# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 1256 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | Jonathan Blackman, bearer of William Langley's note, v. James Langley | | **Dates** | 1825-1826 | | **Roll** | Box 28, Roll 1256 | | **Pages in source images** | 8 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 1256 (Box 28). Original records held by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC. Transcribed from photographs of the original judgment roll (image file: [Judgment Roll 1256 - Blackman vs Langley.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%201256%20-%20Blackman%20vs%20Langley.pdf), 8 pages). ## Disclaimer This transcription was made using AI (Claude, by Anthropic) from photographs of the original court papers. It is an attempted transcription, not a certified copy. Faded ink, difficult handwriting, torn folds and damaged pages make some readings uncertain, and errors are possible. Check the original images before relying on any reading. ## Transcription conventions - Original spelling, capitalization and abbreviations are kept as written. - `[?]` = uncertain reading; `[illegible]` = could not be read; `[blank]` = a space left empty on the original. - `[struck: ...]` = printed or written text that is lined through on the original. - `[...]` and *[italic bracketed notes]* = editorial explanations added by the transcriber; `[letters]` inside a word = letters supplied to expand an abbreviation. - On printed forms, handwritten fill-ins are shown in ***bold italics*** where it helps to tell them apart from the printed text. - "PDF p." numbers refer to the page order of the source image file, which is not always the order the papers were written in. ## Transcription **PDF p. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration** > [Left panel:] > Ass[esse]d - $204.22 > Int on $181 from 30 Octr 1826 > Atty - $15.64 > Clerks - 6.40 > Shffs - 3.30 25.34 > $229.56 > > [Lower left:] > Pltf admits that all the credits in this case amount to thirty three dollars reckoning & settling all matters between them this day Aug 7th 1826 acknowledged to [me] A Howard > > [Center panel:] > Roll 49 11 > B28 R 1256 > Lancaster > Jonathan Blackman > bearer > vs } Declaration in > James Langley } Assumpsit > $300 > McWillie & Howard Pltf attys > > Filed in my Office 23 Sept 1826 > Ord. for Judgment same day > Jno McKenzie ccpl > > Recorded > > I assess the damages due to the plaintiff in this case to two hundred & four dollars & twenty two cents - with interest on One hundred & eighty one dollars [struck: with & fourteen] thirtieth October 1826 > Jno McKenzie ccpl > > Cont'd Spring 182[6?] > > [Right panel, written vertically:] > (Copy note) Thirty seven months after date in the year 1824 I promise to pay Wm Langley or bearer two hundred dollars value received this 19 day of November 1821 > Jas Langley > Test Jas Blackmon --- **PDF p. 2 - Declaration** > State of South Carolina } > Lancaster District } To wit > James Langley was attached to answer to Jonathan Blackman bearer of William Langley otherwise called Wm Langley of a plea of trespass on the case and so forth and whereupon the said Jonathan by McWillie and Howard his attorneys complains that whereas the said James on the nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one at Lancaster Court House in the district and State aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this Court did make his certain Note in writing commonly called a promissory note bearing date the day and year aforesaid by which said note the said James by the name of Jas Langley did promise to pay or cause to be paid unto William Langley by the name of Wm Langley or bearer two hundred dollars thirty seven months after date in the year 1824 for value received, and the said William Langley to whom or to the bearer of the said promissory note the payment of the said sum of money therein specified was by the same note to be made, after the making the said note and before the payment of the said sum of money therein specified to wit on the nineteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one duly delivered over the said [struck: note] promissory note to the said Jonathan Blackman, who thereby then and there became and was and still is the lawful bearer thereof and entitled to receive and demand payment of the said sum of money therein specified whereof the said James afterward to wit on the day and year last aforesaid had notice, by reason whereof and by force of the statute in such case made and provided and made of force in this State the said James became liable to pay the said Jonathan the said sum of money in the said Note contained according to the tenor and effect of the said Note and being so liable the said James afterwards to wit on the same day and year aforesaid at the place aforesaid and within the jurisdiction aforesaid in consideration thereof upon himself did assume and to the said Jonathan then and there faithfully promised that he would well and truly pay the said Jonathan the said sum of money in the said Note mentioned according to the tenor and effect of the said Note. Yet the said James his several promises and assumptions aforesaid in form aforesaid made in no wise regarding but contriving and fraudulently intending