# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 3150

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Byrum J. Blackmon v. Elisha Blackmon (confession of judgment as collateral security) |
| **Dates** | 1843-1849 |
| **Roll** | Roll 3150 |
| **Pages in source images** | 11 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 3150. 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 [3150](3150/), 11 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:**

- Most sheets were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading.
- No box number appears on the papers photographed.
- The plaintiff's given name is written "Byrum" (abbreviated "B. J."); the surname is "Blackmon" and "Blackman" in different places.
- Img. 11 is the original sealed note; the copy on Img. 2 repeats it. Both are transcribed because the original is the clearer of the two in places.

## Transcription

**Img. 11 - The original sealed note, with the account it secures**

> Elisha Blackman Dr
>     To Byrum J. Blackman
>
> 1844 Nov 25 - To Note to Uriah Blackman on which B. J. Blackman is security - $166.65
> 1845 Jany 1 - To Note to Eliza Jane Blackman with B. J. Blackman as security - $310.00
> 1844 Decr 5 - To Note to Josiah Blackman with B. J. Blackman as security for - $56.19
> 1844 Decr 30 - To Note to S. B. Emmons & Co with B. J. Blackman as security for - $17.06
>     S. B. Emmons same day B. J. Blackman security - $87.52
>     Wm. McKenna same day do - $52.00
> 1843 Nov 22 - To Note to Anna A. Blackman with B. J. Blackman as security due 1st Jany 1845 - $146.52
> 1844 Decr 26 - To Note to James H. Witherspoon with B. J. Blackman security - $38.24
>     To Note to Jno. Williams for B. J. Blackman - $20.00
>     To Note to James A. Blackman paid by B. J. Blackman 13th Jany 1845 - $14.57
>     To Note to A. Taylor Adm[r] of Pate [?] with B. J. Blackman as security - $61.00
>          $959.38
>
> $959.38     One day after date I promise to pay Byrum J. Blackman or bearer Nine hundred and fifty nine Dollars & 38 cts with interest from 1st January 1845 to be paid annually & in consideration that the said B. J. Blackman is my security on the Notes &c to the persons above specified & has paid for me the Note to J. A. Blackman as above. Witness my hand & seal 15 January 1845
>
> Test                          Elisha Blackman (Seal)
> Wm. Moore

**Img. 10 - Back of the note**

> Elisha Blackman
>    to
> B. J. Blackman
> Note $959.38

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**Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration, with confession of judgment**

> [Right panel:]
> Roll 3150
> Lancaster
>
> Byrum J. Blackmon
>    v } Debt
> Elisha Blackmon
>
> Witherspoon & Moore
> Pltff Attys
>
> I admit the filing of this Declaration & confess judgment to the Plff in the sum of Nine hundred & fifty nine dollars and thirty eight cents with interest from the 1st day of January 1845 to be paid annually & that execution may issue for the same instanter [struck: on] & the Costs of suit instanter. January 15th 1845.
>     Elisha Blackmon
> Test
> Wm. Moore
>
> The within Confession is taken as Collateral Security.
>     B. J. Blackmon
>
> [Left panel:]
> Recorded in Book [illegible] page [illegible]
>     S. Beckham Clk
>
> Confession - $959.38
> Int. fr. 1 Jany 1845 Annually
>
> Atty - $11
> Clk - 4.25 [?]     $15.25 [?]
>          $974.63
>
> Jd. 16 Jany 1845
>     S. Beckham
>     Clk

**Img. 2 - Copy of the note (on the declaration)**

> Copy Note
>
> Elisha Blackmon Dr.
>     To Byrum J. Blackmon
>
> 1844 Nov 25 - To Note to Uriah Blackmon on which B. J. Blackmon is security - $166.65
> 1845 Jany 1 - To Note to Eliza Jane Blackmon with B. J. Blackmon as security for - $310.00
> 1844 Dec 5 - To Note to Josiah Blackmon with B. J. Blackmon as security for - $56.19
> 1844 Dec 30 - To Note to S. B. Emmons & Co with B. J. Blackmon as security for - $17.06
>     S. B. Emmons same day B. J. Blackmon security - $87.52
>     Wm. McKenna same day do - $52.00
> 1843 Nov 22 - To Note to Anna A. Blackmon with B. J. Blackmon security - due 1st January 1845 - $146.52
> 1844 Dec 26 - To Note to James H. Witherspoon with B. J. Blackmon security - $38.24
>     To Note to Jno. Williams for B. J. Blackmon - $20.00
>     To Note to James A. Blackmon paid by B. J. Blackmon 13th Jany 1845 - $14.57
>     To Note to A. Taylor Adm[r] of Pate [?] with B. J. Blackmon as security - $61.00
>          $959.38
>
> Copy Note
> $959.38. One day after date I promise to pay Byrum J. Blackmon or bearer Nine hundred and fifty nine Dollars & 38 cts with interest from 1 January 1845 to be paid annually for & in consideration that the said B. J. Blackmon is my security on the Notes &c to the persons above specified & has paid for me the Notes to J. A. Blackmon as above. Witness my hand & seal 15 January 1845.
>     (Signed) Elisha Blackmon (Seal)
> Test.
> Wm. Moore

