# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 4081

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Charles P. Baldwin, Charles J. Starr & Augustus E. Baldwin, trading as Baldwin, Starr & Co., assignees, v. A. B. Blackmon (Blackman) |
| **Dates** | 1854-1861 |
| **Roll** | Roll 4081 |
| **Pages in source images** | 30 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 4081. 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 [4081](4081/), 30 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. The transcription follows the order the case unfolded.
- Imgs. 3 and 4 are two photographs of the declaration; Imgs. 17 and 18 are two photographs of the writ.
- The defendant signed "A. B. Blackmon"; the clerk often wrote "Blackman."
- The clerk's name is read "J. A. Stewman" (it could be mistaken for "Sherman").
- The roll includes a notarial protest of the note at the Bank of Camden (1854), and a commission from the court to New York, with a deposition of Walter S. Starr taken there (1856). The commission came back by mail in a sealed envelope (Imgs. 5-6).
- Imgs. 13-14 list household and store goods of the defendant levied on and sold under the execution, with the buyers' names.

## Transcription

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

> [Right panel:]
> Roll 4081     [50 Exp [?]]
> Lancaster
>
> Baldwin, Starr & Co.
>    vs } Declar. in Debt
> A. B. Blackman
>
> J. B. Kershaw
> Pltffs Atty
>
> Filed 15^th Sept 1856 Rule Costs [?] same day
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> Order for Judgment 15^th Oct 1856
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> Fi. Fa. 26 March 1857
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> General Issue & payment & any thing else under general [illegible] [?]
>     Wylie [?]
>     Defts Atty
>
> Clinton & Secrest
>
> [Left panel:]
> We find for the Plaintiffs four hundred & Eighty nine dollars fifty nine cents.
>     William Robertson
>     Foreman
>
> Verdict - $489.59
> Int from 16 March 1857
>
> Atty - $26
> Clk - 7.00
> Shff - 1.85
> Witness - 5.50
> Commiss[io]n - 2.00 [?]     $41.35
>                            $530.94
>
> Recorded in Book Q
> page 44, 45

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**Imgs. 3 and 4 - Declaration**

> In the Common Pleas
> Spring Term A.D. 1856
>
> The State of South Carolina }
> Lancaster District } To wit: A. B. Blackmon
>
> the defendant was attached to answer to Charles P. Baldwin, Charles J. Starr, and Augustus E. Baldwin, copartners in trade under the name and style of Baldwin Starr & Co., assignees, the plaintiffs of a plea that the defendant render the Plaintiffs the sum of seventeen hundred dollars, which to the said plaintiffs, the said defendant owes and from the said Plaintiffs unjustly detains and so forth.
>
> Whereupon the [struck: defendant] Plaintiffs complain for that whereas, the defendant on the second day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty four at Camden S.C., to wit at Lancaster Court house in the district and State aforesaid, did make his certain writing obligatory commonly called a sealed note or single Bill, sealed with his seal and did then and there deliver the same with his own proper handwriting thereunto subscribed, bearing date the day and year last aforesaid, unto one E. Tryon, by which said writing obligatory, the defendant did promise to pay to the order of E. Tryon at the Bank of Camden South Carolina, Seventeen hundred dollars for value received, Three months after the date thereof, which period had elapsed before the commencement of this suit, and the said E. Tryon to whose order the said sealed note was payable then and there assigned and delivered the same to the Plaintiffs and directed payment of the same to be made to the Plaintiffs; and the Plaintiffs in fact say that the defendant did not pay the sum of money due by the said note to the said Plaintiffs although the same was there presented on the day when the same became due and payable.
>
> By reason whereof the defendant became liable to pay or render the said sum of money to the Plaintiffs whenever he should be thereunto afterwards required. Nevertheless the defendant, although often requested, the said sum of money hath not yet rendered, but the same to the Plaintiffs hath refused and still refuses to render, to the Damage of the Plaintiffs Three thousand four hundred Dollars, wherefore the Plaintiffs bring suit and so forth; and the Plaintiffs produce here in court the writing obligatory aforesaid, which testifies the debt aforesaid in form aforesaid, the date whereof is the day and year abovewritten, and so forth.
>
>     J. B. Kershaw
>     Pltffs atty

