# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 2660

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Elisha Blackmon (Blackman) v. Orin D. Carstarphen Senior (assumpsit on two notes given for the purchase of a slave named Alfred) |
| **Dates** | 1837-1842 |
| **Roll** | Roll 2660 |
| **Pages in source images** | 151 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 2660. 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 [2660](2660/), 151 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:**

- The roll holds two parallel suits by Elisha Blackmon against Orin D. Carstarphen Senior, one on each of two $600 notes dated 2 January 1837 (one due 1 January 1838, the other due 1 January 1839). Each has its own docket cover and declaration (Imgs. 1-2 and 46-47). Some subpoenas are marked "2d Case." The single execution (Img. 49) and its costs (Img. 48) were filed under Roll 2660.
- The surname is written both "Blackmon" and "Blackman," and the defendant's name "Carstarphen," "Carstaphen," "Carstafeny" and "Cardorphen," often within the same paper.
- Many sheets were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading. Several pages are torn along the folds.
- Imgs. 66-97 are the papers of a commission to examine witnesses in Wilcox County, Alabama, where the defendant's family had taken Alfred. They include the printed commission, interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, and answers. Many of these sheets are faded and cross-written. Only the commission certificate and the answers of B. H. Saunders and Massey Ferrell, which are legible, are transcribed in full. The rest are described.
- Imgs. 3-45, 50-63 and 98-151 are subpoena writs (printed and handwritten, with sheriff's returns), bail writs with the plaintiff's bail affidavits pinned to them, and subpoena tickets for the 1839-1841 terms. They were read from overview photographs and are summarized below rather than transcribed one by one. The full list of the witnesses paid in the case is transcribed from the costs on Img. 48.
- Img. 65 is an unrelated letter to the clerk, kept in the roll because its blank margin was used for figuring.

## Transcription

**Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration (first case, note due 1 January 1838), with verdicts**

> [Left panel:]
> Recorded in Book L page 409
>
> We find for the plaintiff
> Four hundred & fifty Dollars
> with Int from 2 Jany 1837 -
>     Glass Caston
>     Foreman
>
> [struck: We find for the Deft without Cost & [?] Pltff]
>
> We find for the plaintiff
> Six hundred and sixty
> nine Dollars
> 16 2/3/100 with interest
> from this date
> 5 Nov 1841
>     J Perry
>     Foreman
>
> [Right panel:]
> Roll 2660
> Lancaster
>
> Elisha Blackmon
>    vs } [Decl in Assumpsit?] *[torn]*
> Orin D Carstarphen Senr
>       $1200.00
>
> Clintons pltffs attys
>
> Filed 9 March 1839
> Rule posted same day
>     S Beckham
>     Clk
>
> [struck: We find for the plaintiff Nine hundred Dollars
>     Glass Caston
>     Foreman]
>
> [At the foot, torn:] ... [illegible] & under it to ... to consideration quoto [?] ... Wright

*[The struck verdict for nine hundred dollars is also written on the docket of the second case (Img. 46), where it is not struck.]*

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**Img. 2 - Declaration (first case)**

> State of South Carolina } In the Com. pleas, Viz.
> Lancaster District }
>
> Orin D Carstarphen Senr was attached to answer to Elisha Blackman of a plea of trespass on the case and so forth. Also for certain promises and assumptions by the said Orin D Carstarphen Sen to the said Elisha Blackman made and not performed to the damage of the said Elisha Blackman twelve hundred dollars: Whereupon the said Elisha by Clintons his attorneys comes [complains] for that the said Orin D Carstarphen Senr on the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty seven at Lancaster Court House in the State & District aforesaid & within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, made his certain note in writing called a promissory note of that date, by which said note the said Orin D Carstarphen Senr on or before the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty eight, promised to pay the said Elisha Blackman or bearer six hundred Dollars for value recd with interest from the date [struck: thereof] of the said note as aforesaid, by reason whereof the said Orin D. became liable to pay the said sum of money in the said note mentioned according to the tenor & effect thereof, and being so liable in consideration thereof thereafterwards Viz, on the day & year & at the place last aforesaid promised that he would well and truly pay to the said Elisha the said sum of money when he should be thereunto afterwards requested. Yet although often requested the said Orin D. the said sum of money hath not paid to the said Elisha, but hath wholly neglected & refused to do so, & still continues to do so to the damage of the said Elisha twelve hundred dollars & therefore he brings suit &c.
>     Clintons plffs attys
>
> (Copy note)
> $600. On or before the 1st of Jany 1838 we or either of us promise to pay Elisha Blackmon or bearer six hundred Dollars for value recd with interest from the date this 2d of Jany 1837.
> Glass G. Caston
>     Orin D Carstarphen Junr
>     Orin D Carstarphen Senr
>     Hiram Twitty [?]

