# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 589

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Jane Johnson, Administratrix of John Johnson, v. James (Jr.) & Joel Blackman |
| **Dates** | 1822-1823 |
| **Roll** | Box 16, Roll 589 |
| **Pages in source images** | 12 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 589 (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 589 - Johnson vs Blackmon.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%20589%20-%20Johnson%20vs%20Blackmon.pdf), 12 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.

**Notes on these images:**

- Pp. 2 and 3 are two photos of the same page, and so are pp. 11 and 12.

## Transcription

**PDF p. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration**

> [Left panel:]
> Assessment - $109.71
> Int[erest] on $106 from 1st April 1823
> Attorneys - $15.57
> Clks - 6.40
> Shffs - 2.30 = 24.27
>              $133.98
>
> [Right panel:]
> Lancaster
> Roll [struck: 22] 10
> B16 R 589
> Jane Johnson
> adm[inistratri]x
>    v          } Decl in
> James Blackmon  } Case
> Joel Blackmon   } $200
>
> Williams & Clinton Plffs attys
>
> Filed 21st February 1823
> Ordered for Judgt same day
> Assessed [?]
> Recorded
>
> I assess the damages due to the plaintiff in this case to One hundred and nine dollars and twenty one [sic; seventy one] cents. One hundred and six dollars of which to bear interest from the first day of April 1823 till paid -
>     Wm McKenna ccpl
>
> Judgt entered up & Execution issued 3rd May 1823

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**PDF pp. 2-3 - Declaration**

> State of South Carolina } In the Common pleas
> Lancaster District } To wit -
> James otherwise called Jas. Blackman and Joel Blackmon were attached to answer to Jane Johnson Administratrix of [struck: ...] the goods & Estate of John Johnson deceased of a plea of trespass on the case and so forth also for certain promises & assumptions by the said James & Joel to the said Jane made and not performed to her damage two hundred dollars - Whereupon the said Jane by Williams & Clinton her attornies complains for that the said James & Joel, on the first day of January in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty two at Lancaster Court House in the State & district aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court made their certain note in writing commonly called a promissory note, subscribed with their own hands, bearing date the day & year above written by which said note the said James & Joel jointly and severally promised to pay to the said Jane the sum of One hundred and six dollars, nine months after the date of the said note, for value received of her. By reason whereof and by force of the statute in such case made and provided and made of force in this State, the said James & Joel became liable to pay the said sum of money & being so liable in consideration thereof afterwards, to wit, on the day & year last aforesaid, at Lancaster Court House aforesaid, the said James & Joel promised well & truly to pay the said sum of money when they should be thereunto afterwards requested, yet the said James & Joel although often requested hath not paid the said sum of money to her damage two hundred dollars & therefore she brings suit &c.
>                                 Williams & Clinton
>                                 Pff attys

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**PDF p. 8 - The promissory note**

> $106.    Nine months after date we or either of us prom[i]se to pay Jane Johnson adm[inistratri]x of John Johnson deceased or order One hundred & six Dollars value rec'd. January 1st 1822
> William C Johnson [witness]        Jas. Blakmon
>                                     Joel Blackman
>
> [Margin figures:] $106 / 7.42 / 3.71 / 109.71

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**PDF p. 6 - Original writ (attachment), 1822 (printed form: "[COPY WRIT.]"; Printed at the Telescope Press)**

> 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 James otherwise Jas. Blackman & Joel Blackmon*** wheresoever ***they*** may be found within your and each of your respective districts, so that you compel ***them*** 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 ***October*** next, to answer to ***Jane Johnson Administratrix of the goods & Estate of John Johnson deceased of a plea of trespass on the case and so forth also for certain promises and assumptions by the said James & Joel to the said Jane made and not performed to her 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 ELIHU HALL BAY, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said state, at ***Lancaster*** Court-house, on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty ***two*** and in the forty ***sixth*** year of the sovereignty and independence of the United States of America.
>                                 ***Williams & Clinton*** Plaintiff's Attorney.
> [Left margin:] Wm McKenna clk

**PDF p. 7 - Back of the original writ**

> [Left panel:]
> Entered in my office
> 17 Oct 1822
>     Perry Shff
>
> Return proved before
>     Wm McKenna ccpl
>
> [Center panel:]
> 222
> Lancaster
> Jane Johnson adm[inistratri]x
>    v          } Writ in
> James Blackmon  } Case
> Joel Blackmon   } $200
> Williams & Clinton
>
> Original
>
> I accept the service of this writ to fall term 1822 and at the same time receive a copy
>     Jas. Blackmon Jr
>
> [Right panel, written vertically:]
> I appoint [H.? / R.?] Costan[?] [struck: ...] special deputy to serve this writ 19 Oct 1822
>     Perry Shff
> Ser[ved] by my deputy 19 Oct 1822
>     Perry Shff

