# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 3300 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | James J. Harrison, bearer, v. Byram (Byrum) J. Blackmon (confession of judgment) | | **Dates** | 1843-1849 | | **Roll** | Roll 3300 | | **Pages in source images** | 6 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 3300. 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 [3300](3300/), 6 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:** - All sheets were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading. Imgs. 1 and 2 are two photographs of the same docket sheet. - The note (Img. 3) was made payable to Ann A. Blackmon or bearer, and was sued on by James J. Harrison as bearer. Roll 3345 (James J. Harrison and wife Ann A. v. Uriah Blackmon) shows that Ann A. Blackmon later married James J. Harrison. - No declaration, writ or judgment form was photographed; the roll holds the docket, the note, a receipt and the execution. ## Transcription **Imgs. 1 and 2 - Docket cover (confession)** > Roll 3300 > Lancaster > > James J. Harrison > bearer > vs } Confession > Byram J. Blackmon > > Clerk > > Confession - $127 - 97 > Int fr 23^d Nov^r 1843 > > Clk Fee - $3 - > Belongs to Pltff - > > Fi. Fa 14^th April 1846 > H. R. Price > Clk --- **Img. 3 - The original sealed note** > $136.64 1/2 One day after date I promise to pay Ann A. Blackmon or bearer one hundred & thirty six Dollars & 64 cents for Value Rec^d of her as witness my hand and seal November 22^d 1843 > Elisha Blackmon (L.S.) > Byrum J. Blackmon (Seal) *[The sum in figures has "1/2" written after the 64; the sum in words has no half cent.]* --- **Img. 5 - Writ of fieri facias on the confession (printed form: "Clerk's Execution")** > THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ***Lancaster*** DISTRICT > To all and singular the Sheriffs of the said State--Greeting: > > WHEREAS, ***B. J. Blackmon*** did on the ***14th*** day of ***April*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***46*** confess before the Clerk of the Court of the District aforesaid, (which confession has been duly registered) that he is justly indebted to ***Jas. J. Harrison bearer*** in the sum of ***one hundred and Twenty seven Dollars & ninety seven Cents and Interest from 23^d November 1843*** > > YOU, and each of you are therefore hereby commanded without delay, that of the Goods and Chattles, Houses, Lands and other Hereditaments and Real Estates of ***B. J. Blackmon*** you levy the said sum of money together with the interest which shall accrue on ***the same*** up to the day on which satisfaction shall be entered on this execution. > > AND also the sum of ***Three*** Dollars and [blank] Cents for the costs of the said confession. And you the said Monies before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas at ***Lancaster*** Court House, according to Law. And have you there this Writ before the Clerk of the said Court fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court. > > WITNESS, ***H. R. Price*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***fourteenth*** day of ***April*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty ***six*** and in the ***70th*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > > [Left margin:] H. R. Price > Clk **Img. 6 - Back of the execution (levy and costs)** > [Left panel:] > Ent^d 14 April 1846 > J. Adams > Shff > > I have Lev^d this fi fa on 300 acres Land more or less whereon Deft lives adj[oinin]g the Lands of [blank] Lattimer [?] as his property 17 Sep^r 1846 > J. Adams > 10 m[iles] Shff > > Entered 20 March 1849 > James Adams > Shff > > [Center panel:] > Roll 3300 > Lancaster > > Ja^s J. Harrison > bearer > vs } Fi. Fa. on Confes[sion] > B. J. Blackmon > > Clk > > Confess[io]n - $127 - 97 > Int fr 23^d Nov^r 1843 > > Clk Fee - 3 - > Ent^d 1.00 [?] > adv. 1.00 > Levy 1.00 > 10 m[iles] .50 > Com[missions] 3.38 [?] $6.88 > > my cost charged to Defend^t > > [Several lines are crossed through by a large looping signature or flourish written diagonally across the panel; it cannot be read with confidence.] *[The neighbour's name in the levy is written over a smudge; "Lattimer" is uncertain.]* --- **Img. 4 - Receipt in full (separate sheet)** > J. J. Harrison > v } Confession > B. J. Blackmon > > Int fr 23 Nov 1843 to 17 Nov 1845 [?] $127.91 [?] > 26.70 > 154.61 > Rec^d 75 > 79.61 > Int to 4 June 1847 [?] .70 > $80.31 [?] > > Rec^d of B. J. Blackmon Eighty dollars in full of the bal. of this case as above stated 4 June 1846 [?] > S. Beckham > agent *[The figures in the margins (8.93 1/2, 26.85, 26.70, 5.57 and others) are the clerk's interest calculations. The years in the interest lines and in the receipt are hard to read and do not agree with each other.]*