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this County from Pennsylvania by John Risk, who sold him to Francis
Beattey, and was again sold by said Beattey to James Rosebrough with whom
he served last of his time, and is now likely to be defrauded out of his
freedom dues. May it therefore please your worships the premises to consider
and to appoint unto your petitioner such freedom as ye law directs, either
against Francis Beattey, or John Rosebrough, and your petitioner (as in duty
bound) shall pray.
AUGUST, 1780 (A).
To the gentlemen of the committee in the respective companies of Augusta
County. Gentlemen: From some late occurrences it has been judged necessary
to call a convention of delegates from the various counties and burroughs
of this colony to meet at Richmond, in the County of Henrico, on
the 20th of March next, and it is become a question whether the right of
electing such delegates is vested in your committee, or in the freeholders of
this County in general. You are requested to assemble the respective companies
to which you belong and deliberate whether it will be most convenient
for the freeholders to assemble to make such election themselves, or refer it
to the judgment of the committee, who are hereby requested to meet in
Staunton on Wednesday, the 22d instant, to make report of the determination
of the respective companies on this head, and consider of such other
matters that then may be laid before them. (Signed) Thomas Lewis, Sampson
Mathews, William Lewis, Alexander McClenachan, Michael Bowyer.
February 2, 1775.
Bohannon vs. Martin.--Copy of Proceedings. Writ, dated 21st December,
in 31st year of reign. By John Buchanan, gent., vs. Patrick Martain.--
Account of what militia was under command of Capt. Patrick Martain since
the 2d of May:
When Days When
Name. Entered. on duty. Discharged. Pay per die
Capt. Patrick Martain Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 10/
Adam Thompson Aug. 4th 28 1 Sept. 1/
Samuel Black Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
David Stuart, Serg. Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/4
John Perrie Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
Patrick English Aug. 4th 34 7 Sept. 1/
John Vance Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
William Hodge Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
Charles Erwin Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
Edward Hinds Aug. 4th 36 9 Sept. 1/
John Trimble Aug. 4th 12 16 Aug. 1/
John Beard Aug. 16th 24 9 Sept. 1/
Gabriel Guile Aug. 23rd 15 7 Sept. 1/
Archibald Gilkeson Aug. 16th 24 9 Sept. 1/
Jacob Guile Aug. 23rd 15 7 Sept. 1/
George Guile Aug. 23rd 15 7 Sept. 1/
John Jameson Aug. 26th 8 3 Sept. 1/
William Martain Aug. 26th 8 3 Sept. 1/
Sworn to 16th December, 1756, by Capt. Pat. Martin. Receipt, 16th
December, 1756, by Capt. Pat. Martin for above.
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The Country, debtor to provisions expended per Capt. Patrick Martin and
company, when on duty in his Majesty's service: To 300 lbs. flour from
Samuel Black at 10/ per 100, £1, 10, 0; to 16 lbs. butter from Michael
Harper at 4d., 2/; to 1/4 lb. salt from George Capler, 3/; to 1 cow from
Valentine Guile, £1, 1, 6; to 1/4 lb. salt from George Capler, 3/; to 42
lbs. mutton from Val. Guile, 5/3; to 183 lbs. flour from Michael Brock,
18/3-3/4; to 277 lbs. beef from Val. Guile at 10/ per 100, £1, 7, 8; to
wild meat from John Vance, 2/6; to carcas venison from John Garden,
1/6; to 35 lbs. flour from Val. Guile, 3/6; to 4 bushels potatoes from Val.
Guile, 4/6; to two horses, with driver, four days, at 4/6 per day,
18 shillings; to one horse at mill, 1/6; to same, 1/6; to four lbs. butter,
1/10-1/2; to impressed from John Givens 32 head (lead), £1; to provisions
from William Hoger, 7/0. October 22, 1756. Sworn to 16th
December, 1756, by Capt. Pat. Martin. Receipt, 16th December, 1756, by
Capt. Pat. Martin. Declaration in asst. against Pat. Martin for above
amounts.. A copy. (Signed) John Madison.
