# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 588 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | Reuben Patterson v. James Blackman Jr. | | **Dates** | 1827-1834 | | **Roll** | Box 16, Roll 588 | | **Pages in source images** | 9 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 588 (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 588 - Patterson vs Blackman.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%20588%20-%20Patterson%20vs%20Blackman.pdf), 9 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 *[A note on the amount: the handwritten word before "nine dollars" could be read as "Twenty" or "Seventy." The figures "$79.16" on the note and the clerk's assessment of "seventy nine dollars & 16 cents" make it Seventy. The total of $102.39 is $79.16 plus $23.23 in costs, which confirms it.]* --- **PDF p. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration** > [Left panel:] > A[ssessed] - $79.16 > Int[erest] from 2nd July 1824 > Atty - 15.21 > Clk - 6.40 > Shff - 1.62 23.23 > $102.39 > > [Right panel:] > Roll 1[?] [struck: 22] 12 > Lancaster > B16 R 588 > Reuben Patterson > vs } Action in Debt > Jas Blackmon Jr > $200 > Williams & Clinton Plffs attys > > Ref[erred] > Filed 12th Septemr 1827 > Ord[ere]d for Judgt same day > > I assess the damages due the plaintiff in this case to seventy nine dollars & 16 cents with interest thereon from 2nd July 182[7 sic; 1824] till paid. > Jno McKenzie clk > > Recorded > [C?] > Ex[ecutio]n issued 3 Decr 1827 --- **PDF p. 2 - Declaration and copy of the note** > State of South Carolina } In the Common pleas > Lancaster District } > James Blackmon was attached to answer to Reuben Patterson of a plea of debt. Whereupon the said Reuben by Williams & Clinton his attorneys complains for that the said James on the twenty Eighth day of June in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty four at Lancaster Court House in the State & district aforesaid & within the jurisdiction of this honorable Court by his writing obligatory of that date sealed [with] his seal, with his name thereto subscribed Jas Blackmon Jr, which said writing obligatory is here in court to be produced, [struck: the] bound & acknowledged him self to be indebted to the said Reuben in the sum of [Seventy] nine dollars sixteen cents to be paid five days after the date of the said writing obligatory as aforesaid, yet although often requested, the said James [struck: the] said sum of money to the said Reuben hath not rendered, but to render the same he hath utterly refused and still continues to refuse to the damage of the said Reuben two hundred dollars - & therefore he brings suit &c. > Williams & Clinton > Pff Attys > > $79.16 five days after date I promise to pay Reuben Patterson or order [Seventy] nine Dollars and Sixteen Cents for value received, witness my hand and seal this 28th day June 1824. > Jas Blackmon Jr (L.S.) > > Pay the within note to Jas [sic; Jos.] Patterson for value recd 12th March 1827 - Reuben Patterson --- **PDF p. 3 - Back of the fi. fa.** > [Left panel:] > Entered in my office > 12 Decr 1827 > John Sims Sh > > Entered in my office > 9 Feby 1829 > Wm Williams Sh > > Lodged 11th Feby 1833 > John Sims Sh > > In action [?] 1 Apl 1833 > Nul[la] Bon[a] John Sims Sh > Nul[la] Bona 2 Nov 1833 - 10 m[iles] > N.B. 5 Apl 1834 - 10 ms > > [Center panel:] > 4 216 (8) > Lancaster > Reuben Patterson > vs } Fi Fa in debt > Jas Blackmon Jr > > Williams & Clinton > Pff attys > > Assessed $79.16 > with Int[erest] from 2d July 1824 > Atty - $15.21 > Clk - 6.40 [struck: ?] > Shff - 1.62 $23.23 > Sims on fifa - .93 > Williams on fifa - 4.96 > > Jo. Patterson > Real Pltf **PDF p. 4 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "[FI. FA. IN CASE.]"; stereotyped by J. Howe, N. York, for James Lyon, Editor of the Pee Dee Gazette)** > The State of South-Carolina. ***Lancaster*** District. > 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 ***James Blackmon Jr*** you cause to be levied, the sum of ***[Seventy] nine dollars 16/100*** and also the interest which shall accrue on ***the same*** [struck: being the principal sum of the judgment in this case,] from the ***second*** day of ***July*** in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***twenty four*** up to the day on which such levy shall be made and satisfaction entered on this execution, which ***Reuben Patterson*** in the Court of Common Pleas before the Judges of the said State at ***Lancaster*** Court-House, lately recovered against the said ***James*** for damages sustained by the said ***Reuben by reason of the detention of a certain debt which he owed to the said Reuben*** [struck: as well by reason of promises and assumptions by the said ... to the said ... made and not performed as for] ***also the sum of twenty three 23/100 dollars for his*** Costs and Charges by ***him*** expended in and about prosecuting ***his*** Suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***James is*** convicted, as appears on record. And that you have the said Monies before the said Judges, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at ***Lancaster*** Court-House, on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next to render to the said ***Reuben for his*** Damages, Costs and Charges aforesaid. And have you there this Writ, before the Clerk of the said Court, fifteen days next before the sitting of the said Court. > ***Witness John McKenzie Esqr Clerk of the court of Com. pleas for Lancaster District*** [struck: WITNESS, the Honorable ... Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State,] at ***Lancaster*** Court-House the ***29th*** [struck: Monday after the fourth Monday in] ***November*** in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***twenty seven*** and in the ***fifty second*** Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > ***Williams & Clinton*** Plaintiff's Att[orne]y > [Left margin:] Jno McKenzie clk --- **PDF p. 5 - Back of the original note** > Pay the within note to Jos. Patterson for Value Rec'd 12th March 1827 > Reuben Patterson > > Jas. Blackmon > Note > with R. Patterson > [struck: to Black...] > $94.16 > to 15 March 1827 *[$94.16 is presumably the note with interest to 15 Mar 1827.]* --- **PDF p. 6 - Original writ (attachment), 1827 (printed form: "[COPY WRIT.]"; stereotyped by J. Howe, N. York, for James Lyon, Editor of the Pee Dee Gazette)** > The State of South-Carolina. ***Lancaster*** District. > 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 ***James Blackmon*** 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 ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March instant*** [struck: next], to answer to ***Reuben Patterson of a plea that he render to him the sum of [Seventy] nine dollars sixteen cents which to him he owes & from him unjustly detains*** to ***his*** 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 John McKenzie Esqr Clerk of the court of Common pleas for Lancaster District*** [struck: WITNESS, the Honorable ... Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State,] at ***Lancaster*** Court-House, the ***fourteenth*** [struck: Monday after the fourth Monday in] ***day of March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty ***seven*** and in the ***fifty first*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > ***Williams & Clinton*** Pl[ainti]ffs Att[orne]y > [Left margin:] Jno McKenzie ccpl **PDF p. 7 - Back of the original writ** > [Left panel:] > Entered in my office > 15th March 1827 > John Sims Sh > > I have by my special lawful deputy [struck: left a] [Bailey H. Ingram? / Inspire?] left a copy of this writ at the house of the defendant 17 March 1827 > 10 miles John Sims Sh > > [Center panel:] > 216 > Lancaster > Reuben Patterson > vs } Writ in debt > Jas Blackmon Jr > $200 > Williams & Clinton > Pff atys > > Original > > Sims [R?] > [illegible pencil notes] --- **PDF p. 8 - Judgment** > And now at this day viz, on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in October in the year of our Lord One thousand eight hundred & twenty seven at the court of Com. pleas holden at Lancaster Court House in the State & district aforesaid comes the said [struck: Joseph] Reuben by his attorneys aforesaid & prays that the said James may answer his declaration aforesaid, & the said James, although solemnly called comes not, but makes default whereby the said [struck: Reuben] remains thereof against him undefended, wherefore the said Reuben ought to recover his damages aforesaid, but because it is unknown what those damages are, & because the demand of the said Reuben is a liquidated demand, according to the act of the Genl Assembly, the same is on motion only to the Court, referred to the clerk thereof to assess the interest & principal due thereon, & the clerk upon such reference finds the amount of [struck: interest] & principal to be [Seventy] nine dollars 16/100 with interest from the 2d July 1824. > Therefore it is considered by the said Court that the said Reuben do recover against the said James the said sum with interest so assessed by the Clerk for his damages as aforesaid, as also the sum of twenty three dollars & twenty three cents for his costs & charges by him expended in & about the prosecution of his suit in this behalf & to him by the said Court with his assent adjudged amounting in the whole to One hundred & two dollars & thirty nine cents & be the said James in mercy &c. > > [Left margin, written vertically:] Judgt. [entd] up & signed 3d Decr 1827 > Jno McKenzie clk --- **PDF p. 9 - Plaintiff's attorney's bill (docket of the judgment)** > Reuben Patterson > vs } Judgt > Jas Blackmon Jr > > Williams & Clinton > Pltf attys > > Writ - 4.28 > Decl - 5.36 > Judgt - 3.21 > Ex[ecution] - 1.29 > Sp[ecial] writ - 1.07 > $15.21