# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 402

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| **Case** | Jason Hicklin & Hugh Hicklin, Administrators of Arthur Hicklin, deceased, v. Micajah Crenshaw the younger (otherwise called McCager Crenshaw) |
| **Dates** | 1811-1814 |
| **Roll** | Box 11, Roll 402 |
| **Pages in source images** | 8 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 402 (Box 11). 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 [402](402/), 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, 5, 7 and 8 were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading.
- The defendant's given name is spelled "Maccajah," "Micajah," "Macajah" and "McCager" in different places; the note is signed "McCager Crenshaw" by his mark.
- The box number on the docket cover (Img. 1) is read as "B11"; the figures are partly overwritten.
- No execution is included in this roll.

## Transcription

**Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration**

> Roll D [?] No. 18 [?]
> Lancaster
> B11 R402
>
> Administrators of
> Arthur Hicklin decd
>    v } Declon in Asspt.
> Maccajah Crenshaw
>          $200
>
> 13
>
> Hooker Williams Attys
>
> 111..57
> 21..42
>
> Filed March 1st 1814 -
> Order for Judgment
>
> This case being refered to the Clerk to ascertain the sum actually due, I assess the damages of the Plff to One hundred & Eleven dollars 57 cents as actually due besides the Costs & charges
> 13 April 1814 -
>
> Judgment May 14th 1814

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**Img. 2 - Declaration (printed form: "Declaration on Note - Printed by F. M. Baxter"), with copy of the note**

> In the common pleas
> South Carolina } To wit.
> ***Lancaster*** DISTRICT. }
>
> ***Maccajah Crenshaw the younger otherwise called McCager Crenshaw*** was attached to answer to ***Jason Hicklin and Hugh Hicklin administrators of all and singular the goods and chattles rights and credits of Arthur Hicklin deceased***, in a plea of Trespass on the case, and so forth. AND WHEREUPON the said ***Jason and Hugh administrators as aforesaid*** by ***Hooker Williams their*** Attorneys complain, THAT WHEREAS the said ***Maccajah*** on the ***sixteenth*** day of ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***Eleven*** at ***Lancaster court house*** in the district of ***Lancaster*** in the state aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Court, did make ***his*** certain note in writing, commonly called a promissory note, ***his*** own proper hand being thereto subscribed bearing date the same day and year aforesaid, and then and there delivered the said note to the said ***Arthur Hicklin in his life time*** and thereby ***faithfully promised the said Arthur in his lifetime as aforesaid that he the said Maccajah five days after the date of the said note, would well and truly pay or cause to be paid to the said Arthur the Just sum of ninety one dollars and seventy two cents*** 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, the said ***Maccajah*** became liable to pay to the said ***Arthur in his life time as aforesaid*** the said sum of money mentioned in the said note, according to the tenor and effect of the said note ***five days after the date of the said note*** and being so liable ***he*** the said ***Maccajah*** in consideration thereof, afterwards, to wit, on the same day and year aforesaid, at ***Lancaster court house*** aforesaid, undertook and faithfully promised the said ***Arthur in his lifetime as aforesaid*** to pay ***him*** the said sum of money mentioned in the said note, according to the tenor and effect of the said note ***when he should be afterwards thereunto requested.***
>
> ***Yet the said Maccajah his promise and assumptions aforesaid not regarding, the said sum of ninety one dollars and seventy two cents or any part thereof to the said Arthur in his lifetime, or to the said Jason and Hugh after the death of him the said Arthur hath not paid altho so to do the said Maccajah afterwards by the said Arthur in his life time towit on the [struck: illegible] same day and year last aforesaid and by the said Jason and Hugh after the death of him the said Arthur towit the sixteenth day of October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred and thirteen and often afterwards towit at Lancaster court house aforesaid was he requested; but the same to the said Arthur in his lifetime, and to the said Jason and Hugh after the death of the said Arthur hath refused, and the same to the said Jason and Hugh to pay still doth continue to refuse, to the damage of the said Jason and Hugh two hundred Dollars, and therefore they bring suit and so forth: and the said Jason and Hugh brings here into court their letters of administration of the said Arthur, by which it appears to the court here that the said Jason and Hugh are the administrators of all and singular the goods and chattles rights and credits of the said Arthur and thereof hath administration and so forth***
>
>     ***Hooker Williams Plffs Attys***
>
> (Copy Note)
> "Five days after date I promise to pay Arthur Hicklen or order the Just
> "sum of ninety one dollars and seventy two cts Value recd this 16 March 1811
> Jas. Cheves Junr.          (Signed)          McCager (his + mark) Crenshaw

