# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 279 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | Nathaniel Clark v. David Laney & Daniel Clark | | **Dates** | 1812-1815 | | **Roll** | Roll 279 | | **Pages in source images** | 8 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 279. 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 [279](279/), 8 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. 1, 2, 4, 7 and 8 were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading. - The box number on the docket cover (Img. 1) is written over and could not be read. - Img. 3 is the blank back of the judgment sheet; only a faint docket ("Lancaster / Judgt. / [Nathaniel] Clark v. David Laney & Daniel Clark") shows, and the judgment text from the other side shows through. ## Transcription **Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration (with bill of costs)** > Roll [?] 50 [?] > B[illegible] R 279 > Lancaster > > Nathaniel Clark > v } Declon in Case $200 > David Laney & > Daniel Clark > > Hooker & Williams > > Filed Feby 10th 1815 > Rule posted the same day > Ordered for Judgement March 29th 1815 > > I assess the debt [?] & interest due the Pltff at [struck: illegible] ninety three Dollars - > Jno. Simpson Clk > April 11 1815 > > Attys Costs > Writ & Copy - L1.1.6 > Declon - 1.5.6 > Ord. Judt. - 5.0 > Rule - 15.0 [?] > Exn do - 1.0 > Clk - 6 > L3.13.6 = 15.73 > Clks do - 5.26 > Shffs do - 4.95 > $25.94 > Debt - 93.00 > 118.94 > > [Along the lower edge:] Execution issued April 29th 1815 --- **Img. 2 - Declaration, with copy of the note** > In the Common pleas > South Carolina } To wit > Lancaster District } > > David Laney and Daniel Clark were attached to answer to Nathaniel Clark in a plea of trespass on the case and so forth; And whereupon the said Nathaniel by Hooker & Williams his Attornies complains that whereas they the said David and Daniel on the twenty fourth day of January in the Year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and twelve, at Lancaster Court house, in the district and State aforesaid did make their certain note in writing commonly called a promissory, and did then and there deliver the said note to the said Nathaniel their proper names being there unto subscribed, bearing date the same day and Year aforesaid, by which said note, they the said David and Daniel faithfully promised the said Nathaniel to pay unto him [or order] the sum of Eighty dollars on the twenty fifth day of december 1812 (next ensuing the date of the said note) for value received: by reason whereof, and by force of the Statute in such case made and provided, and made of force in this State, they the said David and Daniel became liable to pay to the said Nathaniel or his order the said sum of money in the said note mentioned, according to the tenor and effect of the said note: And being so liable they the said David and Daniel [struck: afterwards towit], in consideration thereof, afterwards towit, on the same day and year aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, undertook and upon themselves did assume, and then and there faithfully promised the said Nathaniel the said sum of Eighty dollars to him to pay and content when they should be afterwards thereunto requested. > > Yet the said David and Daniel not regarding their said several promises and assumptions in manner and form aforesaid made, but contriving and fraudulently craftily and subtilly to deceive and defraud the said Nathaniel in this behalf, the said sum of Eighty Dollars or any part thereof to the said Nathaniel hath not paid, (although often thereunto requested afterwards towit on the same day and year aforesaid) but the same to pay to the said Nathaniel the said David and Daniel hath hitherto wholly refused, and still do continue to refuse to pay the same, to the damage of the said Nathaniel two hundred Dollars and therefore he brings suit and so forth > > Hooker & Williams Plffs Attys > > Copy Note > "We or either of us do promise to pay or cause to be paid to Nathaniel Clark or "order the sum of Eighty Dollars due the twentififth day of december 1812 January the 24 day 1812 > Test Jesse Clark (Signd) David (his X mark) Laney > Daniel Clark --- **Img. 5 - The original promissory note** > we or either of us do promise to pay or Cause to be paid to Nathaniel Clark or order the Sum of eighty Dollars due the twentififth day of December 1812. January the 24 day 1812 > Test Jesse Clark david (his X mark) laney > Daniel Clark **Img. 6 - Back of the note** > David Laney [&?] > &c > > Declon filed > [illegible] > > [illegible] Recd [?] --- **Img. 8 - Original writ (printed form: "Original Writ - Printed by F. M. Baxter")** > SOUTH-CAROLINA. > 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 body of David Laney and Daniel Clark*** 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 on the ***second*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** next, to answer to ***Nathaniel Clark in a plea of trespass on the case and so forth to his damage two hundred Dollars*** > > And have you this writ before the Clerk of the said Court, at ***Lancaster*** Court-House fifteen days next, before the sitting thereof. > > WITNESS the Honorable JOHN F. GRIMKE, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State, at ***Lancaster*** Court-House on the ***second*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fourteen*** and in the thirty ***Eighth*** year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America. > > ***Hooker & Williams*** Plaintiff's Attorney. > > [Left margin:] Jno. Simpson Clk --- **Img. 7 - Back of the original writ (endorsements)** > [Left panel:] > Entered in my Office > 12th Sept 1814 > Wm. [?] Hance [?] S.L.D. > > [Center panel:] > 438 [circled] > Lancaster > > Nathaniel Clarke > v } Writ in Case > David Laney & > Danl. Clark > > $200 > > Hooker & Williams > (original) > > P.S. the defendants > [struck: illegible] 22 [struck: Sep] 1814 > > Shff Cost $4 - 95 > > [Right panel, written vertically:] > I have by my lawful deputy served the defendants with Copys of this writ with the legal notice thereon endorsed 22d Sept 1814 > Wm. [?] Hance [?] S.L.D. --- **Img. 4 - Judgment** > Lancaster district } > Spring term 1815 } > > And now at this day towit the second monday after the fourth monday in March in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifteen at Lancaster Court house, before the Associate Judges of the Court of Common pleas, comes the said Elijah and prays that the said David and Daniel to the Declaration of him the said Elijah may answer, and the said David & Daniel although Solemnly called come not but make default, whereby the said Elijah remains thereof against them undefended. Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said Elijah ought to recover [damages] 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 refered to the Clerk of the said Court to Ascertain the sum actually due by the said David and Daniel by reason of the premises. Agreeably to an Act of the General Assembly of the said State in such case made and provided. And the said Clerk having Ascertained the same, Assess the damages of the said Elijah by reason of the premises, besides his costs and charges to Ninety three dollars. > > Therefore it is considered by the Court that the said Elijah do recover against the said David and Daniel his damages so assessed by reason of the premises, also the sum of twenty five dollars & 94 Cents [struck: illegible] for his Costs & Charges by him Expended in and prosecuting his suit in this behalf Which damages costs & Charges in the whole Amount to One hundred & One hundred & Eighteen Dollars 94 cents & be the said David & Daniel in mercy and so forth > > [Left margin, written vertically:] Judgment entered up & signed April 29 1815 > Jno. Simpson Clerk *[The judgment names the plaintiff "Elijah" throughout, although every other paper in this roll names him Nathaniel Clark. The clerk appears to have copied the wording from another case.]*