*["Plaintiffs" (over "defendant"), "of money," "and delivered," and "To the Damage of the Plaintiffs Three thousand four hundred Dollars" are written above the line.]*

**Img. 2 - Copy of the note**

> (Copy Note)
> Camden S.C. January 2 1854.
> Three months after date I promise to pay to the order of E. Tryon at the Bank of Camden South Carolina Seventeen Hundred Dollars, value Rec^d; witness my hand and seal.
> $1700          (Signed) A. B. Blackmon (Seal)
>
> (Endorsed)
> Pay Baldwin Starr & Co or order
>     E. Tryon

**Img. 9 - The original sealed note**

> Camden S.C. January 2^d 1854          1574 [?]
>
> Three Months after date I promise to pay to the Order of E. Tryon at the Bank of Camden South Carolina Seventeen hundred Dollars Value Rec^d Witness my hand and Seal
>
> $1700 -               A. B. Blackmon (Seal)
>
> Ap^l 2

*["Ap^l 2" below is the date the note fell due. The figure at the top right is uncertain.]*

**Img. 10 - Back of the note (payments and endorsements)**

> October 7^th 1854 Received on within note Thirteen hundred dollars $1300 -
>
> November 14^th 1854 Received on within note Forty four dollars $44 -
>
> Pay Baldwin Starr & Co or order
>     E. Tryon
>
> [struck: Pay Messrs Corning & Co] or order
> Pay J. B. Kershaw Esq
>     Baldwin Starr & Co
>
> [Below, several endorsements heavily struck through and blotted: "Pay ... [illegible] ... Cashier ... order ... [illegible]"]

*[The two payments, $1,344 in all, explain why the verdict was for $489.59 and not the face of the note.]*

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**Img. 11 - Notarial protest at the Bank of Camden, 1 April 1854 (printed form, Kershaw District)**

> THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, KERSHAW DISTRICT.
>
> On this Day, the ***first*** day of ***April*** Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty four***, and in the ***Seventy Eighth*** year of the Independence of the United States of America, at the request of the President and Directors of The Bank of Camden, South Carolina, I ***J. C. West [?]*** Esq. Notary Public and Justice of the Quorum, Ex-Officio, by lawful authority, duly sworn, admitted and commissioned, by Letters Patent, under the seal of the said State, residing and practising in the town of Camden, and State aforesaid, did exhibit the original ***note*** a true copy whereof is on the other side written, ***at the Bank of Camden South Carolina where the same is made payable and in the absence of the maker demanded payment from the Cashier which he refused. I then made out notices of non payment and demand of payment for E. Tryon addressed to Camden S.C. & also for A. B. Blackmon and Baldwin Starr & Co enclosed in a like notice for Corning & Co addressed to New York and deposited the whole in the post office in this town this day.***
>
> Therefore, I, the said Notary Public, at the request aforesaid, have Protested, and by these presents do solemnly and publicly Protest as well against the Drawer of the said ***note*** as the ***Endorsers*** [struck: and] and against all whom it may concern for Exchange, Re-Exchange, and all Costs, Charges, Damages and Interest, suffered or sustained, or to be suffered or sustained, for want of ***payment*** of the said ***note***.
>
> Thus done and protested at Camden, the day and year above written.
>
> In Testimonium Veritatis.     Protest $2.
>     ***J. C. West [?]*** Notary Public.
>
> [Notary's paper seal]