April 24, 1823.--Joseph Bell, Jr., deposes to same effect as Smith Thompson,
supra, as to his brother, Samuel Bell. Samuel entered the Army 8th
day of March, 1777. Samuel died in Staunton in 1788, leaving Sarah,
Thomas, John Bell and affiant as his legatees. Said Thomas Bell died
testate in Albemarle County; that said John also died testate in Augusta
County. Order entered by the Court in accordance with above facts, and
further that Thomas Bell left William Love, Robert Washington Bell,
Sally Jefferson Bell and Mary Wills his legatees.
DISTRICT COURT RECORDS.
JUDGMENTS.
1796 (A to K).
Rebecca McPheeters vs. Woods.--Jane McPheeters deposes, 11th September,
1795, that: She was with her sister, the plaintiff, at John Campbell's
some time in May, 1794, being the night before the said Campbell set off for
Greenbrier. Polly Notly-Patterson Thompson.
SEPTEMBER, 1802 (A to G).
Court of Rockbridge versus Steele.--List of delinquents and insolvents
in the County Levy for 1796 in the Northeast District, by J.
Purris, D. S. for S. Keys, S. R. C.: Abednego Casteel, runaway; William
Campbell, removed to Amherst; Torence Doran, removed; John Donnaho,
Jr., Botetourt; Peter Horn, removed; James Martin, removed to Kentucky;
Samuel Paxton, Sr., removed to Amherst; Samuel Raneck, removed to Kentucky;
Robert Simpkins, removed; Simpson Sturgeon, removed to Tennessee;
Peter Sumbro, removed to Augusta; Thomas Tongate, Amherst.
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APRIL, 1793 (A to Q).
We, the undernamed jurors for the Commonwealth of Virginia, present
that Alex. Sproul did, on the 18th day of January last, in the County
aforesaid, unlawfully make a forcible entry into the house and possession
of George Almarode, with arms, of which he was then possessed, and does
continue to keep out the said Almarode, to his hurt and damage. In witness
whereof the undernamed jurors have hereunto set their hands and seals this
13th day of February, 1792. (Signed) Francis Hull, John Summers, Robt.
Morris, Robert Cooper, Samuel McCutchan, Andrew Donaldson, Thomas
Boyd, John McCoskry, David Humphreys, James Cunningham, George
Everts, Jacob Wehrly, John Cunningham, Robert Hanna, John McCutchan,
Henry Venus, Ro. Tate, Hugh Dougherty, Henry Minger, William McCutchan,
John Foulwidder, John Logan, Mexard Berryhill, James Henry.
SEPTEMBER, 1802 (A to G).
Court of Rockbridge vs. Steel.--List of delinquents in County Levy with
the District of Hawkins Windell, Commissioner, for the year 1796: Lasty
F. Ayten, Frenchbroad; Eden Bales, Kentucky; James Bales, Kentucky;
James Buckerage, Cumberland; John Cowan, Cumberland; James Curry
removed; John Collins, Holsteen; John Duff, Tennessee; Samuel Aires,
Bath County; Mark Biggs, runaway; John Brown, Botetourt; Caleb Beggs,
Botetourt; Jacob Collier, Pennsylvania; Samuel Corwen, Botetourt; James
Caul, removed; Jesse Dolter, Augusta; Adam Dickey, dead; George Gabbert,
Greenbrier; Cutlip Gabbert, Augusta; James Henton, Rockingham;
John Hamilton, Kentucky; Joseph Hanmin, Botetourt; James McGill, Roanoke;
Jacob Oyler, Botetourt; George Rule, Botetourt; Joseph Snodgrass and
Benjamin Snodgrass, Kentucky; Henry Standoff, Bath County; Anthony
Watson, Tennessee; John Miller (shoemaker), runaway; Humphrey Ellis,
Botetourt; Armstrong Ellis, Botetourt; William Gill, Botetourt; Jean Henry,
Clinch; David Henry, Pennsylvania; John Jinkins, runaway; Mark Morris,
Jr., Roanoke (Botetourt); Wm. Reid, runaway; James Sewell, Kentucky;
Wm. Stuart, removed; Nicholas Lusong, Tennessee; John Varner, Botetourt;
Jacob Way, runaway; Robert Shields, Tennessee.
