# Lancaster County, SC - Court of Common Pleas - Judgment Roll 960

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|---|---|
| **Case** | Lucy Clark & John Clark, Administrators of Daniel Clark, deceased, v. Richard Wright |
| **Dates** | 1820-1822 |
| **Roll** | Box 25, Roll 960 |
| **Pages in source images** | 8 |

## Source

Lancaster County (formerly Lancaster District), South Carolina, Court of Common Pleas, Judgment Roll 960 (Box 25). Original records held by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, SC. Transcribed from photographs of the original judgment roll (image files: folder [960](960/), 8 photographs).

## 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.
- "Img." numbers refer to the photographs in the roll's image folder, in file-name order, which is not always the order the papers were written in.

**Notes on these images:**

- Imgs. 1, 2, 3 and 7 were photographed sideways or upside down and were rotated for reading.
- Most sheets are water-stained; the stains have faded the ink in places.
- Img. 5 is a printed "Copy Writ" form whose handwritten fill-ins have faded almost completely; Img. 6 is its back, on which only a few faint words show. They are described rather than transcribed.

## Transcription

**Img. 1 - Docket cover of the declaration**

> [Right panel:]
> N [?] # [struck: 78] 31
> Lancaster
> B25 R 960
> (73)
>
> Admrs of Danl. Clark Decd
>    v } in Case
> Richard Wright
>          $1000.
>
> Williams & Clinton
> Pltff atty
>
> Filed 26th February 1822
> Ordered for Judgement same day
>
> Referred
>
> Recorded
>
> I assess the Damages due to the plaintiffs in this case to two hundred and twenty five dollars & Eighty nine cents One hundred and Eighty seven dollars and Ninety four cents of which to bear Interest from the first of April last till paid
>     Wm. McKenna C.C.P.
>
> Judgement Entered up and Execution Issued 16 June 1822
>
> Ent.
>
> [Left panel:]
> Assessment - $225.89
> Interest on $187.94 from 1 April 1822 till pd.
>
> Attorney - $15.31
> Clerk - 6.40     $21.71
>                  $247.60

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**Img. 2 - Declaration**

> State of South Carolina } In the Common pleas
> Lancaster District } to wit
>
> Richard Wright was attached to answer to Lucy Clark and John Clark Administrators of all and singular the goods and Chattles rights and credits of Daniel Clark Deceased of a plea of trespass on the Case and so forth, also for certain promises and assumptions by the said Richard to the said Daniel in his lifetime made and not performed, to their damage one thousand dollars whereupon the said Administrators by Williams & Clinton their attorneys Complains for that the said Richard on the twenty third day of March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty at Lancaster Court House in the State and District aforesaid, and within the jurisdiction of this Honorable Court, made his certain note in writing of that date subscribed with his own hand, by which said note, on or before the third day of November then next ensuing the date thereof the said Richard promised to pay the said Daniel the sum of four hundred and fourteen dollars twenty eight cents for value received of him the said Daniel by reason whereof and by force of the Statute in such case made and provided and made of force in this State, the said Richard 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 Richard then & there faithfully promised to pay the said sum of money to the said Daniel when he should be thereunto afterwards requested - yet the said Richard not at all regarding his said promises and undertakings in manner above made although often requested hath not paid the same or any part thereof except the sum of two hundred and twenty six dollars 34 3/4/100, and now refuses to pay further, to the damage of the said Administrators one thousand dollars, whereupon they bring suit &c.
>
>     Williams & Clinton
>     Pff atty

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**Img. 8 - The original promissory note**

> On or before the third of Nov[embe]r
> I promise to pay Daniel Clark
> the sum of four hundred and
> fourteen Dollars and twenty eight
> Cents for value rec[eive]d 23 [?]
> March 1820          Richard Wright
> John Clark [?]
>
> [Calculations in the margin:]
> 414 28
> 226 34
> 187 94
>
> 414 28 / 7 / 2899 96 / 17 08 / 4 46 07 / 4 14 28 / $4 60 35 / $2 34 46 [?] / $2 25 89
> 14/2900 / 207 1/4 [?]
> 14 50 / 2 42 / 17 08

*[The note is folded and faded; the reading of the date and of the witness's name (written under the signature) is uncertain.]*

**Img. 7 - Back of the note (payments)**

> Received of the within note one hundred and fifty dollars
> Sept 23 1821 [?]
>
> R[eceive]d of the within note seventy six [?] Dollars & thirty four & 3/4 cents
>
> [Calculations:]
> 2 26 34     150
> 7           76 34 3/4
> 15 84 38    2 26 34 3/4
> 7 92 [?]
> 2 26 34
> 2 34 46

*[The payments, $150 and $76.34 3/4, make the $226.34 3/4 credited in the declaration.]*

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**Img. 3 - Judgment**

> [Of] this day to wit, at Lancaster Court House, the first Monday after the fourth Monday in March in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty two, to which time the said Richard had leave to answer to the declaration aforesaid of them the said Administrators, and the said Richard although solemnly called comes [struck: illegible] not, whereupon the said Administrators remains thereof undefended against him - & Because the demand against him is a liquidated demand within the meaning of the act of the Gen[era]l Assembly it becomes unnecessary to execute a writ of enquiry but on motion the same to be referred to the Clerk of court to assess what damages the said Administrators hath sustained, & the same on motion being referred to the Clerk Wm. McKenna, he finds the amount of the Interest & Principle to be two hundred & [struck: illegible] twenty five dollars 89 cents being the damages complained of. It is therefore considered by the said Court now here, that the said Administrators do recover against the said Richard the said sum so assessed by the Clerk aforesaid and also the sum of Twenty One dollars & Seventy One cents for their costs & charges by them expended in and about the prosecuting them [sic] in this behalf to them with his assent adjudged, amounting in the whole to Two hundred & forty seven Dollars & Sixty cents & be the said Richard in Mercy & so forth -
>
> [Left margin, written vertically:] Judgement Entered up and Execution Signed June 16th 1822
>     Wm. McKenna C.C.P.

**Img. 4 - Back of the judgment (attorney's fee)**

> Admrs of D. Clarke
>    v } Judgt.
> Richard Wright
>
> Atty Fee
> Writ - 4.28
> Decl. - 5.35
> Judg. - 3.32
> Ex. Cost - 1.07
> Ex. - 1.29
>          15.31

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**Img. 5 - Copy writ (printed form: "Copy Writ - Printed by John Cambridge, Camden")**

> 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, to ***[attach the body of] Richard Wright*** 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 [illegible] ...
>
> WITNESS the Honorable Elihu Hall Bay, Esquire, Senior Associate Judge of the said State at [illegible] ...
>
> [Left margin:] Wm. McKenna Clk

*[The fill-ins on this form have faded almost entirely; only the defendant's name, a few words of the cause ("for certain promises and assumptions ...") and the clerk's signature can be made out.]*

**Img. 6 - Back of the copy writ**

*[Only faint traces of an endorsement show; "Lancaster" and "Daniel Clark" can be made out, written upside down.]*