# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 593

| | |
|---|---|
| **Case** | A. Caile v. James Blackman Jr. |
| **Dates** | 1829 |
| **Roll** | Box 16, Roll 593 |
| **Pages in source images** | 6 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 593 (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 593 - Caile vs Blackman.pdf](Judgment%20Roll%20593%20-%20Caile%20vs%20Blackman.pdf), 6 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:]
> 5 Roll 10 [struck: 16]
> Lancaster
> B16 R 593
> A. Caile
>    v          } Decl in
> Jas. Blackman  } Debt
> Junr
>                 $300
> Clinton Pff atty
>
> I confess Judgment in the above case for one hundred and fifty three dollars and forty two cents from the 17 day of Jany 1829. March 23rd 1829
>     Jas. Blackmon
>
> Fi Fa iss[ue]d 1 May 1829
>
> Recorded in Book F, page 438.
>     Jn O Adams Clerk
>
> [Right panel:]
> Con[fession] - $153.42
> Int fr[om] 17 Jany 1829
> Atty - $11
> Ck - 4    $15 -

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**PDF p. 2 - Declaration**

> State of South Carolina }
> Lancaster District } In the Common pleas
> James Blackman was attached to answer to A. Caile of a plea of debt. Whereupon the said A. Caile by Clinton his attorney complains for that the said James at Lancaster Court house in the State & District aforesaid & within the jurisdiction of this honorable Court on the seventeenth day of January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & twenty nine by his writing obligatory of that date sealed with his seal here in Court to be produced bound & acknowledged himself to be indebted to the said A. Caile in the sum of one hundred and fifty three dollars & forty two cents to be paid one & three days after the date thereof as aforesaid, yet although the one & three days have long since elapsed & since then the said [struck: A. Caile] James has been often requested by the said A. Caile to render the said sums 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 three hundred dollars and therefore he brings suit &c.
>                                 Clinton Pff atty

*["One & three days" suggests the $153.42 may have been made up of more than one note or sum.]*

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**PDF p. 6 - 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 Blackman Jur*** 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 instant*** [struck: next], to answer to ***A. Caill of a plea*** [struck: of debt] ***that he render to him the sum of one hundred & fifty three dollars & 42 cents which to him he owes & from him unjustly detains to his damage three hundred dollars*** [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].
> 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 ***23d*** day of ***March*** 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. 5 - Back of the writ**

> [Left panel:]
> Notes taken out to Sue Howell [?]
> 2[4?] Aug 183[?]
>
> [Center panel:]
> Lancaster
> A. Caile
>    vs          } Writ in
> Jas. Blackman  } Debt
> Junr
>                 $300
> Clinton Pff atty
>
> Original
>
> I accept the service of this writ to Spring term 1829
>     Jas. Blackmon
>
> [Printed notice to the defendant, unfilled and crossed out.]

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**PDF p. 4 - 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 by his attorney aforesaid, and the said James comes & says he cannot deny the cause of action of him the said A. Coil, nor but that he hath sustained damages by reason of the premises to one hundred and fifty three dollars 42/100 with Int[erest] from the 17th of Jany 1829***
> [The printed default-and-referral text that follows is cancelled with diagonal strokes.] ... besides ***his*** costs and charges by ***him*** expended in and about prosecuting ***his*** suit in this behalf, [struck: to]
> 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. 3 - Plaintiff's attorney's bill (docket of the judgment)**

> A. Cail
>    v          } Judgt
> Jas. Blackmon
>
> Clinton Pff atty
>
> Atty's Bill
> Writ - 4.00
> Decl - 5.00
> Judgt &c - 3.00
>         $12.00