SEPTEMBER, 1802 (N to Z).
Minmo vs. Knowles.--Deed dated 27th November, 1797, between Thomas
Douthat, of Augusta, of first part, and William Nemmo, next friend to Mrs.
Jane Douthat. Witnesseth: Separation and misunderstanding have taken
place between Thomas and Jane, and Thomas is sensible of his imprudent
conduct towards the said Jane, and having resolved to reform and become a
good and friendly husband towards Jane, and bound in honor to make a
liberal support for his wife, conveys 200 acres, purchased of James Guy in
1794, on head of Great Calf Pasture; also a tract bought of James Hodg,
30 acres, and personal property, to stand seized for nine months, for benefit
of Jane and her son, Robert. Thomas agrees for the nine months to conduct
himself with temperance, sobriety and honesty, and will become a reformed
man, and will not during the said term disturb his wife, or knowingly
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come where she is, without her free consent (then upon his reformation
being certified by five gentlemen, she will live with him again; otherwise the
property to remain hers). Recorded in General Court, 18th June, 1798.
MUNROE'S LETTER, 1790
CHARLOTTESVILLE, November 19, 1790.
DEAR SIR:
Being appointed by the Assembly to the Senate of the United States, I
have thought it my duty to comply with the wishes of my country by accepting
that appointment. I shall sit out immediately to enter on the duties of
the office on the first of December. What effect this may produce on my
professional pursuits depends on the experiment to discover. My friends
assure me the Congress will adjourn in March, so that they will never
interfere. It is my most earnest wish to carry them on together and if
possible shall attend the Courts as usual. In any event, I must request of
you to put my business in the utmost forwardness, so that the friend who
may act for me may have no trouble and my clients no cause of complaint.
I enclose you the bond of Howard L____ to Butler, upon which you will
be pleased to issue a writ. I think you are acquainted with my causes. I
beg you, however, to write me on that subject to Philadelphia and I will
give you further information respecting them.
You will be so obliging as to give the above information to such of my
clients as you see, as I decline a public advertisement until I shall make an
experiment of this trust and determine how far it will suit me. I send you
a receipt for Mr. Stuart, to whom you will please make my respects, as also
to William (?) Bowyer.
With real esteem, I am, dear sir, sincerely yours,
JAS. MONROE.
P. S.--I send you Baskins's will, which was, contrary to my expectations,
rejected by the Judge. You will please issue a writ against the person who
recovered the judgment immediately, provided you receive this so as to do it
within three months from the judgment, that, I believe, being the time
allowed by law.
To James Lyle, Esq., Clerk of the District Court at Staunton.
SEPTEMBER, 1795 (A to K).
Wilson to Bowyer.--Contract between John Bowyer, of Rockbridge, and
Henry Williams, of same place. Williams has undertaken to build a brick
house for Bowyer upon the top of the hill where said Bowyer shall direct--
following dimensions: 56 feet in lengh and 20 wide; foundation to be 3
feet above ground at the lowest part; first story to be 12 feet high between
the ceiling and the lower floor; second story to be 10 feet between the second
floor and the ceiling; as many doors and windows as said Bowyer shall think
fit; bricks round the windows and doors to be rubbed and made smooth;
a brick wall each side of the passage, one brick thick in the lower story;
four fireplaces, two below and two above, of the size Bowyer shall direct;
chimneys to extend four feet at the lowest (above the top of the house);
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the whole to be done and finished in the strongest and best manner that
such work is usually done, and to be finished by the first of October next.
Bowyer is to pay £190, half before 1st July next; remainder when work
is done. Dated, 19th March, 1793.