*[The administrator's name in the last item reads "A. Taylor Adm[r] of Pate [?]"; the estate's name is uncertain.]*

**Img. 3 - Declaration (printed form: "Declaration on Sealed Note")**

> SOUTH-CAROLINA, } TO-WIT:
> ***Lancaster*** DISTRICT. }
>
> In the Common Pleas, [blank] Term, A. D. 184[blank]
>
> ***Elisha Blackmon*** the defendant attached to answer to ***Byrum J. Blackmon the plaintiff*** of a plea of Debt that ***he*** the said ***Elisha*** do render unto ***him*** the said ***Byrum J.*** the sum of ***nine hundred and fifty nine dollars and 38 cts.*** Dollars which to ***him he*** owes, and from ***him he*** unjustly detains and so forth, to the damage of the said ***Byrum J. two thousand*** Dollars and so forth.
>
> Whereupon, the said Plaintiff ***by Witherspoon & Moore his*** Attorneys complain that whereas, the said ***Elisha Blackmon*** on the ***fifteenth*** day of ***January*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty five*** at ***Lancaster*** to-wit, at ***Lancaster*** Court House, in the District and State aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, did make ***his*** certain writing obligatory, commonly called a Single Bill, or Sealed Note, sealed with ***his*** seal and delivered to the said ***Byrum J.*** did then and there deliver the same with ***his*** own proper hand writing thereunto subscribed, bearing date the day and year last aforesaid, by which said writing obligatory, the said ***Elisha*** did then and there and thereby promise to pay the ***said Byrum J. nine hundred and fifty nine Dollars and thirty eight cents one day after the date thereof with interest to be paid annually***
>
> By reason whereof, the said ***Elisha*** became liable to pay or render unto the said ***Byrum J.*** the said sum of money in the said note specified, according to the tenor and effect thereof:
>
> Yet the said ***Elisha*** not regarding ***his*** undertaking aforesaid, in form aforesaid made, the said sum of money to the said ***Byrum J.*** has never tendered, although frequently requested so to do, but the same to the said ***Byrum J.*** to render, the said ***Elisha*** has hitherto altogether refused and still doth refuse and neglect, to the damage said ***Byrum J. two thousand*** Dollars; and therefore the said ***Byrum J.*** brings suit and so forth.
>
> And the said ***Byrum J.*** produces here in Court, the writing obligatory aforesaid, which testifies the debt aforesaid, the date whereof is the same day and year aforesaid, in form aforesaid, and so forth.

**Img. 6 - Back of the declaration (acceptance of service)**

> Lancaster
> Byrum J. Blackmon
>    v } Decl. Debt
> Elisha Blackmon
>
> Witherspoon & Moore
> Pltff Attys
>
> I accept the service of the writ & declaration 15 January 1845
>     Elisha Blackmon
> Test
> Wm. A. Moore [?]

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**Img. 7 - Writ (printed form: "Writ in Debt - Pegues 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 Elisha Blackmon*** the Defendant wheresoever found within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel the said Defendant 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 ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** of a Plea that the Defendant do render to the Plaintiff the sum of ***nine hundred and fifty nine Dollars and 38*** Cents, which to the said Plaintiff the said Defendant owes and from the said Plaintiff unjustly detains, to the damage of the said Plaintiff ***two thousand*** 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, ***S. Beckham*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***fifteenth*** day of ***January*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty ***five*** and in the sixty ***9th*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***Witherspoon & Moore*** Plaintiff's Attorney.
>
> [Left margin:] S. Beckham Clk

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**Img. 9 - Judgment by confession (printed form: "Judgment by confession in Case - Pegues print")**