*[Glass G. Caston appears to be the witness to the note. The third signer is written "Horam Twilly" here and "Hiram Twitty [?]" on Img. 47.]*

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**Img. 46 - Docket cover of the declaration (second case, note due 1 January 1839), with verdicts**

> [Left panel, torn at top:]
> We find for th[e plaintiff]
> Four hundred and f[ifty dollars]
> with Int from 2 Jan[y 1837?]
>     Glass Caston
>     Foreman
>
> We find for the Deft
> without Costs. Nov. 5 1841.
>     J. Perry
>     Foreman
>
> [Right panel:]
> [2?]3
> Lan[cast]er *[torn]*
>
> Elisha Blackmon
>    vs } Decl [in Assumpsit?]
> Orin D. Carstarphen
> Senior
>
> Clintons
>
> Filed 5 Octr 1839
> Rule posted same day
>     S Beckham
>     Clk
>
> We find for the plaintiff
> nine hundred Dollars
>     Glass Caston
>     Foreman

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**Img. 47 - Declaration (second case)**

> State of South Carolina }
> Lancaster District }
>
> *[The declaration is in the same form as Img. 2, by Clintons for Elisha Blackman against Orin D Carstarphen Senr, on a note made 2 January 1837 and payable on or before 1 January 1839. Much of the page is torn and stained and the text was not read in full.]*
>     Clintons plffs attys
>
> (Copy note)
> $600. On or before the 1st of Jany 1839, we or either of us promise to pay Elisha Blackmon or bearer six hundred Dollars for value recd with interest from the date this 2d of Jany 1837.
> Glass G. Caston
>     Orin D. Carstarphen Junr
>     Orin D. Carstarphen Senr
>     Hiram Twitty [?]

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**Img. 64 - Elisha Blackman's receipt for the price of Alfred (evidence)**

> State of South Carrolina }
> Lancaster District }
> Jany the 2d 1837 Recd of Orin D. Carstafeny Junr Twelve hundred Dollars in full consideration for one Negro man Alfred aged 25. which negro I warrant to bee helthy & sound in body & mind & the right & title to [be] good & I bind myself my [struck: heirs] Executors administrators and assigns [struck: for] to warrant the same this day & date above written
>     Elisha Blackman

*["helthy" and "sound" are underlined on the original.]*

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**Imgs. 14 and 17 - Plaintiff's bail affidavits (slips pinned to the bail writs)**

> [Img. 14:]
> South Carolina }
> Lancaster District }
> On oath before me Elisha Blackman says that Orin D Carstarphen Senr is justly indebted to him by note due the 1st Jany 1838 besides interest six hundred dollars, which said sum of money the said Orin D Carstarphen refuses to pay this deponent or any part of the same due & owing as aforesaid.
>     Elisha Blackmon
> administered by me
> Jany 8. 1839.
> J. Clinton
> Q.U.
>
> [Img. 17:]
> South Carolina }
> Lancaster District }
> [On] oath before me deponent says that Orin D Carstarphen Senr is indebted to him in the sum of six hundred dollars besides interest by note past due [?] & that the sd Orin D. Carstarphen refuses to pay the said sum of money due as aforesaid.
>     Elisha Blackmon
> administered [before] me
> Jany 8. 183[9]
> J. Clinton
> Q.U.

