FAYETTE COUNTY, TN - COURT - Thomas Avertt, Aiding Runaway Slaves
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TENNESSEE STATE ARCHIVES 
ROLL #1  FAYETTE Co., TN 
CIRCUIT COURT MINUTES-Civil & Criminal
Volume G    Sept 1842---May 1844


PAGE 22; January Term  1844
State of Tennessee
          vs
Thomas AVERRT
   This day came John Carruthers, the Attorney General, on the part of the 
State, and moved the Court that the conditional Judgement heretofore in this 
case, rendered against the Defendant in this Court, be made final and 
absolute. And it appearing to the Court, that on the 10th day of December, 
1842, Thomas AVERRT, before Seten HUDSPETH, Sheriff of Fayette County, 
Tennessee, executed his appeariance bond wherein, he acknowledged himself 
to owe the State of Tennessee One Thousand Dollars to be void, if he, the said 
Thomas AVERRT, should appear before the Judge of the Circuit Court at the 
Courthouse in the town of Somerville, Fayette County, on the first Thursday 
after the 3rd Monday in January next, thereafter on a charge of unlawfully 
furnishing negroes with free papers, for the purpose of aiding and assisting
said slaves in running away from their masters, and abide by such sentance as 
should be pronounced by said Court in the premises, or surrender himself into 
custody and not depart without leave of the Court--And it further appearingto 
the Court that afterwards at the January Term of said Court 1843, the said 
Thomas AVERRT, being solemnly called to come into Court and answer said 
charge, and coming not, but making default, was by the Court, adjudged to 
forfeit and pay the State of Tennessee the sum of One Thousand Dollars, 
according to the tenor and effect of his said bond, unless he showed good 
cause to the contrary, at the next term--And it further appearing that a scire 
facias and also an alias scire facias have issued from said Court, to notify 
said Defendant of the premises, and warn him to appear in said Court, and show 
cause why the State of Tennessee shall not have execution against him for the 
amount of the recovery, so had as aforesaid against him, and that said scire 
facias---? Come into the hands of the Sheriff of Fayette County, and by him, 
that he has returned on each of them, that Thomas AVERRT is not to be found--
And the said Thomas AVERRT, being now here again, solemnly called to come into 
Court, and answer the said scine facias, but coming not and making default. It 
is therefore considered by the Court that the said motion be sustained, and 
that the aforesaid judgement for One Thousand Dollars, be made absolute, and 
that the State of Tennessee, recover the same, together with the costs in this 
behalf accuring for which execution shall issue.