**Img. 12 - Back of the protest (copy of the note and endorsements)**

> Camden S.C. January 2. 1854.
> Three months after date I promise to pay to the order of E. Tryon at the Bank of Camden South Carolina Seventeen hundred Dollars value Rec^d. Witness my hand and Seal
> $1700 -          (Sig^d) A. B. Blackmon (Seal)
>
> Endorsed
> Pay Baldwin Starr & Co or order
>     E. Tryon
> Pay Messrs Corning & Co or order
>     Baldwin Starr & Co
> Pay W. J. Myatt [?] Cash[ie]r or order
>     Corning & Co

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**Img. 17 (and Img. 18) - Original writ (printed form: "Writ in Case - Banner Press, Columbia, S.C.")**

> 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 A. B. Blackmon*** the Defendant wheresoever found within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel 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 ***third*** Monday in ***March*** next, to answer to ***Charles P. Baldwin, Charles J. Starr and Augustus E. Baldwin copartners in trade under the name and style of Baldwin Starr & Co, assignees of a sealed note payable to E. Tryon or order*** the Plaintiff***s*** of a Plea [struck: of Trespass on the Case, and so forth, and also for certain promises and assumptions by the said Defendant to the said Plaintiff made and not performed, to the damage of the said Plaintiff] ***That the defendant do render the Plaintiffs the sum of Seventeen hundred dollars which to the said Plaintiffs the said defendant owes, and from the said Plaintiffs unjustly detains, to the damage of the said Plaintiffs Three thousand four 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 ***M. Naudin*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, [struck: in and] for ***Kershaw*** District [struck: aforesaid, at the place aforesaid,] the ***twentieth*** day of ***February*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty six*** and in the ***Eightieth*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***J. B. Kershaw*** Plaintiffs Attorney.
>
> [Left margin:] M. Naudin Clk [with a flourish for the seal]

*[The writ was issued by the clerk of Kershaw District, returnable at Lancaster.]*

**Img. 19 - Back of the writ (service)**

> [Left panel:]
> Ent^d 29 Feby 1856
>     J. P. [?] Lee [?]
>
> I have by [illegible] Belk personally served [the Deft] with a Copy of this writ 1 March 1856
>     [illegible signature]
>
> Ent 25
> Ser 1.00
> 12 m[iles] 60
>     1.85
>
> Service proven before me this 7 March 1856
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> [Center panel:]
> Lancaster     (904)
> Baldwin Starr
> & Co (assignees) } Writ
>    vs } in Debt
> A. B. Blackman
>
> J. B. Kershaw
> Pltffs Atty
>
> (Orig)

*[The sheriff's return is faint; the deputy's first name and the sheriff's signature could not be read with confidence.]*

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**Img. 26 - Interrogatory and notice of application for a commission**

> In the Common Pleas
> Lancaster -
>
> Baldwin Starr & Co
>    vs } Declon in Debt. Interrogatories to be propounded to Walter S. Starr, a witness examined on the part of the Plaintiffs residing in New York N.Y.
> A. B. Blackmon
>
> Interrogatory 1^st
> Are you acquainted with the Plaintiffs in this suit? Who compose the firm of Baldwin Starr & Co? Give their names in full?
>     J. B. Kershaw
>     Pltffs Atty
>
> Defendant and his attys will take notice that on ten days after the service of this notice, application will be made to the Clerk of the Court of Lancaster District for a Commission to issue to take the depositions of the above named witness.
>     J. B. Kershaw
>     Pltffs atty

**Img. 27 - Back of the interrogatory**

> Served J. C. Secrest with a copy 3^d Oct 1856
>     J. Williams
>
> Lancaster
> Baldwin Starr
> & Co (Assignees)
>    vs } [struck: illegible] Interrogatories
> A. B. Blackman
>
> (Orig^l)
> Filed 3^rd Oct 1856 in my office J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> Plaintiff names the following Commissioners -
> Moses Maclay
> Levi P. Stone
> Thomas Flamer [?]
> Jno. C. Barnes

**Img. 23 - Commission to examine witnesses, 13 October 1856 (printed form: "Commission to Examine Witnesses - Printed at the Ledger Office, Lancaster C.H.")**

> THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, LANCASTER DISTRICT.
>
> To ***Moses Maclay, Levi P. Stone, Thomas Flamer [?] & John C. Barnes Commissioners*** GREETING:
>
> Whereas a certain cause is now depending in the Court of ***Common Pleas*** at ***Lancaster CH*** in which ***Baldwin Starr & Co assignees*** Plaintiff and ***A. B. Blackman*** Defendant and it being necessary to the investigation of the said cause, that certain persons residing in ***the City of New York*** should be examined, as Witnesses: Now know ye, that in confidence of your prudence, ability and integrity, you are by these presents appointed, and full power and authority are given hereby to you, or any two or more of you, diligently to examine all such Witnesses as may be produced to you ... [the printed text continues with the directions for taking and returning the depositions] ...
>
> WITNESS, ***J. A. Stewman, Clerk*** of said Court, at the place first aforesaid, the ***13th*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty six*** and in the year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> [Commissioner's oath and clerk's oath, printed, with the court written in: "Common Pleas for Lancaster District S.C." The commissioner's oath is signed "Moses B. Maclay."]
>
> [Instructions to the Commissioners, printed; the packet is to be directed "to ***J. A. Stewman at Lancaster CH*** ... ***Clerk of the Court***."]
>
>     J. B. Kershaw
>     Pltffs atty

**Img. 20 - Back of the commission**

> Lancaster
> Baldwin Starr & Co
> assignees } Comm[issio]n to Examine Witness
>    vs
> A. B. Blackman
>
> J. B. Kershaw
> Pltffs atty

**Img. 22 - Affidavit of Charles J. Starr, New York, 6 October 1856**

> In the Common Pleas - Lancaster.
>
> Baldwin Starr & Co. Assignees
>    vs } Declon in Debt.
> A. B. Blackmon
>
> State of New York }
> New York City } S.S.
>
> Before me personally came Charles J. Starr, who being duly sworn on oath says that he is advised and believes that Walter S. Starr is a material witness for the Plaintiffs in the above stated case, and that said Witness resides in the City of New York. That Deponent is one of the firm of Baldwin Starr & Co. the Plaintiffs -
>                                          Charles J. Starr
> Sworn to & Subscribed before me this 6^th day of October 1856.
>     Moses B. Maclay
>     South Carolina Commissioner in New York State Affidavits &c. duly Commissioned & qualified
>     (over)
>
> [Pink paper seal of the commissioner]

**Imgs. 24-25 - Deposition of Walter S. Starr, New York, 23 October 1856**

> Deposition of Walter S. Starr of the City of New York, a witness produced, sworn and examined, the 23^d day of October in the year 1856, at the office of Moses B. Maclay, No. 51 Liberty Street, in said City, under and by virtue of a Commission issued out of the Hon. the Court of Common Pleas at Lancaster C.H. in the State of South Carolina, in a certain cause there depending and at issue, between Baldwin Starr & Co. assignees Plaintiffs, and A. B. Blackman Defendant, as follows:
>
> Walter S. Starr, of the City of New York, Merchant, aged Twenty Five years and upwards, being duly sworn, pursuant to the directions hereto annexed, on behalf of the Plaintiffs, doth depose and say as follows to wit:
>
> To the first interrogatory he saith: I am acquainted with each of them - Charles P. Baldwin, Charles J. Starr, and Augustus E. Baldwin composed the firm of Baldwin Starr & Co. the Plaintiffs and they only composed it. The firm of Baldwin Starr & Co. the Plaintiffs, as composed of said persons, commenced business May 1. 1851 and expired October 31. 1853 - and further deponent saith not.
>                                          Walter S. Starr
>
> Examination taken, reduced to writing and distinctly read to the witness, and by the witness subscribed & sworn to this 23^d day of October A.D. 1856 before us.
>     Moses B. Maclay Commissioner
>     John C. Barnes Commissioner
>     Levi P. Stone "
>
> Commissioners fees $5.00
> Witness per [?] .50
>          $5.50
> Paid by Pltffs.
>     Moses B. Maclay }
>     John C. Barnes } Commrs
>     Levi P. Stone }