*["Q.U." = Quorum Unus, a justice of the quorum.]*

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**Imgs. 66-97 - Commission to examine witnesses in Wilcox County, Alabama**

**Img. 92 - Commission (printed form: "Commission to Examine Witnesses" - Charlotte Press)**

> STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA.
> IN THE COURT OF ***Com Pleas***
> TO ***[Calvin C. Sellers?], John [P.] Fairly, [J. B. Bethea?], Benj[amin] Blakeney*** GREETING:
> WHEREAS, a certain cause is now depending in the Court of ***Common Pleas*** of the said State, wherein ***Elisha Blackmon is Pltff & O D Carstarphen Deft*** ... persons resident in ***Wilcox County Ala[bama]*** should be examined, as witnesses ...
> WITNESS ***S. Beckham Esq Clk*** at ***Lancaster CH*** the ***31st*** day of ***[July?]*** ... ***1839*** ... ***sixty fourth*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>     ***Wright Deft Atty***
>
> [Commissioner's oath:] Sworn ... September 1839 ...
>     ***J. P. Fairly***
>     ***Ben Blakeney***
>
> [Instructions:] ... direct the same to ***Simon Beckham*** Esquire, ***Clerk of Lancaster*** District ...

*[The form was photographed sideways, and most of the handwritten fill-ins are uncertain.]*

**Img. 66 - Back of the commission papers**

> Lancaster
>
> Elisha Blackmon
>    vs } Com[mission]
> Orin D Carstarphen
>
> Clintons
> pltffs attys
>
> Benj. Blakeney Commr
> for Pltff

**Img. 67 - Defendant's interrogatories (end of one set, and the set for Massey Ferrell)**

> Int 4 - [Is he?] or not rendered less serviceable by his repeated sickness and is his complaint constitutional?
> Int 5 - State all you know that will benefit the deft & which will go to show the negro is subject to sickly fits which renders him less valuable & state how much the sickness affects his value -
>     Wright Deft Atty
>
> Interogatories for Massey Ferrell -
> Int 1 Are you acquainted with the parties to this suit?
> Int 2. Do you or not know the negro boy named Alfred, purchased by O D Carstaphen from Elisha Blackman?
> Int 3. Did you or not know the negro in this Country when he was first purchased from Blackman and have you or not any recollection of the negro being sick shortly afterwards? - if so state all you recollect about it?
> Int 4. Have you seen the same negro since you went to Alabama? if so, in whose possession is he and what is his situation? - is he sickly or not? Do you or not know whether he has been attended on by Dr. Martin Reed?
> Int 5 - If you know any thing else that would benefit defendant state the same.
>     Wright
>     Deft Atty

**Imgs. 68-77, 79-83, 87-91, 93-97 - Further interrogatories, cross-interrogatories and answers**

*[These sheets are cross-written, faded and in places torn. They contain the plaintiff's (Clintons') and the defendant's (Wright's) interrogatories and cross-interrogatories, and the answers of the Alabama witnesses, about Alfred's health, his work, the doctors who treated him, and how he was fed and kept on the Carstarphen place. They were not read line by line.]*

**Img. 84 - Answers of B. H. Saunders (end of the direct answers, and the start of the answers to cross-interrogatories)**

> 7th Witness answers - That in the month of April last he had a conversation with Blackman the plaintiff about the negro. That Mr. Blackman asked him how the negro Alfred came on & if he was sick much to which he replied that the negro was sick a great part of his time - Mr. Blackman then said that the negro was healthy when he sold him & that Mr. Carstarphen had offered him three hundred dollars to take the negro back, some time in the summer of 1838, but that he was not in a situation at that time to accept of the offer.
> 8th Witness answers - that the negro has been verry expensive to Mr. Carstarphen on account of Doctors Bills, Medicine, attention &c.
>     B H Saunders
> Sworn to & subscribed
> before us this 7th
> Sept 1839
>     J. P. Fairly
>     Ben Blakeney
>
> Answer to Cross Interrogatories -
> To the First Cross Interrogatories Witness answers that he is not, nor never has been in copartnership with either of the Carstarphens in farming or in the purchase of negroes -
> 2d Witness answers - that shortly after he first knew him he was taken sick - he thinks about the first of June 1837 -
> 3d Witness answers that while Alfred was under his care, he never tasked him, that he generally put him to ploughing or some other light labour. He was in all about one year in his charge

