# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 3345

| | |
|---|---|
| **Case** | James J. Harrison and wife Ann A. v. Uriah Blackmon |
| **Dates** | 1843-1846 |
| **Roll** | Roll 3345 |
| **Pages in source images** | 10 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 3345. 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 [3345](3345/), 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:**

- Most sheets were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading.
- No box number appears on the papers photographed.
- Several sheets have large holes eaten or torn through the middle (Imgs. 1, 2, 7 and 8). On the declaration (Img. 2) the torn-off strip is photographed beside the main sheet, so most of the text can be pieced together; words lost in the holes are marked `[torn]`.
- The original note (Imgs. 3-4) is torn in two; only the right-hand part survives in the photographs. Its full text is given in the copy at the foot of the declaration.

## Transcription

**Img. 8 - Original writ (printed form: "Writ in Debt"; badly torn)**

> 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 Uriah Bl[ackmon]*** [torn] the Defendant wheresoever found within [torn], so that you compel the said Defendant to b[e and appear] before the Associate Judges of the said St[ate], [at the Court of Common Pleas, t]o be holden at ***Lancaster*** Court H[ouse, in and] for the District of ***Lancaster*** [on the ... Monday af]ter the ***fourth*** Monday in ***March*** [torn] to answer to ***James J. H[arrison and] his wife the pl[aintiffs]*** [torn] of a Plea that the Defendant do render to the Plaintiff the sum of ***Ninety four dollars 13 cents*** Cents, which to the said Plaintiff the said Defendant owe and from the said Plaintiff unjustly detain to the damage of the said Plaintiff ***two 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, ***H. R. Price*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***9th*** day of ***March*** 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.
>
>     ***Wright & Stewart*** Plaintiff's Attorney.
>
> [Left margin:] H. R. Price Clk

**Img. 7 - Back of the writ (torn)**

> [Left panel:]
> [Entered ...] [M]ar 1846
>     [J.] Adams
>     Shff
>
> [Copy le]ft for [deft at] his house [... M]ar 1846
>     J. Adams
>     Shff
>
> Ent. - 25
> Ser. - 1
> 10 m[iles] - 50
>          1.75
>
> [Center panel:]
> Lanc[aster]
> James J. [Harrison ...]
>    vs
> U. Blackmon
>
> Wright & Stewart
> Plffs [Attys]
>
> Service proven before me
>     H. R. Price
>     Clk

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**Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration (torn)**

> [Right panel:]
> [Roll] 3345
> [Lanc]aster
> [Fall] Term 1846
>
> [James J.] Harrison
> [and] wife
>    vs } Decl. in Debt
> [Uriah B]lackmon
>
> [Wright] & Stewart
>
> [Filed] 17th October 1846
> Order for Judgt. same day
>     H. R. Price
>     Clk
>
> I ascertain the [amount] due the Plaintiff in this Case to be one hundred & thirteen Dollars & eighteen cents with interest on Ninety four Dollars and 13 cents from 16th Nov 1846
>     H. R. Price
>     Clk
>
> Fi. Fa. 26 Nov 1846
>     H. R. Price
>     Clk
>
> [Left panel:]
> Assmt.
> Int. on $94.13 fr. 16 Nov 1846 - $113.18
> Atty - 12
> Clk - 4.12 1/2
> Shff - 1.75
>          18.87 [?]
>
> Recorded in Book [illegible]
> page 357

**Img. 2 - Declaration (torn), with copy of the note**

> South Carolina } To Wit In the Common
> Lancaster District } Pleas Fall Term 1846.
>
> Uriah Blackmon the Defend[ant was] attached to answer to James J. Harrison and wife Ann A. his wife, the [plaintiffs, of] a plea of debt &c. And thereupon the said Plaintiffs by Wright & Ste[wart their] Attornies complain, For that whereas the said Defendant heretofore [when] the said Ann A. was sole and unmarried, to wit on the twenty sec[ond day of] November in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred [and forty th]ree, at Lancaster Court House, in the District and State aforesaid [and within] the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, did make his certain [writing o]bligatory, commonly called a sealed Note, sealed with his se[al, bea]ring date the day and year last aforesaid, and then and there [delivered] the same to Ann A. Blackmon, by which said writing obliga[tory the said] Defendant then and there promised to pay to the said Ann A. [Blackmon] Ninety Four Dollars and thirteen cents, by the twenty fifth day of Decem[ber nex]t after the date thereof, For value received.
>
> Yet the said Defe[ndan]t hath not as yet paid the said sum of money, or any part thereof [to th]e said Ann A. whilst she was sole and unmarried, although [reque]sted to do so, or to the said James J. Harrison and Ann A. his wife, or either of them, since their marriage, but to pay the same hath hitherto wholly refused and neglected and still doth refuse and neglect to pay the same, or any part thereof to the said Plaintiffs, to the damage of the said Plaintiffs Two Hundred Dollars and therefore they bring suit &c. And the said Plaintiffs produce here in Court the writing obligatory aforesaid, which proves the debt aforesaid, in manner and form aforesaid, the date whereof is the day and year above written.
>
>     Wright & Stewart Plffs Attys
>
> $94.13 By the twentyfifth of Decr next I promise Ann A. Blackmon or bearer Ninety four 13/100 Dollars for value received, witness my hand & seal 22nd November 1843
>     Uriah Blackmon (L.S.)