N. B.--The hith of the house is to be 26 feet, of brick work.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, November 15, ____
DEAR SIR:
Permit me to present to your acquaintance the bearer, Mr. Hansford, a
young gentleman who intends to practice in your Court, and whom you will
find remarkably well read in the law, and in other respects a very sensible,
worthy young man. I shall thank you to present him to any of your
acquaintance of the Court, that he may become known, as he deserves. I
wrote you lately and requested you to file for me declarations in the cases
of Long vs. Turk, and Garber vs. Humphreys. If you have not been able to
render me this service, he will do it himself.
I am, dear sir, very respectfully yours,
JAS. MONROE.
J. Lyle, Esq., Clerk of Staunton District Court. By Mr. Hansford.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, 8th August, 1790.
DEAR SIR:
The Justices of Pendleton County are desirous to remove their Clerk from
office on account of his misconduct. The gentleman who bears this being in
a hurry, and some of my Acts of the Assembly being loaned out and not able
to command them, I have been able to find nothing on the subject but the
clause in the Act of Government, page 35, putting the inspection of their
conduct under the General Court and the District Court law, whereby it is
transferred to the Districts. Perhaps there is nothing else on it. The mode
of process is not designated, whether by motion or otherwise, but presume
there can be no other, and in that case, whether notice is to be given by
those who made it, or a citation to be issued by the Clerk, citing him to
appear to defend himself against a motion to that effect, stating the
charges. As this is written within your line, shall thank you to attend to
it and take such steps as you may think proper.
Respectfully, I am, JAS. MONROE.
Mr. Lyle, Clerk of the District Court at Staunton.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, 29th June, 1792.
DEAR SIR:
You were so obliging as to undertake to speak to some suitable person in
Staunton to make for me a light wagon, for two horses, for plantation use,
on your return, may I request of you to drop me a line for Charlottesville
informing whether you have been able to engage one, the terms, and the
time it will be finished; such as are used in the Northern States to carry
the produce of a farm in, and not such as we employ to carry tobacco, &c.,
to market, is the kind I want. It should, however, for the kind, be strong,
sound, well formed and the ironwork good.
Very respectfully, I am, dear sir, your very humble servant,
JAS. MONROE.
James Lyle, Esq., Staunton.
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RICHMOND, June 9, 1791.
DEAR SIR:
Tell Stuart I congratulate him on his marriage.
JAS. MONROE.
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Patent to Jacob Stover, 5,000 acres in Spottsylvania. Dated 15th December,
1733: In St. Mark's Parish, on West Side of the Great Mountains, and
bounded: black walnuts and a hickory on Shenandoah River, two sycamores,
to foot of a naked mountain at upper end of a large island, white oak,
Spanish oak, three pines, a red oak, three locust trees. Consideration: The
importation of one hundred persons to dwell within our Colony and Dominion
of Virginia, whose names are: Jacob, Catherine, Abraham, Christian, Isaac,
Jacob, Joseph, Mathew, Sarah, Catherine, Ann, Susanna, Barbary, Dorothy,
Rachel Miller, Jacob, Anna, Isaac, Abraham, John, Jacob, Joseph, Peter,
George, Calkins, Christopher, Anna, Rachel, Catherine, Sarah, Susanna,
Barbary, Dorothy, John, Anna, Jacob, John, Abraham, Isaac, Rosina, Susanna,
Catherine, Ragley Mire (Nure?), Henry, Catherine, Henry, John,
Isaac, Catherine, Anna, Rachel Sowder, Henry, Christiana, Jacob, Henry,
Paul, Rudy, Joseph, Peter, Isaac, John, Hamudy, Stophar, Susanna, Rachel,
Barbara, Claplir, Margaret, Elizabeth Hain, John, Barbel, Rudy, Chr.,
John, Mathew, Joseph, Isaac, Peter, David, William, Anna, Christiana, Frenley,
Robby, Dorothy Funk, Jacob, Frina, Christian, John, Isaac, Rudy, Mathew,
Stopher, Peter, Joseph, David, Jacob, Jane, Dorothy, Christiana Sowder.