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**Img. 5 - The original promissory note**

> Five Days after Date I promise to pay
> Arthur Hicklin or order the Just Sum
> of Ninety one Dollars and Seventy two cts value
> recd this 16 March 1811
>                       his
>             McCager + Crenshaw
> Jas. Cheves Junr.     mark

**Img. 6 - Back of the note (docket and interest calculation)**

> [Copy?]
> Crenshaw
> Note
> $91.72
>
> [Calculation:]
> 91.72
> 7
> 642.04
> 9.26..12 [?]
> 53
> 19.79
> 91..72 [?]
> 111..51 [?]
>
> [Fragment:] fi[led] [?]
> Declon filed

*[Ink from the front of the note shows through as mirror writing.]*

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**Img. 8 - 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 Maccajah Crenshaw the younger otherwise called McCager Crenshaw*** 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 ***Jason Hicklin and Hugh Hicklin administrators of all and singular the goods and chattles rights and credits of Arthur Hicklin deceased in a plea of trespass on the case and so forth also for certain promises and assumptions by the said Maccajah to the said Arthur in his lifetime made and not performed to their damage 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 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 ***thirteen*** and in the ***thirty fourth*** [sic] Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***Hooker Williams*** Plff's. Att'ys
>
> [Left margin:] Jno. Simpson
>     Clerk

**Img. 7 - Back of the original writ (acceptance of service)**

> [25]
> Lancaster
>
> Admrs of Arthur
> Hicklin decd
>    v } writ in Aspt.
> Macajah Crenshaw
>          $200
>
> Hooker Williams
> Original
>
> I accept the service of this
> writ for October term
> 1813. 16 Octr 1813 -
>            his
>     Micajah + Crenshaw
> Test       mark
> Hooker Williams

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**Img. 4 - Judgment (printed form: "Judgment on Writ of Enquiry")**

> ***Spring*** TERM, 18***14***
>
> 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 ***fourteen*** come the said ***administrators*** by ***their*** Attorneys aforesaid, and pray that the said ***Micajah*** to the Declaration of ***them*** the said ***administrators*** may answer: And the said ***Micajah*** being solemnly called, come not, but make default, whereby the said ***administrators*** remain thereof against ***him*** undefended. Wherefore it is considered by the court now here, that the said ***administrators*** ought to recover against the said ***Micajah their*** damages by ***them*** 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 referred to the Clerk of the said Court, to ascertain the Sum actually due by the said ***Micajah*** to the said ***administrators*** pursuant to the direction of the act of the General Assembly of the said State, in such case made and provided; and the said Clerk thereupon having ascertained the same, and assessed the damages of the said ***administrators*** by reason of the premises, besides ***their*** costs and charges by ***them*** expended in and about prosecuting ***their*** suit in this behalf, to ***One hundred and Eleven Dollars fifty one cents***
>
> THEREFORE it is considered by the Court now here, that the said ***Micajah*** [sic] do recover against the said ***Micajah their*** damages so ascertained and assessed as aforesaid; and also ***the sum of Twenty One Dollars and forty two Cents*** for ***their*** Costs and Charges aforesaid, to ***them*** by the Court now here with ***their*** assent adjudged; which said damages, Costs and Charges, in the whole, amount to ***One Hundred and thirty Two [?] Dollars and Ninety three Cents***
>
> and be the said ***Micajah*** in mercy, and so forth.
>
> [Top margin:] Judgment Entered and Signed May 14th 1814
>     Jno. Simpson Clk

*[The judgment writes "Micajah" where "administrators" is meant as the parties who recover. The docket cover gives the assessment as $111.57 and the bill of costs as $111.51; $111.51 plus $21.42 is $132.93.]*

**Img. 3 - Docket of the judgment (bill of costs)**

> Lancaster
>
> Admrs of A. Hicklin
> decd
>    v } Judt by Default on Assessment
> Micajah Crenshaw
>
> Hooker Williams
>
> Assessment $111.51
>
> attys cost
> writ L1.
> Decl. 1.5
> Sub. W. .5.
> Judt. .15.
> Reg. do. 1.
> Ex. .6
>     L3.12 = $15.42
>
> Clerks Costs - 6-00
>                21.42