**Img. 85 - Answers of B. H. Saunders to cross-interrogatories (continued)**

> 4th Witness answers that he was not so parti[cular] as to keep an account of the number of days that Alfred lost on account of sickness, but that he supposes that he lost about one third of his time by sickness during the time that he had charge of him - He does not recollect that the Doctor was called but once but that Alfred was sent frequently to the Doctor and was taking medicine constantly under the directions of the Doctor
> 5th Witness answers that he had charge of the negro during part of the year 1837 and also a part of the present year - Mr. Carstarph[en] Jr attends to his own farm at present and has attended to it during the balance of the time that he has been absent from there -
> 6th Witness answers that he was there but was not subpoenaed -
> 7th Witness answers - Yea
> 8th Witness answers - Yea
> 9th Witness answers that he never knew Alfred to have a fight - that he did tell the plaintiff that the negro was some time unwell and at other times apparently well
> 10th Witness answers - that the negroes were never put upon allowance while he had charge of them, that they all eat together and fared alike
> 11th Witness answers - No - neither of them [struck: is] present
>     B H Saunders
> Sworn to & subscribed
> before us this 7th
> Sept. 1839
>     J. P. Fairly
>     Ben Blakeney

**Img. 86 - Commissioners' certificate**

> The State of Alabama }
> Wilcox County }
> We John P. Fairly and Benjamin Blakeney two of the commissioners appointed to take the testimony of Benjamin H. Sanders, on the interrogatories and cross interrogatories hereunto appended certify that after taking down the answers of the witness to the interrogatories, we have read them over distinctly to the witness who having been previously sworn subscribed his name to the answers to the interrogatories and also to answers to the cross interrogatories.
> Given under our hands and seals this 7th September A.D. 1839.
>     J. P. Fairly (Seal)
>     Ben Blakeney (Seal)

**Img. 78 - Answers of Massey Ferrell to cross-interrogatories**

> Answers of Massey Ferrell to Cross Interrogatories
> To the 1st Int. Witness answers - He has been living with the defendant in South Carolina about three years - He is not living with, nor in the employment of deft at this time -
> To 2d Int Witness answers that he quit South Carolina on the 14th of Sept 1838 - that he had no particular reason for quitting th[e] State, nor did he run away, but i[ntends?] returning at some future day -
> To Int. 3d Witness Answers - I know [nothing?] of what transpired on defts plan[tation] in Alabama - until some time [in?] 1838 - I found one negro man o[n the] plantation besides Alfred - I [?] know of no sickness among them [except?] Alfred - the other man I alluded [to?] came from S. Carolina -
> To Int 4th Witness Answers - I do no[t recollect?] to have seen Alfred at any kind of [work?] since I came to Alabama except driving the Waggon & perhaps some few times at work with an axe.
> To the 5th Int, Witness Answers - I never knew Alfred before the deft purchased him - Nor do I know any of his brothers & sisters except one sister by the name of Hanah now owned by deft which girl he purchased before he got Alfred
> To 6th Int. Witness answers that he never saw Dr. Reed visit the negro -
>     Massey Ferrell

*[The right edge of this sheet is torn away. The words in brackets are supplied from the sense.]*

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**Imgs. 3-45, 50-63, 98-151 - Writs, subpoenas and subpoena tickets (summary)**