Miss Sarah Price, to the Major William Price, Richmond:
DEAR SISTER:
Enclosed is a statement of your brother, William, yours and my accounts,
wherein his estate is indebted to you £250, 11, 7, and I am £157, 8, 5-1/2,
amounting to £408, 0, 0, with interest from January 12, 1797. When Mr.
Talliaferro was here I showed the settlement with your brother William in
his handwriting. I believe he has them. We are all well, and joins me in
love to everybody.
I am your affectionate brother,
Ro. DOUTHAT.
N. B.--If it was possible I would go down, but that is out of the question.
I expect to be down early in May for you and sister Jane, that (?) I hope
Major and Mrs. Price and sister Lucy will come also.
This day 26 years I left Ireland.
R. D.
March 1st, 1810.
APRIL, 1802 (M to Z).
Piper vs. Hartley.--This may certify that on complaint being made to me,
as a member of the Abolition Society, &c., that a certain Negro Tom was
illegally held in slavery by a certain Peter Piper, of Franklin Township,
York County. I attended, and on viewing the writings given to Peter Piper
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by Peter Hartley respecting the sale of the said negro, I found that they had
originated in Maryland, and that of course the boy had been brought from
Maryland to the State of Pennsylvania, which is contrary to the laws of
Pennsylvania, and by which means the said Negro Tom obtained his freedom
and is now a free man. Certified this fourteenth day of December, 1799,
by me.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT,
A Member of the Abolition Society for the relief of free negroes unlawfully
held in bondage.
To whom concerned.
STATE of PENNSYLVANIA,
Adams County, ss:
Personally appeared before me, Abraham Russell, Peter Piper, who being
duly sworn, saith that about the month of January, 1787, he purchased from
Peter Hartley a negro boy named Tom as a slave for life, for the sum of
£50 and a fat hog valued at £2. Received a bill of sale from Hartley,
which is mislaid, and that through the interference of Benjamin Wright the
said negro boy was liberated from slavery in the beginning of the year 1792.
PETER (mark) PIPER.
Sworn to 16th August, 1800.--A. RUSSELL.
Certificate that Russell is a Justice of the Peace.
ADAMS COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA.
15th August, 1800. Benjamin Wright deposes upon his solemn affirmation
(being conscientiously scrupulous against making oath) that being one
of the Incorporation Society for the Relief of Negroes Held in Slavery
Contrary to the Laws of Pennsylvania, and having had information that Peter
Piper held a negro boy called Tom as a slave contrary to law, called on
said Peter Piper, who informed this affirmant that he had purchased the boy
from a Peter Hartley as a slave, and showed him the bill of sale that Peter
Hartley had executed to him, the said Peter Piper. This affirmant then told
Peter Piper that he could not hold the boy in slavery by the bill of sale, the
law not being complied with in recording the boy, and in order to liberate
the boy this deponent proceeded to search the records of Cumberland County
(in which County the said negro boy was born), and found he was not
recorded there, and on returning to the County where the boy was held, said
affirmant effected the liberation of the said negro boy, according to the
laws of Pennsylvania, and farther saith not.
BENJAMIN WRIGHT.
Sworn to, 15th August, 1800, before William McLean, John Dickson, Walter
Smith.
DISTRICT COURT.