*[Img. 24 was photographed upside down.]*

**Img. 21 - Certificate of the commissioners**

> State of New York
> City & County of New York ss: The execution of this Commission appears in the Schedule hereunto annexed.
>     Moses B. Maclay Commissioner
>     John C. Barnes Commissioner
>     Levi P. Stone Do

**Imgs. 5 and 6 - Envelope in which the commission was returned**

> [Front:]
> J. A. Stewman Esquire,
> Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas
> for Lancaster District at
> Lancaster C. H.
> South Carolina
>
> [Left end:]
> Baldwin, Starr & Co
>    vs
> A. B. Blackman
>
> This Commission was deposited by me in the Post Office at the City of New York closed Oct 25/56.
>     B. Maclay
>     Comm[issione]r
>
> [Back, across three red wax seals:]
> [J. C.?] Barnes Com[missione]r
> Maclay Comm^r
> Stone Comm^r
>
> Rec^d this Comm^n by mail 29^th Oct 1856
>     J. A. Stewman Clk

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**Img. 7 - Subpoena ticket to James H. Witherspoon (printed form)**

> THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
>
> To ***James H. Witherspoon Esq***
>
> By virtue of a writ of Subpoena to you directed, and herewith shown to you, you are required to be and appear, personally, before the ***Judges*** of the Court of ***Law*** [struck: Equity], of the said State, at the Court of ***Common Pleas*** to be holden for Lancaster District, at Lancaster Court House on the ***third monday in March instant*** [struck: next], to testify the truth, according to your knowledge, in a certain cause there now depending and to be tried between ***Baldwin Starr & Co*** Plaintiff***s*** and ***A. B. Blackman*** Defendant on the part and in behalf of the said ***Plaintiffs***
>
> Herein fail not, on pain of the forfeiture of Ten Pounds Proclamation Money, as well as the consequences that may fall thereon.
>
> Dated the place aforesaid, the ***14th*** day of ***March*** A.D. 185***7***.
>     ***J. B. Kershaw*** [struck: Solicitor] ***Pltff Atty***

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

> J. H. Witherspoon Esq
>
> Baldwin Starr & Co
> Blackman
> 5 days
>
> 5 days

**Img. 28 - Subpoena writ for the defendant (printed form: "Subpoena Writ - R. S. Bailey, Printer, Lancaster, S.C.")**

> THE STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
>
> TO ***Amand [?] Mayer***
>
> 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 Judges of the Court of Common Pleas and General Sessions, to be holden at Lancaster Court House, in and for the District of Lancaster, on the third Monday in ***March inst*** [struck: next], then and there to testify the truth, according to your knowledge, in a cause now depending, and then and there to be tried between [blank] Plaintiff and ***A. B. Blackman*** Defendant on the part and in behalf of the said ***Deft***.
>
> Herein fail not on pain of the forfeiture of Ten Pounds Proclamation Money, as well as the consequences that may fall thereon.
>
> WITNESS, ***John A. Stewman*** Esquire, Clerk of the said Court for Lancaster District, the ***5th*** day of ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty seven*** and in the ***81st*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***Clinton & Secrest Deft*** Attorneys
>
> [Left margin:] J. A. Stewman
>     Clk

*[The witness's given name is uncertain. The plaintiffs' name is left blank on this subpoena.]*

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**Img. 15 - Judgment (printed form: "Judgment on Issue Tried - Charlotte Press")**