*["his wife" is written above "Ann A." in the opening line. The words in square brackets are supplied where the paper is torn.]*

**Img. 4 - The original sealed note (right-hand portion only)**

> [torn] [twent]yfifth of Decr next I promise
> [torn] or bearer ninety four 13/100 Dollars
> [torn] my hand and seal
> [torn] [184]3
>                 Uriah Blackmon (L.S.)

**Img. 3 - Back of the note**

> U. Blackmon
> $94.13

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**Img. 9 - Subpoena to A. B. Blackmon (printed form: "Subpoena Writ - Morgan's Press, Columbia, S.C.")**

> The State of South Carolina, }
> ***Lancaster*** District. }
>
> To ***A. B. Blackmon***
>
> You, and each of you, are hereby strictly required and firmly enjoined, that all business being laid aside, and all excuses ceasing, you do, in your proper person, appear before the Associate Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at ***Lancaster Court House*** for ***Lancaster*** District, on the ***third Monday after the fourth*** Monday in ***October*** next, then and there to testify the truth, according to your knowledge, in a certain cause now depending and to be tried, between ***James J. Harrison et uxor*** Plaintiff and ***Uriah Blackmon*** Defendant on the part of the said ***Plff***
>
> Herein fail not, on pain of the forfeiture of Ten Pounds Proclamation Money, as well as the consequences that may fall thereon.
>
> WITNESS ***H. R. Price*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, the ***20th*** day of ***June*** 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.
>
>     ***Wright & Stewart Plffs*** Attorney.
>
> [Left margin:] H. R. Price Clk

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

> Lancaster
> Jas. J. Harrison et ux
>    vs } Sub. Writ
> Uriah Blackmon
>
> Wright & Stewart
> Plff Attys
>
> Writ
> A. B. Blackmon

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**Img. 5 - Judgment (printed form: "Judgment by Default in Case - Referred to Clerk - Printed by T. W. Pegues, Camden, S.C.")**

> AND now at this day, to wit, the ***third Monday after the fourth*** Monday in ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***forty six*** to which day the said ***Uriah Blackmon the Defendant*** had leave to answer to the declaration aforesaid of the said ***James J. Harrison and wife the Plaintiffs*** at a Court to be held at ***Lancaster*** before the Justices of the COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, come the said ***Plaintiffs*** by ***their*** Attorneys aforesaid, and pray that the said ***Defendant*** to the declaration aforesaid may answer; and the said ***Defendant*** though solemnly called, doth not come nor say any thing in bar or preclusion of the action aforesaid, but hath made default; wherefore the said Plaintiff remain against him undefended; wherefore the said Plaintiff ought to recover against the said Defendant damages sustained by reason of the premises; and because the same is a liquidated demand, according to the Act of the General Assembly of the said State, in such case made and provided, it becomes unnecessary to execute a Writ of Inquiry, but only on motion to the Court, to refer the demand to the Clerk thereof, to ascertain the amount due:- and the same being so referred, the said Clerk, finds the amount of the principal and interest to be ***One hundred and thirteen Dollars and 18 cents with interest on Ninety four dollars and 13 cents from the 16th November 1846***
>
> THEREFORE it is considered, that the said ***Plaintiffs*** do recover against the said ***Defendant*** as well the said sum of ***One hundred and thirteen Dollars and 18 cents and interest as aforesaid*** so found, as also ***eighteen dollars eighty seven & a half cents*** for ***their*** costs and charges, by ***them*** in and about prosecuting ***their*** suit in this behalf expended, and to ***them*** by the Court with ***their*** assent adjudged, amounting in the whole to ***one hundred thirty two Dollars & 05 1/2 cents*** and be the said ***Defendant*** in mercy and so forth.
>
> [Top margin:] Judgt. Entd. up & Signed 26 [Nov 1846]
>     H. R. Price
>     Clk

**Img. 6 - Back of the judgment (bill of costs)**

> James J. Harrison
> & wife
>    vs } Judgment
> Uriah Blackmon
>
> Wright & Stewart
> Plffs Attys
>
> Assmt. - $113.18
> Int. on $94.13 fr. 16 Nov 1846
>
> Atty Writ & Decl. - 8
> 1 Sub. W. - 1
> J. & Ex. - 3     12.00
>
> Clk Writ & Decl. - .87 1/2
> Sub. W. - .12 1/2
> Ent. assmt. - .25
> 1 Sub. W. - .37 1/2 [?]
> J. & Ex. - 1.25
> Record - 1.50
> Subpoena - .25     5.12 1/2 [?]
>
> Shff Ent. & Ser. - 1.25
> 10 m[iles] - .50     1.75

*[The clerk's items as read add to more than the $4.12 1/2 on the docket cover; one figure is probably misread. The judgment's costs of $18.87 1/2 agree with the docket cover.]*