# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 5473

| | |
|---|---|
| **Case** | Eleanor (Elenor) Blackmon v. J. D. Caskey |
| **Dates** | 1858-1863 |
| **Roll** | Roll 5473 |
| **Pages in source images** | 11 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 5473. 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 [5473](5473/), 11 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 ink on the declaration is pale.
- No box number appears on the papers photographed.
- This is the third of the parallel suits by Eleanor Blackmon on the sealed note of 4 October 1858 signed by J. D. Caskey, J. B. Cousart and W. S. Harper (see Rolls 5442 and 5443). The original note and its endorsed payments are filed in this roll (Imgs. 3-4), and Eleanor Blackmon's receipt for the money (Img. 5).
- The printed forms and their fill-ins are the same as in Rolls 5442 and 5443; the declaration is transcribed in full and the repeated printed wording of the judgment and execution is given only in part.

## Transcription

**Img. 3 - The original sealed note**

> $208.06  One day after date we or Either of us do promise to pay Elenor Blackmon or bearer the sum of Two hundred and Eight dollars and six cents for value received witness our hands and seals this 4th day October 1858
>     J. D. Caskey (Seal)
>     J. B. Cousart (Seal)
>     W. S. Harper (Seal)

**Img. 4 - Back of the note (payments)**

> Mr. J. Caskey
> Recd on the within note $1.00 [?] this the 4 Oct 1858
> Recd of Mr. [?] J. Caskey on the within note 10 [?] Feb [?] 14, 1858 [?]
> Mr. James Caskey [?] Recd on the within note 25 February the 8 1860

*[These payment endorsements are cramped and faint; the amounts and some dates are uncertain.]*

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**Img. 10 - Original writ (printed form: "Copy Writ in Case - Ledger Print")**

> 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 J. D. Caskey*** 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 ***October*** next, to answer to ***Elenor Blackmon the Plaintiff of a Plea that Defendant render unto Plaintiff the sum of two hundred and eight dollars and six cents which to the said Plaintiff the said Defendant owes and from the said Plaintiff unjustly detains to the damage of the said Plaintiff four hundred*** [struck: of a plea of Trespass on the Case, &c., to the damage of the said Plaintiff] 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, ***J. H. Hanna [?]*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District of Lancaster at Lancaster Court House the ***twenty eighth*** day of ***September*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty*** and in the ***eighty fifth*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>
>     ***William A. Moore*** PLAINTIFF'S ATTORNEY.
>
> [Left margin:] J. H. Hanna [?] Clk

**Img. 11 - Back of the writ (acceptance of service)**

> Lancaster
> Elenor Blackmon
>    vs } Writ in Debt
> J. D. Caskey
>
> Moore
> Plff Atty
>
> I accept service of this writ to Fall Term 1860. Sept 29th 1860
>     J. D. Caskey
>
> (Original)

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

> Roll 5473
> Lancaster
> Book 13
>
> Elenor Blackmon
>    vs } Declaration in Debt
> J. D. Caskey
>
> Moore
> Plff Atty
>
> Filed 8th Feby 1861
> Order for Judgment same day
>     J. H. Hanna [?]
>     Clk
>
> [Crossed through:] I assess the debt ... [illegible] ...
>
> I assess the debt and interest due to the Plaintiff in this case to be Two hundred and five dollars [ninety two cents] with interest from the 21 October 1861
> $205.92
>     H. J. [?] Hancock
>     Clk
>
> Atty - 11
> Clk T. - .50
> Clk H. - 4.50
>          16.00

**Img. 2 - Declaration (printed form: "Declaration on Bond or Sealed Note - Printed at the Lancaster Ledger Office"), with copy of the note**

> The State of South Carolina, } IN THE COMMON PLEAS.
> ***Lancaster*** DISTRICT. }
>
> ***J. D. Caskey*** the Defendant ***was*** attached to answer to ***Elenor Blackmon*** the Plaintiff of a Plea, that the said Defendant render unto said Plaintiff the sum of ***two hundred and eight dollars and six cents*** which to the said Plaintiff the said Defendant owes and justly detains &c.; thereupon the said Plaintiff by ***William A. Moore her*** Attorney complains that whereas, the said Defendant heretofore, to wit; on the ***fourth*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***fifty eight*** at Lancaster Court House in the District and State aforesaid, by ***his*** certain writing obligatory, (commonly called a sealed Note) sealed with the Seal of the said Defendant acknowledged ***himself*** to be indebted to the said Plaintiff in the sum of ***two hundred and eight dollars and six cents*** above demanded; yet the said Defendant although often requested so to do, has not as yet paid the said sum of money above demanded, or any part thereof, to the said Plaintiff, but has hitherto neglected and refused, and still neglects and refuses so to do. Whereupon the said Plaintiff says that ***she is*** injured, and has sustained damage, to the amount of ***four hundred dollars*** and therefore ***she*** brings suit &c.
>
> And the said Plaintiff brings into Court, the ***writing obligatory*** aforesaid, sealed as aforesaid, which is sufficient evidence to the Court of the said debt in manner and form aforesaid, the date whereof is the day and year therein written, and in that behalf above mentioned.
>
>     ***William A. Moore***
>     Plaintiff's Attorney.
>
> (Copy Sealed Note)
> $208.06  One day after date we or either of us do promise to pay Elenor Blackmon or bearer the sum of two hundred and eight dollars & six cents for value received witness our hands and seals this 4th day October 1858.
>                                     J. D. Caskey (Seal)
>     (Signed)                        J. B. Cousart (Seal)
>                                     W. S. Harper (Seal)

