# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 590 | | | |---|---| | **Case** | A. Caile v. James Blackman Jr. | | **Dates** | 1828-1829 | | **Roll** | Box 16, Roll 590 | | **Pages in source images** | 8 | ## Source Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 590 (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 590 - Caile vs Blackmon.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%20590%20-%20Caile%20vs%20Blackmon.pdf), 8 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 - Docket cover of the declaration, with the confession** > [Left panel:] > Con[fession] - $81.54 > Int fr[om] 1 Jany 1828 > Atty - 11 - > Ck - 4 - > Shf - [blank] 15 - > $96.54 > > [Right panel:] > 4 Roll 10 [struck: 15] > Lancaster > B16 R 590 > A. Caile > v } Decl in > Jas. Blackman Jr } Debt > $200 > Clinton Pff atty > > I confess Judgment in the above case for eighty one dollars & fifty four cents with Int[erest] on same from first of January 1828. March 23rd 1829 > Jas. Blackmon Jr > > Recorded in Book F, page 437. > Jn O Adams Clerk > > Fi fa iss[ue]d 1 May 1829 --- **PDF p. 2 - Declaration, with a copy of the note** > State of South Carolina } > Lancaster District } In the Common pleas > James Blackman was attached to answer to A. Caile of a plea of [struck: the debt] debt. Whereupon the said A. Caile by Clinton his attorney complains for that the said James on the [struck: fifteenth] twelfth day of September one thousand 1828 at Lancaster Court house in the State & District aforesaid and within the jurisdiction of this honorable Court by his [struck: certain note in writing] writing obligatory of that date sealed with his seal and here in Court to be produced bound & acknowledged himself to be indebted to the said A. Caile in the sum of one hundred & three dollars & forty two cents [sic] to be paid three days after the date thereof as aforesaid. Yet although the three days have long since elapsed, and since then the said James hath been often requested by the said A. Caile to render the said sum of money in the said writing obligatory mentioned, the said James hath always refused to do so, and still continues to refuse to the damage of the said A. Caile two hundred dollars & therefore he brings suit &c. > Clinton Pff atty > > (Copy writing obligatory) > $81.54 Three days after date I promise to pay A. Cail or order the sum of Eighty one dollars & 54/100 with Interest from the first of January last for value Rec'd witness my hand and seal this 12th day of September 1828 > Jas. Blackmon (Seal) --- **PDF p. 6 - The original note** > $81.54 - Three days after date I promise to pay A. Coil or order the sum of Eighty one dollars & 54/100 with Interest from the first of January last for Value Rec'd witness my hand and seal this the 12th day of September 1828 > Jas. Blackmon (Seal) **PDF p. 5 - Back of the note** > Confession > 1828 > Jas. Blackman's note $81.54 --- **PDF p. 4 - Original writ (attachment), 1829 (printed form: "Copy Writ" - Camden 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 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 ***fourth*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** next, to answer to ***A. Coil of a plea that he render to him the sum of Eighty one dollars 54/100 which to him he owes & from him detains*** [struck: of a Plea of trespass on the case and so forth; also for certain promises and assumptions by the said ... to the said ... made and not performed;] to the damage of the said ***A. Coil 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 Adams*** Esquire, Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for ***Lancaster*** District, the ***29th*** day of ***January*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-***nine*** and in the ***fifty third*** year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. > ***Clinton*** Plaintiff's Attorney. **PDF p. 3 - Back of the writ** > Lancaster > A. Caile > vs } Writ in > Jas. Blackman } Debt > Junr > $200 > Clinton Pff atty > > Original > > I accept the service of Spring term 1829 > Jas. Blackmon Jr > > [Printed notice to the defendant, unfilled and crossed out.] --- **PDF p. 8 - Judgment by confession (printed form: "Judg. on Writ of Enq. Damag. Ass'd. by Clerk" - Camden Press, adapted)** > ***Spring*** Term, 182***9*** > AND now at this day, to wit, the ***fourth*** Monday after the fourth Monday in ***March*** in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and ***twenty nine*** come[s] the said ***A. Coil*** the Plaintiff by ***his*** Attorney aforesaid, and [struck: pray that] the said ***Jas. Blackmon comes & says he cannot deny the cause of action of the said*** [struck: the Defendant, to the declaration of] ***A. Coil nor but that he hath sustained*** [struck: the said Plaintiff may answer; and the said Defendant being solemnly called, come not, but make default, whereby the said Plaintiff remain thereof against undefended. Wherefore it is considered by the Court now here, that the said Plaintiff ought to recover against the said Defendant the damages by sustained by reason of the premises: But because it is unknown to the Court what those damages are:] ***to Eighty one dollars 54/100 with Int[erest] from 1 Jany 1828*** [struck: It is therefore Ordered, That the same be referred to the Clerk of the said Court, to ascertain the sum actually due by the said Defendant to the said Plaintiff pursuant to the direction of the Act of the General Assembly of the said State, in such case made and provided; and the said Clerk thereupon having ascertained the same, and assessed the Damages of the said Plaintiff by reason of the premises; besides costs and charges by expended in and about prosecuting suit in this behalf, to] ***over & above his costs & charges by him expended in & about prosecuting his suit in this behalf.*** > Therefore, it is considered by the Court now here, that the said Plaintiff do recover against the said Defendant the damages so ***confessed*** [struck: ascertained and assessed] as aforesaid; and also ***fifteen Dollars*** for ***his*** costs and charges aforesaid, to ***him*** by the Court now here, with ***his*** assent adjudged; which said damages, costs and charges, in the whole amount to [blank] and be the said defendant in mercy, and so forth. > > [Left margin, written vertically:] Judt ent[ere]d up & signed 1 May 1829 > Jn O Adams Clerk **PDF p. 7 - Plaintiff's attorney's bill (docket of the judgment)** > A. Cail > vs } Judgt > Jas. Blackmon > > Clinton Pff atty > > Atty's Bill > Writ - 4.00 > Decl - 5.00 > Judgt &c - 3.00 > $12.00