| Imgs. | Document | Details read |
|---|---|---|
| 3-13, 15-16, 18-19 | Printed bail writs and subpoena writs, with sheriff's returns | Elisha Blackmon v. O. D. Carstarphen Senr, 1839, Clintons pltffs attys; bail affidavits of 8 Jany 1839 pinned on (Imgs. 14, 17). Returns by the sheriff (Secrest). |
| 20-31, 33-45 | Printed subpoena writs (some photographed upside down) and their backs | Witnesses for the plaintiff, 1839-1841 terms; S. Beckham Clk; Clintons pltffs attys |
| 32 | Handwritten subpoena | To Thos. Small Senr, Hardy Hale & James Baskins, to appear at the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster Court House on the [1st] Monday after the 4th Monday in Octr instant, in the cause between E. Blackman Pltff and O. D. Carstarphen Defendant, on the part & behalf of Pltff. Witness S. Beckham, 28 Octr 1839, 64th year. S. Beckham Clk; Clintons Pltffs attys |
| 50-58, 60-63 | Printed subpoena writs and backs | E. Blackmon v. O. D. Carstarphen, July and November terms 1840-1841; some marked "2d Case"; returns signed H. Hancock Shff |
| 59 | Handwritten subpoena | To Wm. W. Ellis, Glass G. Caston, John J. Blackmon, to appear at Lancaster Court House on the 4th of November next to testify in the cause between E. Blackmon Plaintiff & O. D. Carstarphen Senr Defendant, on the part of Plaintiff. Witness S. Beckham, 28 Octr 1839, 64th year. S. Beckham Clk; Clintons Pltffs attys |
| 98-104, 107-125, 127-151 | Subpoena tickets and writs | Plaintiff's witnesses, 1839-1842, including Hardy Hale, Wm. W. Ellis, Glass G. Caston, Thomas Small Senr, Betsy Small, John J. Blackman, Wiley Lyles, Levi Wright, Nancy and John Seegars [Stegner?], Jas Reeves, Dr R. E. Wylie, Dr J. Hennegan [?], Elijah Laney, Owen Sims, Byrum J. Blackman, Britain Blackmon, Uriah Blackmon, Jefferson Blackmon, D. Perry [?] |
| 105-106, 126 | Affidavits on lost subpoena tickets | See Img. 105 below. Similar affidavits dated 19 Nov 1841 and one by John J. Blackman. |

**Img. 105 - Affidavit of Thomas Small on a lost subpoena ticket**

> South Carolina }
> Lancaster District }
> On oath before me Thomas Small Senr says he attended four days on a subpoena ticket at the October Term 1839 of the Court of Common Pleas for Lancaster District in the case of Elisha Blackman vs O. D. Carstarphen, which ticket he has lost or misplaced so that he can't find it - That he was subpoenaed on the part of Elisha Blackman.
>     Thomas Small
> administered by me
> Nov. 12. 1841
> J. Clinton
> Magt

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**Img. 49 - Execution (printed form: "Fi. Fa. in Case")**

> 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, that of the Goods and Chattels, Houses, Lands and other Hereditaments and Real Estates of ***Orin D Carstarphen Senr*** you cause to be levied, the sum of ***Six hundred & sixty nine dollars 16 2/3/100*** and also the interest on the sum of ***aforesaid*** from the ***fifth*** day of ***November*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty one*** until satisfaction shall be made of this execution, which ***Elisha Blackmon*** in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster court house*** lately recovered against the said ***Orin D. for damages sustained by the said Elisha by reason of the non performance of certain promises & assumptions by the said Orin D. to the said Elisha made, also Two hundred and [struck: fifty] Seventy Six Dollars [struck: illegible] 87 1/2*** for Costs and Charges by ***him*** expended in and about prosecuting ***his*** suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***Orin D.*** is convicted as appears on record. And that you have the said Monies "according to Law," before the Judges at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at ***Lancaster court House*** to render to the said ***Elisha for his Costs*** [struck: Debt] and Damages aforesaid.
> WITNESS, ***S. Beckham*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District, of ***Lancaster*** at ***Lancaster C.H.*** the ***twelfth*** day of ***November*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty one*** and in the ***Sixty sixth*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>     ***Clintons pltffs attys***
>
> [Left margin:]
> S Beckham
> Clk
>
> Entry & return .50
> Levys 3.00
> Adv 1.00
> Comm 13.47
> Interest 23.22
>     40.19
> Mileage 1.10
>     41.29
> Levied on 3 negroes
> 22 Jany 1842 -
> Orig H Hancock
>     Shff

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**Img. 48 - Back of the execution, with levies, receipts and costs**