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**PDF p. 4 - Judgment**

> And now at this day to wit, the first monday after the fourth monday in March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty three to which day the said James & Joel Defendants had leave to answer to the aforesaid declaration, before the justices of the Common pleas at a Court to be held at Lancaster Court the said Jane by her attornies aforesaid and pray that the said defendants may answer to the declaration aforesaid, & though solemnly called they come not nor say anything in bar or preclusion of the aforesaid action, but makes default, whereupon she remains against them thereof undefended, whereupon she ought to have her damages sustained by reason of the premises, & because the same is a liquidated demand according to the act of the Genl. Assembly &c. it becomes unnecessary to issue a writ of enquiry, but only on motion to the court to refer the same to the Clerk thereof to ascertain the amount due & the same being so referred, the said Clerk namely William McKenna finds the amount of the principal & interest to be One hundred & nine dollars seventy one cents - Whereupon it is considered that she do recover against the said defendants the said sum so found, and also the sum of Twenty four dollars & Forty seven [sic; twenty seven] cents for her costs & charges by her expended in & about prosecuting her suit in this behalf & to her with their assent by the said Court adjudged, amounting in the whole to one hundred and thirty three dollars & Ninety eight cents & be the said Defendants in mercy &c.
>
> [Left margin, written vertically:] Judgment entered up and signed 3d May 1823
>             Wm McKenna ccpl

**PDF p. 5 - Plaintiff's attorneys' bill (docket of the judgment)**

> Atty's Bill
> Writ - 4.28
> Decl - 5.31
> Judg - 3.31
> Ex[ecution] - 1.29
> Ex copy - .31
> Sub[poena] writ - 1.07
>         $15.57
>
> Jane Johnson adm[inistratri]x
>    v          } Judt
> James Blackman
> Joel Blackman
>
> Williams & Clinton
> Pff atty

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**PDF p. 9 - Writ of fieri facias (printed form: "[FI. FA. IN DEBT.]"; Printed at the Telescope Press)**

> 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 Chattels, Houses, Lands and other Hereditaments and Real Estates of ***James & Joel Blackman you cause to be levied the sum of One hundred and nine dollars Seventy one cents & the interest on one hundred & six dollars from 1 Apl 1823 until this Ex[ecution] is satisfied which Jane Johnston*** [struck: you cause to be levied, a certain Debt of which] in the Court of Common Pleas, before the Judges of the said State, at ***Lancaster*** lately recovered against the said ***James & Joel for damages for certain promises &c. made to her & not performed*** AND ALSO the sum of ***Twenty four*** dollars ***and twenty seven*** cents, [struck: awarded to the said ... for ... damages, which ... sustained, as well by reason of the detention of the said Debt,] as for ***her*** Costs and Charges by ***her*** expended in and about prosecuting ***her*** Suit in that behalf, whereof the said ***James & Joel are*** 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 ***October*** next, to render to the said ***Jane*** [struck: Debt and] Damages aforesaid ***for her costs & charges***. 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, on the ***first*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty ***three*** and in the forty ***seventh*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America.
>                                 ***Williams & Clinton*** Pff atty
> [Left margin:] Wm McKenna clk

**PDF p. 10 - Back of the fi. fa. (sheriff's levy)**

> [Left panel:]
> Entered in my office
> 10 May 1823
>     Perry Shff
>
> Levied on the Plantation whereon the Defendant James Blackman resides containing seven hundred & fifty acres more or less May 31st 1823
>     Jno McKenzie for
>     Dy Shff
>
> Satisfied
>
> [Center panel:]
> 1183
> Lancaster
> Jane Johnston
>    v          } Fi Fa
> James Blackman  } in
> Joel Blackman   } Ass[umpsi]t
>
> Williams & Clinton
>
> Ass[essed] $109.71
> Int[erest] on $106 from 1 Apl 1823
> Atty - 15.57
> Clk - 6.40
> Shff - 2.30
>
> $8.55
> Wait until the first day of July - Clinton

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**PDF pp. 11-12 - Statement of account settling four judgments**

> Jane Johnson
>    v          } Assessment - $109.71
> James Blackmon &  } Int on $106 fr[om] 1st April till 1st Sept 1823 - 2.98
> Joel Blackmon     }        $112.69
>
> Jane Johnson
>    v          } Decree - $39.12
> James Blackmon &  } Int on $37.79 fr[om] 1st Apl to 1st Sept 1823 - 1.08    40.20
> Daniel Blackmon   }
>
> The same
>    v          } Decree - 59.51
> James Blackmon &  } Int on 57.50 fr[om] 1st Apl to 1st Sept 1823 - 1.67    $61.18
> D[aniel? / Burrel?] Blackmon }
>
> The same
>    v          } Decree - 32.86
> Magnus Lyles &    } Int on $31.75 fr[om] 1st Apl till 1st Sept 1823 - .89    33.75
> James Blackmon    }
>                                                 $247.82
>     paid A. Perry - $160
>      "  M. Clinton - 20                         180
>                                                  67.82
> Int on $67.82 fr[om] 1st Sept 1823 till 1st Novr 1823    .40
>                                                 $68.22

*[The first name in the third pair is written like the "Daniel" above it but is not fully clear. A. Perry was the sheriff, and M. Clinton was of the plaintiff's attorneys, Williams & Clinton.]*