> AND now, at this day, to wit, the ***third*** Monday [struck: after the] Monday in ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty seven*** to which day the trial of the issue aforesaid has been regularly continued at ***Lancaster*** Court-house; come the parties aforesaid, by their Attornies aforesaid, and the Issue aforesaid, is submitted to the Jury now here regularly drawn, sworn, and empannelled to try all Issues and execute all Writs of Enquiry, that were before them during the present term; and the said Jury, to wit: ***by William Robertson their*** Foreman, ***on their oaths say,*** [struck: on their oaths say, that the said] ***We find for the Plaintiffs four hundred & eighty nine Dollars fifty nine cents. William Robertson Foreman***
>
> as the said ***Plaintiffs*** in ***their*** declaration ha***ve*** alleged against ***him*** and they assess the damages of the said ***Baldwin Starr & Co*** above ***their*** costs and charges, by reason of the premises over and above ***their*** costs and charges, by ***them*** about ***their*** suit in this behalf expended to ***four hundred and eighty nine dollars fifty nine cents with interest from sixteenth March 1857***
>
> THEREFORE, it is considered by the Court now here, that the said ***Baldwin Starr & Co the Plaintiffs*** do recover against the said ***A. B. Blackman the Defendant the*** damages so found as aforesaid; also ***forty one dollars & 35 cts*** for ***their*** costs and charges aforesaid, to ***them*** by the Court, now here with ***his*** assent adjudged, which said damages, costs, and charges in the whole amount to [blank] dollars [blank] cents; And be the said ***Defendant*** in mercy and so forth.
>
>     ***J. B. Kershaw Pltff Atty***
>
> [Left margin:] Baldwin Starr & Co vs A. B. Blackman } Decl in Debt / Judgment Entered up & Signed 25^th March 1857
>     J. A. Stewman
>     Clk

**Img. 16 - Back of the judgment (costs)**

> Lancaster
>
> Baldwin Starr & Co
>    vs } Judgment in Debt
> A. B. Blackman
>
> J. B. Kershaw
> Pltffs Atty
>
> Verdict $489.59
> Int fr 16 March 1857
>
> Atty - 26
> Clk - 7.10
> Shff - 1.85
> Jury pd by J. Williams - 1.00
> Witnesses
> J. H. Witherspoon - 2.50
> S. B. Emmons - 2.50
> Comm[issioners] - 5.00
> Witness - .50

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**Img. 29 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "Fi Fa in Debt - Ledger Office")**

> 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 ***A. B. Blackman the Defendant*** you cause to be levied, as well a certain debt of ***four hundred and Eighty nine Dollars fifty nine cents*** as also the interest on the ***same*** [struck: sum] from the ***sixteenth*** day of ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty seven*** until satisfaction shall be made of this Execution; and also, [blank] dollars and [blank] cents, which ***Baldwin Starr & Co the Plaintiffs*** in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster*** Court House, lately recovered against the said ***Defendant also forty one Dollars & 35 cents*** for damages which ***they*** sustained as well by reason of the detention of the debt aforesaid, as for costs and charges, by ***them*** expended in and about prosecuting ***their*** suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***Defendant 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 [struck: Court House], to render to the said ***Plaintiffs for their*** debt and damages aforesaid.
>
> WITNESS, ***J. A. Stewman*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, the ***twenty fourth*** day of ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty seven*** in the ***Eighty first*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***J. B. Kershaw*** Plaintiffs Attorney
>
> [Left margin:] J. A. Stewman
>     Clk
>
> [Costs, in the margin:]
> Atty W & D [writ & declaration] 8 / 1 Sub writ 1 / Commission 5 / Argument 5 / Jury 1 / J & Ex 3     $26 [?]
> Clk W & D .87 / Docket .25 / [illegible] .75 / Order [?] .25 / [illegible] .50 / Commission .50 / Docketing [?] .25 / Issue [?] .25 / Record 1.50 / Satis[faction] .25 / J & Ex 1.25     $7.10 [?]
> Shff Writ 1.85
> Witnesses: Witherspoon 2.50 / Emmons 2.50 / Comm[issione]rs 5.50

*[The marginal costs are cramped and partly illegible; the totals agree with the docket.]*