> [Panel 1:]
> Entd 19 Nov 1841
>     H Hancock
>     Shff
>
> I have by A Mayer
> levied on seven negroes
> namely Nancey, Jack,
> Manna [?], Amanda,
> Jane, Susan & June [?]
> all as Defts
> property - 20 Nov
> 1841 - H Hancock
> Orig     Shff
>
> I have by Burrel [?] R
> Hancock levied on six
> negroes to wit Sally,
> Martha, John & three
> Girls, named Mary [?] -
> 25 Nov 1841.
> 16 m[iles]  H Hancock
>     Shff
>
> Recd 4 Decr 1841 in
> part Eight Hundred
> & fifty Dolls.
>     J. Adams
>
> [Panel 2:]
> 131    Roll 2660
> Lancaster
>
> Elisha Blackman
>    vs } Fi Fa
> Orin D. Carstarphen
>
> Satisfied 7 Feb 1842
>
> Clintons
>
> Verd $669.16 2/3 [?]
> Int fr 5 Nov 1841
>
> Attys $69
>   deduct 1 Interog 8   $61
> Clk 25.12 1/2
>   deduct 1 Com .75   24.37 1/2
> Shff Secrest 23.65   23.65
> Do Hancock 12.85   12.85
> Witnesses 155   155
>     $276.87 1/2
>
> The Sheriff is directed
> to proceed immediately &
> levy on negroes for sale
> day in Decemr
> 19 Nov 1841
>     Clintons
>
> [Panel 3:]
> Atty - W & D 8
> Bail 1
> 3 args below 15
> 2 Interog 16
> Argt appeal 5
> 20 Sub 20
> J & Ex 3
> Levy 1
>     $69
> deduct for 1 Interog 8
>     $61
> Clk
> W & D .87 1/2
> Post'd Rule .25
> appear & Bail 1.00
> Docket & Sum .75
> attend 3 trials 1.50
> E Mar .25
> 2 Comm 1.50
> 20 S writs 10.-
> 12 Do Deft 6.-
> J & E 1.25
> Recording 1.50
> Satisfaction .25
>     $25.12 1/2
> deduct 1 Comm .75
>     $24.37 1/2
> Shff Secrest
> On Writ $4.50
> On S writs 19.15   $23.65
> Shff Hancock
> On S writs 12.85
>     $130.62 1/2
>
> I hereby appoint A.
> Mayer to levy this Exon
> 19 Novr 1841
>     H Hancock
>
> [Panel 4:]
> Witt
> Owen Sims pd $9
> G. G. Caston pd 10
> Wiley Lyles pd 11
> W. W. Lyles pd 14
> Thos Small pd 13
> W W Ellis pd 13
> Dudley Hail pd 13
> Hardy Hail pd 13
> Patty [Betty?] Small pd 9
> R E Wylie 7
> James Reeves 4 pd
> J J Blackmon 8 pd
> Elijah Laney 2
> John Stegner [Seegars?] 4
> Jas Baskin 5 pd
> Nancy Stegner [Seegars?] 4 pd
> Lev[i] Right [Wright] 3 pd
> Byram Blackm[on] 1 pd
> Britton Blackm[on] 1 pd
> Patsy Wright 2
> Alexr Wright 1 pd
> Wm Howell 1 pd
> Jas Chews [?] 1 pd
> Uriah Blackm[on] 3 pd
> Jeff Blackm[on] 3 pd
>     155
>     130.62 1/2
>     $285.12 1/2
>
> [Across the foot:]
> Recd 7 Feb 1842 One Hundred & twelve Dollars 92 cents in full
>     J. Adams

*[The witnesses' fees add up to $155, as written. The total of costs on Panel 2 is $276.87 1/2, the figure in the execution.]*

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**Img. 65 - Letter to the clerk (unrelated; margin used for figuring)**

> Pleasant Valley SC 24th Nov 1841
> S. Beckham
>     Dear Sir
>     Mr. [Ipe?] Harris
> wants you to send him a warrant for his land he wants a warrant for four hundred & fifty acres please to send it by first mail
>     Yours
>     Respectfully
>     G. D. Beckham
>
> [Left margin, figures:] 21.22 / 4 / 17.22 / ... / $18.32 / ... / $12.05