgan at 
Bark Court house the first day of March next there and then to give 
testemony on behalf of John Carley on act of been accused for 
felonusly steeling a horse of the property of Isaac Eledge fail not 
given undor any hand this 26th day of February
                                George Brown 1795