# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 320 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | James Clark v. George Gayden | | **Dates** | 1809-1813 | | **Roll** | Box 8, Roll 320 | | **Pages in source images** | 10 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 320 (Box 8). 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 [320](320/), 10 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, 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading. - One line of the declaration (Img. 2) is lost in a torn fold; the date of the bond is supplied from the copy of the note. - Img. 5 is the docket of the judgment (bill of costs); Img. 10 is the back of the original sealed note. ## Transcription **Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration** > [Left panel:] > Note - 218..10 > Int. f. 3 Jany 1809 [?] 49..60 > $267..70 > > Atto costs - 14..35 [?] > Clks do - 5..07 > Shff do - 2..25 > 21..67 > 289..37 > > [Right panel:] > Roll 35 > Lancaster > B8 R 320 > > James Clark > vs } Declon in Debt > George Gayden > > Abram Blanding > > Filed March 8th 1812 - > Rule posted the same day > [struck: Order] > > I assess the damages in this case to two hundred and sixty seven dollars and seventy cents besides the costs. > > Debt 218..10 > Dam. 49..60 > Costs 21..67 > 71..27 > > Judgt. ent. August 3d 1812 *[The clerk's damages figure ($267.70) is the debt plus interest; the judgment itself states damages of $49.60, costs of $21.67 and a total of $71.27 besides the debt.]* --- **Img. 2 - Declaration, with copy of the note** > South Carolina } > Lancaster District } to wit > > George Gayden was attached to answer to James Clark of a plea that he render unto him two hundred and eighteen dollars and ten cents which to him the said George owes and from him unjustly detains, to his damage one hundred dollars. whereupon the said James by Abram Blanding his attorney complains for that whereas the said [George on the third day of January in the year of our Lord] One thousand eight hundred and [nine at] Lancaster Court house in the District and state aforesaid made his certain writing obligatory commonly called a sealed note or single bill, sealed with the seal of the said George, by which said writing obligatory the said George aknowledged himself to be justly indebted to the said James in the sum of two hundred and eighteen dollars and ten cents to be paid unto the said James whenever he the said George should be thereunto afterwards required. > > Nevertheless the said George altho often thereunto afterwards required, the said sum of money or any part thereof hath not paid but the same to the said James hath refused and still doth wholly refuse to pay wherefore the said James saith he is injured and hath sustained damage to one hundred dollars therefore he brings suit and so forth, and produces here into court the writing obligatory aforesaid, which testifies the debt aforesaid, the date whereof is the day and year first written and so forth. > > Abram Blanding > P. Atto. > > Copy note. > I do owe and am justly indebted to James Clark in the sum of two hundred eighteen dollars and ten cents to be paid six months after date with interest from this date hereof, in witness whereof I hereunto put my hand and seal this 3d Jany. 1809 > Gideon Seymer - Witness George Gayden (L.S.) *[The words in square brackets in the second line of the complaint are lost in a tear and are supplied from the copied note.]* --- **Img. 9 - The original sealed note** > I do owe and am justly indetted to James Clark in the Sum of Two Hundred Eyhteen Dollars & ten Cents to be paid Six Months After date with Intrest from this date here of is witness whereof I herounto put my hand and Seal this 3d Janry 1809 > > $2.18..10 [i.e., $218.10] > Witness > Gedeon Seymer > George Gayden (L.S.) **Img. 10 - Back of the note** > G. Gayden > Note $218..10 > > [In a scrolled border:] Recd [?] --- **Img. 7 - Original writ (printed form)** > 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 George Gayden*** wheresoever ***he*** may be found within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel ***him*** 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 ***second*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** next, to answer to ***James Clark of a plea that he render unto him two hundred and eighteen dollars and ten cents which to him the said George owes and from him unjustly detains to his damage one hundred 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 the Honorable JOHN FAUCHERAUD GRIMKE, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State, at ***Lancaster court house*** the ***second*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***eleven*** and in the thirty-***fifth*** Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > > ***Abram Blanding*** Pltffs. Atty. > > [Left margin:] Jno. Simpson Clk --- **Img. 8 - Back of the original writ (endorsements)** > [Top, across the printed notice:] > I have Caused a Copy of this Writ to be left at the house of the within named Defft with the legal notice thereon indorsed by my Special Deputy J. Douglas > this 25th Octr 1811 > Perry S.L.D. > > [Center panel:] > Lancaster District > James Clark > v } Writ in Debt > George Gayden > > Abram Blanding > > [Left panel:] > Filed in my office 16th > October 1811 > Perry S.L.D. > > Shff Cost $2.25 --- **Img. 6 - Judgment** > And now at this day to wit the second monday after the fourth monday in March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twelve at the court of common pleas holden [struck: for] at Lancaster court house come the said James Clark by his attorney aforesaid and prays that the said George Gayden to the declaration of the said James may answer and the said George being solemnly called comes not but makes default whereby the said James remains thereof against him undefended. > > Therefore it is considered by the court aforesaid that the said James ought to recover against the said George his debt aforesaid and also his damages by him sustained by reason of the detention of the said debt. but because it is unknown what those damages are. Therefore it is ordered that the same should be submitted to the Clerk of the court now here to ascertain the sum actually due to the said James. and the said Clerk does therefore assess the damages of the said James by reason of the detention of the said debt besides his costs and charges by him expended to forty nine dollars and sixty cents. Therefore it is considered by the court now here that the said James do recover against the said George his debt and damages so as aforesaid assessed and also twenty one dollars and sixty seven cents for his costs and charges aforesaid to him by the court now here with his assent adjudged which said damages costs and charges in the whole amount to seventy one dollars and twenty seven cents > > And be the said George in mercy and so forth --- **Img. 5 - Docket of the judgment (bill of costs)** > James Clark > v } Judgmt > Geo. Gayden > > Blanding > > Debt - 218.10 > Damages - 49.60 > 267.70 > Atto costs - 14.35 [?] > Clks do - 5.07 > Shffs do - 2.25 21.67 > 289.37 --- **Img. 4 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "Fi. Fa. in Debt")** > 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, that of the goods and chattels, houses, lands and other hereditaments and real estates of ***George Gayden*** you cause to be levied, a certain Debt of ***two hundred and eighteen dollars and ten cents*** which ***James Clark*** in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster court house*** lately recovered against the said ***George*** AND ALSO the Sum of ***seventy one dollars and twenty seven cents*** awarded to the said ***James*** for ***his*** Damages, which ***he*** sustained, as well by reason of the Detention of the said Debt, as for ***his*** Costs and Charges by ***him*** expended in and about prosecuting ***his*** Suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***George is*** convicted, as appears on record. And that you have the said Monies before the said Judges, 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 render to the said ***James for his*** Debt and Damages aforesaid. And have you there this Writ, before the Clerk of the said Court, fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court. > > WITNESS the Honorable JOHN FAUCHERAUD GRIMKE, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State, at ***Lancaster court house*** the ***second*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and ***twelve*** and in the thirty ***sixth*** Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > > ***Blanding Plff Atto.*** > > [Left margin:] Jno. Simpson Clk --- **Img. 3 - Back of the fi. fa. (endorsements)** > [Left panel:] > Filed in my office 14th > Sept 1812 > Perry S.L.D. > > [Center panel:] > Renew > > James Clark > v } Fi. Fa. in [struck: Debt] Debt > George Gayden > > Blanding > > Debt - - - 218.10 > Damages. 49.60 > 267.70 > Attos costs 14.35 [?] > Clks do. 5.07 > Shffs do 2.25 > 21.67 > 289..37 > > Renewed Feby 1st 1813 > > [Right panel, written vertically:] > Indulged by Plff [?] > Perry S.L.D.