List of deeds recorded in Orange County executed by Benjamin Borden,
1734-1745:
To John Patterson, 26th November, 1741; same, same date; Robert
Poage, 13th October, 1742; William Smith, 17th September, 1742; William
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Fearnley and wife, 25th November, 1742; John Steavenson, 11th April,
1743; John Buchanan, 6th April, 1743; Alexander Walker, 14th April,
1743; James Walker, 14th April, 1743; John Walker, 15th April, 1743;
James Moore, 13th April, 1743; James Robinson, 15th April, 1743; Elizabeth
Hunter, 10th May, 1743; William Hall, 8th April, 1743; Andrew Baxter,
15th March, 1742; William Evans, 13th March, 1742; Daniel Lyle, 8th
April, 1743; Richard Consort, 14th March, 1742-3; John Carr, 7th July,
1743; Charles Dohoney, 11th February, 1741-2; William Guin, 7th July,
1742; Robert Culton, 6th May, 1742; John Buchanan, 15th July, 1742;
Joseph Colton, 6th May, 1742; Charles Hays, 1st June, 1742; George
Henderson, 1st June, 1742; John Lowery, 16th August, 1742; John Moore, 16th
August, 1742; James Eakins, 26th June, 1742; Samuel Dunlap, 16th August,
1742; Samuel McCutchan, 3d August, 1742; Patrick Hays, 16th August,
1742; William Lockridge, 25th June, 1742; William Porter, 16th August,
1742; Robert Dunlap, 25th June, 1742; William Cowden, 10th July, 1742;
Mathew Lyle, 3d August, 1742; Alexander McClary, 7th June, 1742; James
Trimble, 2d August, 1742; John Mathews, 7th June, 1742; John Shields,
2d August, 1742; John Patterson, 21st August, 1742; James Martin, 20th
July, 1742; William McCanless, 16th August,, 1742; Henry Kirkham, 26th
July, 1742; James Young, 17th June, 1742; Richard Wood, 17th June,
1742; Samuel and William Wood, 6th July, 1742; Gilbert Campbell, 6th
July, 1742; Joseph Lapsley, 6th July, 1742; John Gray, 6th July, 1742;
Robert Heastane, 6th July, 1742.
1781 or 1782.
To the Worshipful Court of Augusta County, the petition of the sundry
inhabitants in the bounds of Captain Long's Company of Militia humbly
showeth:
That your petitioners, while headed by Captain Christian, and since headed
by Captain Long, then enjoyed the greatest tranquility, but now likely to he
clouded by the loss of so noble an officer by a mere delusion.
The most of us can, and will (if called upon), undertake to declare on
oath that Captain Long behaved himself at the Battles of Hot Water and
Jamestown as a good soldier and a noble officer. As to his conduct at York
we cannot pretend to say farther than from the most authentic accounts that
we could collect he had not that fair play that a true citizen ought to have
had. From which motives induces us to believe, and truly hope, your worships
will, when you come to look at the affair, reinstate him in his post,
that we may continue our old rank, as we have ever been faithful subjects,
contributed every thing in our power for the benefit of the States, turned
out cheerfully our quota of men on every occasion.
Therefore, as your worships is the only door we are to go through to
justice, humbly hope you will recommend him to his Excellency, the Governor,
which will prevent us from falling from our old rank, to wit, the
second in the Battalion to the youngest, and your petitioners shall, as in
duty bound ever pray, &c &c.
(Signed) Jas. Davis, John Christian, Jr., Rich'd Shires, Saml. Blackwood,
John Brooks. Jr., Robert Scott, Samuel Brooks, John Black, William Black,
Joseph Bell, Ensign; Thomas Rutledge, Gill. Christian, James Bert, Gilbert
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Christian, Giles Brooks, W. Christian, William Davis, Thomas Kear,
Benjamin Carr, James Wright, John Bell, Edward Rutledge, Samuel Armstrong,
Neal O'Dear, Joseph Kerr, Robert Christian, Francis Best, Charles Donely,
Jonathan Brooks, Jacob Gabert, Anthony Black, Alexander Wright, William
Shields, William Brown, Robert Christian, Lieutenant; Gabriel Alexander,
James Bready, Jacob van Lear, John Christian, Mathew Alexander, John
Bready, Joseph Colter, John Alexander, John Bready, George Marshall.
At the battle of Jamestown I can assist, as per witness. (Signed) Michael
Coalter, then Lieutenant under him. Capt. Samuel McCutchan, Capt. Patrick
Buchanan, Richard Thompson, Col. William Grahams James.
1781-2 (Part 2).