> And the said ***Elisha Blackmon*** come***s*** and defend***s*** the force and injury, when and so forth, and say***s*** that ***he*** cannot deny the action of the said ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** nor but that ***he*** the said ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** ha***th*** sustained damages by reason of the ***detention of the said debt*** [struck: non-performance of the promise and assumption aforesaid], to ***the amount of nine hundred and fifty nine Dollars & 38 cts. besides interest on the same from the first day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & forty five to be paid annually*** as ***he*** the said ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** above, by declaring, suppose***s*** and upon this the said ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** pray***s*** judgment and those damages so acknowledged, together with ***his*** costs and charges by ***him*** about ***his*** suit in this behalf sustained, to be adjudged to ***him*** and so forth.
>
> THEREFORE, it is considered that the said ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** do recover against the said ***Elisha Blackmon the debt and*** damages aforesaid to ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** above acknowledged, and also ***fifteen dollars 25 [cents]*** for ***his*** costs and charges aforesaid, with ***his*** assent by the said Court now herewith adjudged, which said damages in the whole amount to ***Nine hundred & seventy four 63/100 Dollars*** and the said ***Elisha Blackmon*** be in mercy, and so forth.
>
> [Top margin:] Judg. Entd. up & Signed 15 [?] Jan 1845
>     S. Beckham Clk

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**Img. 4 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "Fi. Fa. in Debt - Principal and Interest, Cost assessed as Damages - Printed by T. W. Pegues")**

> 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 ***Elisha Blackmon the defendant*** you cause to be levied, as well a certain debt of ***Nine hundred & fifty nine dollars & thirty eight cents*** as also the interest on the ***same to be paid annually*** from the ***first*** day of ***January*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty five*** until satisfaction shall be made of this Execution; and also, ***fifteen 25 [cents]*** dollars and cents, which ***Byrum J. Blackmon*** in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster*** Court House, lately recovered against the said ***Elisha Blackmon*** for damages which ***he*** sustained as well by reason of the detention of the debt aforesaid, as for ***his*** costs and charges, by ***him*** expended, in and about prosecuting ***his*** suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***Elisha Blackmon is*** convicted, as appears on record. And that you have this Writ, and 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 ***Byrum J. Blackmon for his*** debt and damages aforesaid.
>
> WITNESS, ***S. Beckham*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District of ***Lancaster*** at ***Lancaster*** Court House, the ***sixteenth*** day of ***January*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty five*** and in the ***69th*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***Witherspoon & Moore*** Pltffs Atty
>
> [Left margin:] S. Beckham Clk

**Img. 5 - Back of the fi. fa. (levy on land, purchase and sales)**

> [Left panel:]
> Entd. 16 Jany 1845
>     H. Hancock
>     Shff
>
> I have levd. this Execution on 300 acres Land more or less whereon Deft lives adjoining the Land of Ben. Blackmon & others as Defendants property -
> 27 Jany 1845
>     Wm. [struck: H.] Hancock [?]
>     Shff
>
> Bid off by B. J. Blackmon subject to mortgage at $12 - Nov 3 1845
> Titles made 27 Dec 1845
>
> Entd. 8 March 1845
>     J. Adams
>     Shff
>
> [Center panel:]
> Roll 3150
> 108
> Lancaster
>
> Byrum J. Blackmon
>    v } Fi. Fa. in Debt
> Elisha Blackmon
>
> Witherspoon & Moore
> Pltff Atty
>
> Confession - $959.38
> Int. fr. 1 Jany 1845 to be paid annually
>
> Atty - $11
> Clk - 4.25
> Shff - $3.50
> Do Adams - 0.75 [?]
> Shff James Adams - .75
>
> Recd payt. [?] [illegible] 3 Nov 1845
>     B. J. Blackmon
>
> [Right panel:]
> Horses Cattle &c. levd. on 27 Feb 1845
>     J. Adams
>     Shff
>
> Sold 4 Nov 1845 for $38.37 & applied to this case
>     J. Adams
>     Shff
>
> Nulla Bona
> 28 March 1846
>     J. Adams
>     Shff
>
> Entd. 10 Mar 1849
>     James Adams
>     S.L.D.
>
> [Figures at the foot:] 11 / 1.35 / 4.25 / 16.60 / 38.37 / 21.77

*[The receipt in the center panel is faint.]*

**Img. 8 - Back of the judgment**

> Lancaster
> Byrum J. Blackmon
>    v } Judgment by Confession
> Elisha Blackmon
>
> Witherspoon & Moore
> Pltff Attys
>
> Confn. - $959.38
> with int. to be paid annually from 1 Jany 1845