# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 1610 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | James F. Lee v. Elisha Blackmon, John J. Blackmon & Thomas M. Goore | | **Dates** | 1831-1832 | | **Roll** | Box 30, Roll 1610 | | **Pages in source images** | 5 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 1610 (Box 30). 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 1610 - Lee vs Blackmon et al.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%201610%20-%20Lee%20vs%20Blackmon%20et%20al.pdf), 5 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** > Roll 13 21 28 > Lancaster > James F. Lee > B30 R 1610 > vs } Decl[aration] in > Elisha Blackmon } ass[aul]t & batt[ery] > and others } & false imp[risonment] > > Blanding & Howard Pff attys > > Filed 24 March 1832 > Rule posted same day > > Nonsuit > > [pencil:] > Plea - .50 > 5 S[ub] writs - 2.50 > $3.00 > > [At the foot:] Williams & Foster --- **PDF p. 2 - Declaration** > The State of South Carolina } In the Common Pleas > Lancaster District } To wit > Thomas M. Goore, John J. Blackmon and Elisha Blackmon were attached to answer to James F. Lee of a plea wherefore with force and arms they did beat wound and imprison the said James F. without any probable cause and against [struck: the] the laws and customs of the said State. And whereupon the said James F. by Blanding and Howard his attorneys complains that the said Thomas M., John J. and Elisha on the [blank] day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty one with force and arms to wit with a rope upon him the said James F. in Lancaster district to wit at Lancaster Court House in the district and state aforesaid did make an assault and did then and there beat, wound and imprison and evil treat the said James F. and him the said James F. without any just and reasonable cause and against the laws and customs of this State for a long time to wit for the space of one day kept and detained and other wrongs and enormities to him then and there did against the peace and dignity of the said State and to the damage of the said James F. five thousand dollars and therefore he brings suit and so forth. > Blanding & Howard > Pltff attys --- **PDF p. 3 - Plaintiff's notes of the evidence** > John J. Blackmon > Elisha Blackmon > Thos M. Goore > > Came to Glass G. Caston's house at a late hour of the night in Feby last. Elisha Blackmon arrested J. F. Lee. John J. Blackmon gave a rope to Elisha at his and Thomas Goore['s] request and they put the rope upon the Pltf. [Pltf] resided in the neighbourhood about a week. Never saw Goore & J. J. Blackmon but once before. They first challenged Pltf as Cusac [? / Cusas] and the charge was denied and they were requested to look at Pltf and see if he answered the discription of Cusac. --- **PDF p. 4 - Original writ (attachment), 1831 (printed form: "Original Writ" - Camden Press)** > 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 bodies of Thomas M. Goore, John J. Blackmon and Elisha Blackmon*** wheresoever ***they*** may be found within your and each of your respective districts, so that you compel ***them*** 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 ***third*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** next, to answer to ***James F. Lee of a plea wherefore with force and arms they did beat wound and imprison the said James F. without any*** [struck: of a Plea of trespass on the case and so forth; also for certain promises and assumptions by the said ... to the said ... made and not performed; to the damage of the said] ***reasonable cause and against the laws and customs of the said State and for a long time did detain the said James F. in prison against the peace and dignity of the said State and to the damage of the said James F. five thousand dollars***. > AND have your there this WRIT, before the Clerk of the said Court, fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court. > WITNESS ***John Adams*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***thirtieth*** day of ***May*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***thirty one*** and in the ***fifty fifth*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > ***Blanding & Howard*** Plaintiff's Attorney > [Left margin:] Jn Adams Clerk **PDF p. 5 - Back of the writ** > [Left panel:] > Ent[ere]d in my office 2 June 1831 > Wm Williams Sh[ff] > > I have personally served the defendant E. Blackmon with a copy of this writ 1 June 1831. > P.S. [personally served] J. J. Blackmon 1 June 1831 > > I have by C. F. Howard my lawful deputy personally served Thos Goore with a copy of this writ 19 July 1831 > 30 miles Wm Williams Sh[ff] > > [Center panel:] > 112 > Lancaster > James F. Lee > vs } Writ > Elisha Blackmon } fal[se] > et al. } Imp[risonment] > $5000 > Blanding & Howard > Pff attys