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**Img. 9 - Judgment (printed form: "Judgment on Writ of Inq. Damages assessed by Clerk, Debt or Assumpsit - Ledger Press")**

> ***Fall*** TERM, 18***61***
>
> And now at this day, to wit, the ***third*** Monday in ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty one*** come the said ***Eleanor Blackmon*** the Plaintiff by ***her*** Attorney aforesaid, and pray that the said ***J. D. Caskey*** the Defendant to the Declaration of ***her*** the said Plaintiff may answer: and the said Defendant being solemnly called, come not, but make default ... *[printed form as in Roll 5442]* ... and the said Clerk thereupon having ascertained the same, and assessed the ***debt and*** Damages of the said Plaintiff by reason of the premises, besides ***the*** costs and charges by ***her*** expended in and about prosecuting ***her*** suit in this behalf, to ***[struck: two hundred and fifty two dollars and thirty nine cents] the One hundred and eighty eight dollars & sixty cents [?]*** with interest on ***the same*** from the ***twenty first*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty one***
>
> THEREFORE, It is considered by the Court now here, that the said Plaintiff do recover against the said Defendant the said sum of ***[struck: two hundred and fifty two dollars and thirty nine cents] the debt and*** the damages so ascertained and assessed as aforesaid; and also ***Sixteen dollars*** for ***her*** costs and charges aforesaid, to ***her*** by the Court now here, with ***her*** assent adjudged; which said ***debt*** damages, costs and charges, in the whole amount to ***[struck: two hundred and sixty eight dollars and thirty nine cents] Two hundred & four [?] 60/100 [?] dollars*** with interest on ***[struck: two hundred and fifty two dollars and thirty nine cents]*** from the ***twenty first*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty one***
>
> And be the said Defendant in mercy, and so forth.
>
>     ***William A. Moore***
>     Plaintiff's Attorney.
>
> [Top:] Judgment Entered up and Signed 31 Oct 1861
>     H. J. [?] Hancock
>     Clk
>
> [Figures in the corner:] 252.39 / 16 / 268.39

*[As in Rolls 5442 and 5443, the amounts were struck out and rewritten and the corrections are hard to read. The execution was issued for $205.92.]*

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

> Eleanor Blackmon
>    vs } Judgment
> J. D. Caskey

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**Img. 6 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "Fi. Fa. - For Sale at the 'Ledger' Office, Lancaster, 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, that of the Goods and Chattles, Houses, Lands, and other Hereditaments and Real Estates of ***J. D. Caskey*** the Defendent you cause to be levied the sum of ***two hundred and five [struck: fifty two] dollars and ninety two cents*** [struck: thirty nine cents] and also the interest on the ***same*** [struck: sum] from the ***twenty first*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty one*** until satisfaction shall be made of this Execution, [struck: which] ***and also*** [blank] dollars and cents which ***Eleanor Blackmon*** the Plaintiff in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster Court House*** in and for the District of ***Lancaster*** lately recovered against the said Defendant ***by reason of the detention and non payment of a certain debt and for the*** costs and charges by ***her*** expended, in and about prosecuting ***her*** suit in that behalf, whereof the said Defendant ***is*** convicted, as appears on record.
>
> And have you there this Writ, "according to law," and the said Moneys, before the Judges, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at the place aforesaid, to render to the said Plaintiff ***her*** Debt and Damages aforesaid.
>
> WITNESS, ***H. J. [?] Hancock*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, in and for the District aforesaid, at the place aforesaid, the ***twenty first*** day of ***October*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***sixty one*** and in the ***86th*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the [struck: United States of America] ***State of South Carolina***.
>
>     ***William A. Moore*** Plaintiffs Attorney.
>
> [Left margin:] H. J. [?] Hancock Clk
>
> [Bill of costs, upper left:]
> For Pltff
> Atty - 11
> Clk T. - .50
> Clk H. - 4.50
>          $16.00

**Img. 7 - Back of the fi. fa.**

> [Left panel:]
> Entd. 31 Oct 1861
>     Amos McManus
>     S.L.D.
>
> [Center panel:]
> Roll 5473     218
> Lancaster
> Eleanor Blackmon
>    vs } Fi. Fa. in Debt
> J. D. Caskey
>
> Moore
> Plff Atty
>
> Assessment - $205.92
> Int. fr. 21 Oct 1861 - [illegible]
>          $219.44 [?]
> Atty - 11.00
> Clk - 3.50
> do - 1.50
>          $16.00
> Shff - 3.12 [?]
>          $238.86 [?]
>
> Satisfied
> 7 March 1863
>     A. McManus
>     S.L.D.
>
> The Shff will collect 1/2 costs. This fi. fa. being for same debt as that of same Plaintiff against J. B. Cousart [and W. S. Harper]
>
> [Right panel:]
> Recd of Deft E. A. Caskey 7 March 1863 One hundred and thirty eight 86/100 [?] Dollars [illegible] of [illegible] [debt?] & costs in this case
>     A. McManus
>     S.L.D.

*[The figures and the right-hand receipt are cramped and partly uncertain.]*

**Img. 5 - Receipt of Eleanor Blackmon (blue paper slip pinned to the fi. fa.)**

> Received of E. A. Caskey one hundred Dollars on the case of Elenor Blackmon against J. D. Caskey, J. B. Cousart & W. S. Harper - this 20 [?] of March 1862
>                 her
>     Elenor (X) Blackmon
>                 mark
> Test
> Robert Marshall [?]

*[The witness's name is written in a flourished hand and is uncertain.]*