**Img. 30 - Back of the fi. fa. (levy, sale and return)**

> [Left panel:]
> Ent^d 26 March 1857
>     H. Hancock
>     S.L.D.
>
> Nulla Bona
> 28 Oct 1857
>     H. Hancock
>
> Entered 9 March 1861
>     Amos McManus
>     S.L.D.
>
> [Center panel:]
> Roll 4081
> (27) Lancaster
> 144
>
> Baldwin Starr & Co
>    vs } Fi. Fa. in Debt
> A. B. Blackman
>
> J. B. Kershaw
> Pltffs Atty
>
> Verdict $489.59
> Int fr 16 March 1857
>
> Atty - $25 [?]
> Clk - 7.00
> Shff - 1.85
> [Shff] Hancock - 6.85 [?]
> Protest - 2.00
> Jury pd by J. Williams - 1.00
> Witnesses - .50
> J. H. Witherspoon - 2.50
> S. B. Emmons - 2.50
> Commissioners - 5.00
>
> Shff will collect $1.00 [?] cts only [?] costs from Deft
>     J. A. Stewman
>
> [Written vertically:] Pltffs [?] McManus [?] 1861 [?]
>
> [Right panel:]
> I have by my Special Dep[ut]y Wm. J. Shiper [?] levied this fi. fa. on one Double Corn Sheller, one Corn planter, 1 Shoe Box, one Lot of Sundries, one Pine Desk, Six Dry good Boxes, 1/2 Doz Chairs, 4 trunks, one Wash Stand, two pr of And Irons, one Saddle & Bridle, 1 looking glass and a lot of Crockery on [illegible] [?]
> 11 Sept 1857
>     H. Hancock
>     S.L.D.
>
> Above named articles sold 6 October 1857 at $11.73 cts
>     H. Hancock
>     S.L.D.
>
> N.B. Amt of Sale applied to costs in this case
>     H. Hancock
>     S.L.D.
>
> The Defendant has no more property that I can find upon which to levy this fi. fa. 28 Oct 1857
>     H. Hancock S.L.D.

**Imgs. 13 and 14 - List of the goods sold, with buyers**

> + 4 Trunks @5 - 25 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1/2 Doz Chairs @5 - 30 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 wash Stand @5 - 5 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 Looking Glass @ - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Pr Andirons @ - 5 - " " "
> + 6 Dry Goods Boxes @2 - 12 - " " "
> + 1 Pr Andirons @5 - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Pine Desk @5 - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Lot Crockery @5 - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Bridle & Saddle @5 - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Lot Bonnets @5 - 5 - " " "
> + 1 Lot Mattress [?] - 13 - Jefferson Belk
> + 3 Jugs - 3 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 Red Box - 27 - Jefferson Belk
> + 1 Red Box - 3 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 Shot Box - 4 - J. D. Blackmon
> + 1 Lot Wagon Boxes - 3 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 Lot of Drugs - 66 - Jefferson Belk
> + 1 Lot of Tricks [?] - 56 - J. D. Blackmon
> + 1 Lot Books (No 13) - 12 1/2 - J. A. P. Blackmon
> + 1 Box & Contents - 100 [blot] - Jefferson Belk
> + 2 Candy Cases - 1 - J. D. Blackmon
> + 1 Corn Planter - 1.75 - J. D. Blackmon
> + 1 Double Corn Sheller - 4.05 - Jefferson Belk
> + 1 Show Box - 2.00 - Jefferson Belk
>                       $11.75 1/2
>
> [Foot:] 1052 / 121 / 1173
>
> [Img. 14, the back, written sideways - the levy list:]
> One double Corn Sheller / One Corn Planter / One Shoe Box / One Lot of Sundries / One Pine Desk / Six Dry Goods Boxes / 1/2 Doz Chairs / four trunks / One wash Stand / 2 Pr And Irons / One Saddle / One bridal / One Looking Glass / One Lot of Crokery

*[The prices in the first lines are written as whole numbers but are evidently cents (for example "25" for four trunks at 5 cents each); the total is $11.75 1/2, which agrees with the sheriff's $11.73. Several item names are uncertain.]*