the said Jonathan in this behalf craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud the said several sums of money above mentioned or any part thereof to the said Jonathan hath not paid except [struck: thirty three] dollars [struck: twenty five cents] although often times afterwards required so to do but the same to the said Jonathan to pay the said James hath hitherto altogether refused and still does refuse to the damage of the said Jonathan three hundred dollars and therefore he brings suit and so forth. > McWillie & Howard > Pltffs attys --- **PDF p. 3 - Plaintiff's attorneys' bill (docket of the judgment; scanned sideways)** > Lancaster > Jonathan Blackman > vs } Judgment > James Langley > > Atty Bill > Writ - 4.20 > Declaration - 5.36 > Judgment - 3.21 > Execution - 1.29 > $14.14 > Bail - 1.50 > 15.64 --- **PDF p. 4 - Judgment (printed form: "Judg. on Writ of Enq. Dam. Assessed by Clerk" - Carey's Print)** > ***Fall*** Term 182***6*** > AND now at this day, to wit, the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***twenty six*** come[s] the said ***Jonathan [S.? / his mark] Blackman*** the Plaintiff by ***his*** Attorney[s] aforesaid, and pray[s] that the ***said James Langley*** the Defendant to the declaration of ***him*** the said Plaintiff may answer; and the said Defendant being solemnly called, come[s] not, but make[s] default whereby the said Plaintiff remain thereof against ***him*** undefended. Wherefore it is considered by the Court now here, that the said Plaintiff ought to recover against the said Defendant the damages by ***him*** sustained by reason of the premises: But because it is unknown to the Court what those damages are: > IT IS THEREFORE ORDERED, That the same be referred to the Clerk, of the said Court, to ascertain the sum actually due by the said Defendant to the said Plaintiff pursuant to the direction of the Act of the General Assembly of the said State, in such case made and provided; and the said Clerk thereupon having ascertained the same, and assessed the Damages, of the said Plaintiff by reason of the premises, besides ***his*** costs and charges by ***him*** expended in and about prosecuting ***his*** suit in this behalf, to ***two hundred and four dollars twenty two cents***. > THEREFORE, It is considered by the Court now here, that the said Plaintiff do recover against the said Defendant the damages so ascertained and assessed aforesaid; and also for ***his*** costs and charges aforesaid, to ***him*** by the Court now here, with ***his*** assent adjudged; which said damages, costs and charges, in the whole, amount to ***two hundred & 29*** Dollars ***fifty six*** Cents, and be the said defendant in mercy and so forth. > > [Left margin, written vertically:] Judgment entered up & Execution issued 18 Novr 1826 > Jno McKenzie ccpl --- **PDF p. 5 - The original promissory note (torn at the top)** > [Thirty] seven [months] after date in [the year] 1824 I promise to pay Wm Langley or bearer two hundred Dollars value Rec'd this 19 Day of November 1821 > Test Jas. Blackmon Jas Langley **PDF p. 6 - Back of the note (receipts for part payment)** > January 3d 1825 > Rec'd seventeen dollars fifty cents in part of this note > Jonathan (his mark) Blackman > Amasa Howard > > [Ja]ny [? / July?] 19th 1825 > Rec'd of the within note Two dollars fifty cents > Jonathan (his mark) Blackman > Burrel Blackman --- **PDF p. 7 - Affidavit of Jonathan Blackman, 10 Dec 1825** > South Carolina > Lancaster District > Personally came Jonathan Blackmon and on oath saith that James Langley is indebted to this deponent in the sum of one hundred and twenty one dollars seventy five cents besides interest due on a note payable to William Langley or bearer. > Sworn before me > Decr 10th 1825 Jonathan (his mark) Blackman *[No magistrate's signature is visible.]* --- **PDF p. 8 - Original writ (attachment), 1825 (printed form: "Original Writ" - Faust, Print.)** > THE STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. > To all and singular the Sheriffs of the said State - Greeting. > YOU, and each of you, are hereby commanded, without delay, to attach the bod***y of James Langley*** wheresoever ***he*** may be found within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel ***him*** to be and appear before the Associate Judges of the said State, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at ***Lancaster Court House*** in and for the District of ***Lancaster*** on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next, to answer to ***Jonathan Blackman bearer of William Langley otherwise called Wm Langley of a plea of trespass on the case and so forth and also for certain promises and assumptions by the said James to the said Jonathan made and not performed to his damage three hundred dollars***. > And have you there this Writ, before the Clerk of the said Court, fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court. > WITNESS the Honorable ***Elihu H Bay*** Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State, at ***Lancaster Court House*** the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***twenty five*** and in the ***fiftieth*** Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > ***McWillie & Howard*** Pltf's Att. > [Left margin:] Jno McKenzie ccpl