# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 1331

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Daniel Frederick & Middleton Joyner, Executors of F. Joyner, v. George Sims (for costs) |
| **Dates** | 1828-1829 |
| **Roll** | Box 34 [?], Roll 1331 |
| **Pages in source images** | 3 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 1331 (Box 34 [?]). Original records held by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC. Transcribed from photographs of the original judgment roll (image files: folder [1331](1331/), 3 photographs).

## 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.
- "Img." numbers refer to the photographs in the roll's image folder, in file-name order, which is not always the order the papers were written in.

**Notes on these images:**

- Imgs. 2 and 3 were photographed sideways and upside down and were rotated for reading.
- This roll holds only the execution for costs and a bill of costs. George Sims had sued the executors of F. Joyner by summary process ("Sum. Pro."); the court found the executors not indebted, and this execution is against Sims for the executors' costs.
- The executors' names are written "Danl. Frederick & Middn. Joyners [sic] Exrs of F. Joyner." The deceased's given name appears only as the initial "F."
- The box number on the docket (Img. 1) is read "B34"; it is written over.

## Transcription

**Img. 2 - Writ of fieri facias on summary process (printed form: "Fi. Fa. on Sum. Pro. - Camden Press")**

> The State of South-Carolina. BY THEIR HONORS THE ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
>
> WHEREAS ***George Sims*** the Plaintiff exhibited ***his*** Petition before the said Judges in the Court of Common Pleas, at ***Lancaster*** Court-House, against ***Danl. Frederick & Middn. Joyners Exrs of F. Joyner*** the Defendant***s***. And whereas upon the hearing thereof, it appeared to the said Court that the said Defendant***s*** ***were not*** indebted to the said Plaintiff [struck: in the sum of] ***as he had alledged in his process***
>
> THEREFORE it is considered that the ***said Defendants*** do recover against [struck: the said Defendant] the said [struck: sum of] ***George*** [struck: with interest on the principal sum of this decree, being the sum of ... from the ... day of ... in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ... up to the day of the satisfaction of this execution; as also] the sum of ***Twenty eight Dollars for their*** costs and charges, which ***they*** sustained by occasion thereof.
>
> TO ALL AND SINGULAR THE SHERIFFS OF THE SAID STATE - GREETING.
>
> YOU, and each of you, are hereby authorized and required to make, or cause to be made, of the goods and chattels, lands and tenements of the above named ***George Sims*** [struck: Defendant] in which soever of your districts the same shall be found, [struck: as well] the said sum of ***Twenty eight Dollars*** [struck: and interest aforesaid, on the principal sum aforesaid, as the sum of]
>
> and have you that money before the Associate Judges, of the said State, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at ***Lancaster*** Court-House, on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next to render to the said ***Exrs*** [struck: Plaintiff] for ***their*** [struck: debt,] costs and charges aforesaid. And have you there this Writ, before the Clerk of the said Court, [struck: fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court] ***according to Law***.
>
> WITNESS ***John McKenzie*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***fifteenth*** day of ***November*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-***eight*** and in the ***fifty third*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***Steph. D. Miller*** Plaintiff's Attorney
>
> [Left margin:] Jno. McKenzie Clk

**Img. 1 - Back of the fi. fa. (levy on land and bill of costs)**

> [Left panel:]
> Entered in my office
> 17 Novr 1828
>     John Sims Shff
>
> Entered in my [struck: illegible]
> Office 9 Feby 1829
>     Wm. Williams Shff
>
> I have by S. Beckham my Lawful deputy levied on the plantation where the defendant lives as his property, containing two hundred acres more or less adjoining lands of N. Barber [?], W. Cauthen & others 17 Septr [?] 1829 - 11 miles
>     W. Williams Shff
>
> [Center panel:]
> (18)     205     R 67 [?]
> Lancaster
> B34 [?] R 1331
>
> Exrs of F. Joyner
>    v } Fi. Fa. for Costs
> George Sims
>
> Steph. D. Miller
>
> Attys Cost - $12.00
> Clks - 10.00
> Shffs - 6.00     28.00
> Sims - 1.00 [?]
>
> [Right panel:]
> Attys Cost
> Appearing & defending - $4.00
> 8 Sub Writs - 8.00     $12.00
>
> Clks Cost
> Sum Pros - $1.50
> 16 S Writs - 8.00
> Atte on [illegible] - .50     10.00
>
> Shffs Cost
> Serving 3 Copies - 4.50
> 30 Miles - 1.50     6.00
>                     $28.00

*[The sheriff's return is faint in places; the second neighbor's name reads "W. Cauthen."]*

**Img. 3 - Bill of costs and receipt (separate sheet)**

> Exrs of F. Joyner
>    v } Attys Cost - $12.
> George Sims } Clks - 10.
>               Shff - 6.96
>                      $28.96
>
> 1.50
> 8.00
>  .50
> $9.00 [?]
>
> Attys Bill
> Appearing & Defending - $4.00
> 8 Sub Writs - 8.00     12.00
>
> Clks Bill
> Decree on Sum Pros - 1.50
> Sub Writs for Pltff & Deft & signing of same } 8.00
> Judgt & Exn - .50     10.00     $22.00
>
> Recd from Mr. George Sims his Note for Twenty eight Dollars & 96 Cents in full of the attys, clerks & Sheriffs cost in the above case 22nd Jany 1829
>     Jno. McKenzie
>     C.C.P.