PATRICK COUNTY, VA - COURT - Order Book "5" (Selected Entries, 1844)
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JANUARY COURT
(11 January 1844)

An inventory and appraisement of the estate of John Poindexter decd. was 
returned into Court examined and ordered to be recorded.

Jessee Corn, William Critz, Arch Carter, Jeremiah Burnett and Crawford 
Turner Gentlemen Justices convened for the purpose of holding an examining 
Court for the trial of Wade Duncan and John Duncan for feloniously stealing 
and carrying away from the possession of Lewis Sharp a red pided(?) yearlin 
the property of the said Lewis Sharp.

Administration of the estate of Jessee Murphy Sr. decd. is granted to 
Elizabeth Cole and Pryer Tatum as admrx. and admr. with the will annexed of 
the said Murphy and thereupon the said Elizabeth Cole and Pryer Tatum 
entered into acknowledged a bond in the penalty of eight thousand dollars 
conditioned as the law directs with Harriet Murphy and John Tatum Sr. their 
securities.  They have taken the oath required by law, whereupon certificate 
of administration is granted them in due form.

Ordered that John G. Lee, Carter France, Hardin Reynolds and Jacob Clark or 
any three of them being first sworn before some Justice of the peace be and 
they are hereby appointed commissioners to appraise in current money the 
personal and real estate of Jessee Murphy Sr. decd. and make report to the 
Court.

An account of A. Staples clerk of this Court for ten dollars and fifty cents 
was presented in Court examined allowed and ordered to be certified to the 
auditor of public accounts.

Administration of the estate of Harvey Fitzgerald decd. is granted to James 
Fitzgerald and thereupon the said James Fitzgerald having taken the oath 
prescribed by law entered into & acknowledged a bond in the penalty of two 
hundred dollars conditioned as the law directs with A. Staples and Micajah 
Francis his securities whereupon certificate of administration is granted in 
due form of law.

Ordered that John D. Cheatham, John Ranegly and Alexander A. Moir or any two 
of them being first sworn before some Justice of the peace be and they are 
hereby appointed commissioners to appraise in current money the estate of 
Harvey Fitzgerald decd. and make return thereof to the Court.

Three accounts of Henry Tuggle Deputy for Norman Staples Shff of Patrick, 
one for $4.20 cents, the other for $4.20 cents and the third for the like 
sum was returned into Court examined and ordered to be certified to the 
auditor of public accounts.


MARCH COURT
(27 March 1844)

Satisfactory evidence having been exhibited to the Court that Harvey 
Fitzgerald decd. was a pensioner of the United States at the rate of twenty 
dollars per annum, was a resident of Patrick County State of Virginia and 
died in the County of Patrick in the state of Virginia in the year 1843 on 
the 29th day of November, that he left a widow whose name is Elizabeth 
Fitzgerald, the same is ordered to be certified to the war department.


JUNE COURT
(24? June 1844)

To Armstread Newman do patrolling 55 hours @ $3.42     [blank]
To William A. Sandifur for A. Staples for 6 days work
                                             on his road   3.00
To Thomas N. Shelton for patrolling 27 hours @            17.24
To Spencer F. Nowlin  do  225   do @                      14.05½
To David Hall     do   146 do  @                           9.37½
To Armstread W. Newman  do  158  do @                     10.12½


(Transcribed by Mary C. Smith from Patrick Co., Va., Order Book 5, 
1840-1846, unpaged, Library of Virginia Microfilm Reel #19.)


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