The Commonwealth of Virginia, debtor to John Black, Sr., for sundry
expenses exhibited on John Davis, a soldier in the Western Battalion, being
wounded on the 26th day of November, 1780, and had his leg taken off at
the said John Blacks, on the South River, Augusta County, Virginia, viz:
To eight days for surgeon and said Davis and a man to attend at 40 dollars
per day each (960 dollars), £288; to 27 days' board for surgeon's mate, a
man to attend, and said Davis, at 40 dollars per day each (3,240 dollars),
£972; to five days' boarding for the surgeon's mate and attendant during
their time of settling business and preparing for their March, at 40 dollars
per day per man (400 dollars) £120; to seven yards of a six hundred at
£12 per yard, £84; to hire of a man and horse for one day at 50 dollars,
£15; to damaging a bed, £100; to washing bandages and sundry linens,
£100; to a coffin, £100; to digging a grave, £40; to four lbs. of candles,
£14, 8, 0; to funeral expenses, £50. Sworn to in Court, 15th May, 1781.
OLD PAPERS.
I do certify that William Slaven was chose Ensign in my Company of
Augusta Militia in the room of Jonathan Humphries, who hath resigned his
commission, and he is recommended to the Court of said County for a
commission. CHARLES HAMILTON, Captain.
October 8, 1782.
To the Worshipful Court of Augusta:
We have appointed Thomas Cartmell, Ensign for the Company in Greenbrier.
Desires he may be sworn to his commission. Given under my hand
this 17th day, November, 1781. GEORGE POAGE.
1781-2.
RICHMOND, 10th May, 1782.
To the Worshipful Court of Augusta County.
GENTLEMEN:--Inclosed you'll receive the commissions containing the
names of the gentlemen recommended.
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I beg leave to observe that I have received a letter from Thomas Hughes,
Esq., of your Court, wherein he informs me that the Court has reinstated
Capt. Francis Long (who was broke for cowardice) in his former commission.
If so, I humbly conceive that the Court have exceeded their power, for
they have only power by law, or the Constitution, to recommend, and I am
persuaded (should that be the case) that it is without precedent that any
officer that has had a legal inquest by a court-martial and broke for
cowardice should be recommended as fit to take command of a Company. I need
not observe the ill consequences that will attend such a precedent, and
therefore request, should such a proceeding have taken place, that the Court
will please reconsider the matter and recommend some other fit person.
I am with all due respect, gentlemen, your humble servant,
SAMP. MATHEWS.
I, Sampson Mathews, a magistrate for the County of Augusta, do hereby
certify that I have administered the oaths prescribed by law to be taken by
a Governor unto Thomas Nelson, Jr., Esq.
Given under my hand at Staunton this 19th day of June, 1781.
(A copy.) SAMP. MATHEWS.
Return of patroling done by the patrol of Staunton from May 24 until
June 26, 1782: Patrolled June 2, at night, viz: William Blair, Francis Mora,
Anthony Mustoe, David Greiner, Dennis Calaghan; June 6th and 8th, Blair,
Mora, Mustoe; June 18th and 26th, Blair, Mora, Mustoe and Greiner.
Sworn to by Capt. William Blair, 28th June.
Return of the patrol of Staunton from April 20, 1782: April 20th, Wm.
Blair (Captain), Francis Mora, Anthony Mustoe, Dennis Callaghan; April
24th, 28th, 30th, Blair, Mora, Callaghan, Mustoe; May 4th, 8th and 12th,
Blair, Mora, Mustoe; May 22d, Blair, Mora, Mustoe and David Greiner.
Sworn to by Blair, May 24.
Following paper in package marked 1755-56-57--it is apparently a fragment
--on the back is written:
"A Copy. JOHN RANDOLPH, C. H. B."
Paid in Northampton:
To the County . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7070
To:
Paid in Hampshire, in part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 597
Paid in Lunenburg, in part . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 770
To Robt. Brackenridge, Sheriff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 680
To David Stewart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
To John Brown . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
To Geo. Robinson, Geo. Rowland, Geo. Horbinson, James Humphries,
Matthew Sheddon, Mr. Moore, Jeremiah Green, Philip Watkins,
John McAfee, Andrew Gaughagan, Peter Farr and George Duck,
each 140 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1680
527