# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 586

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Perry & McKenzie v. James Blackman Jr. |
| **Dates** | 1826-1829 |
| **Roll** | Box 16, Roll 586 |
| **Pages in source images** | 3 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 586 (Box 16). Original records held by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC. Transcribed from photographs of the original judgment roll (image file: [Judgment Roll 586 - McKenzie vs Blackman.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%20586%20-%20McKenzie%20vs%20Blackman.pdf), 3 pages).

## 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.
- "PDF p." numbers refer to the page order of the source image file, which is not always the order the papers were written in.

## Transcription

**PDF p. 1 - Back of the execution (sheriff's levy and sale)**

> [Left panel:]
> Entered in my office 6 March 1826
>     Jno Sims Shff
>
> I have by my lawful deputy Wm Williams levied on the plantation whereon the defendant lives lying on the waters of Lynches Creek containing five hundred acres more or less, adjoining lands of James Reevs, Wm Bark[ley?] & others 8th Septr 1826
> 10 miles        John Sims Shff
>
> The above land bid of[f] by A. McIlwain at $505.12 1/2 2 Apl 1827
>     John Sims Shff
> Bid not paid -
>
> [Center panel:]
> B16 R 586    107
> Lancaster
> Perry & McKenzie
>    vs          } Fi Fa on Confession
> James Blackman Jr
>
> Confession - $161.10
> Int[erest] on $161.10 from 4 March 1826
>
> Clerks fees - $3.92
> Sims on fifa - $7.59
>
> Titles made 3 March 1829
>     Wm Williams Shff
>
> [struck: Wait orders]
> Proceed -

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**PDF p. 2 - Receipt pinned to the execution (scanned sideways)**

> Perry & McKenzie }  Rec'd 1st April 1826
>    vs            }  of Deft two Bales of
> James Blackmon   }  Cotton nett proceeds sixty dollars & 23/100
> in part of the above stated case
>                                 Perry
>                                 for
>                                 Perry & McKenzie

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**PDF p. 3 - Execution on the confession (printed form)**

> The State of South-Carolina, }
> ***Lancaster*** [struck: Kershaw] District. }
> TO ALL AND SINGULAR THE SHERIFFS OF THE SAID STATE - GREETING.
> WHEREAS, ***James Blackmon Jr*** did on the ***sixth*** day of ***March*** in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-***six*** confess before the Clerk of the Court of the district aforesaid, (which confession has been duly registered) that he is justly indebted to ***Perry & McKenzie*** in the sum of ***One hundred & sixty one Dollars & ten Cents***
> YOU, and each of you, are therefore hereby commanded without delay, that of the Goods and Chattels, Houses, Lands and other hereditaments, and real estates of ***James Blackmon Jr*** to levy the said sum of money together with the interest which shall accrue on ***the same from 4 March 1826*** up to the day on which satisfaction shall be entered on this execution. - AND also ***Three*** dollars and ***ninety two*** cents, for the costs of said confession. AND have you the said monies before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, at ***Lancaster*** Court-house, on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next.
> 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 ELIHU HALL BAY, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State, at ***Lancaster*** Court-house the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***October*** in the Year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-***five*** and in the [struck: forty] ***Fiftieth*** Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
> [Left margin:] Jno McKenzie ccpl