Minutes to the court of
Pleas and Quarter Sessions
By Ginger Christmas-Beattie
1780
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Page 51 Wednesday November 16 th
Then the Court adjourned until 10 o'clock tomorrow.
Thursday morning the Court met according to adjournment.
Present: William Johnson
, Philemon Hawkins
, Young McLemore
, John Macon
, and Joseph Hawkins
, Esquires.
Ordered that a baseborn boy, by the name of Moses Acre
, aged nine years old be bound to Jethro Sumner
, Esquire, until he attain to the age of twenty-one years, his said master, to learn him letters and writing and the business of husbandry.
Ordered that Duke Bennett
, a baseborn child born of the body of Mary Bennett
, being 8 years old the ninth day of May next, to be bound to Reuben Bennett
until he attain to the age of twenty-0ne years, his said master to learn him to read, write and the planter business.
Ordered that John Macon
, Esquire, be Overseer of the road from Mr. Ransom's mill
pond to Well's Branch
, and that he clear and keep the same in repair with the hands of Young McLemore
, Amey Ransom
, Benjamin Kimbell
, Joseph Martin
and his own hands.
Ordered that Gideon Hunt Macon
be Overseer of the road from Solomon Alston
's to Mr. Ransom's mill
pond and that he keep the same in repair with the usual hands.
Ordered that the Collector pay Thomas Machen
, Clerk of this Court, the sum of two hundred pounds for extra services performed by him as clerk.
Page 52 Wednesday November 16 th
An account current of the Estate of Henry Foote
, deceased, was exhibited into Court by Henry Shearin
and wife, Executors of the said deceased, and the same being examined by the Court was allowed and ordered to be recorded.
Ordered that it be recommended to the General Assembly in favor of William Wilson
, who has for want of knowledge in the laws, an invalid slave which is interlay useless, the tax of which slave amounted to fifty pounds.
Ordered that John Macon
and William House
procession all the land in Capt. Fussell's District
according to law.
Ordered that Robert Jones
and Green Duke
procession all the land in Capt. Wren's District
according to law.
Ordered that Henry Shearin
and Ludson Worsham
procession all the lands in Capt. Strudivant's District
according to law.
Ordered that Thomas Harton
and William Wilson
procession all the lands in Capt. Colclough's District
according to law.
Ordered that Thomas Christmas
and Marmaduke Johnson
procession all the lands in Capt. William Christmas
' District according to law.
Ordered that John Potter
and Matthew Wood
procession all the lands in Capt. Twitty's District
according to law.
Ordered that Joseph Shearin
and Daniel Sledge
procession all the lands in Capt. Clanton's District
on the south side of Roanoke River
, and that John White
and George Webb
do procession all the lands in the said Clanton's District north of said river according to law.
Ordered that Nathaniel Harris
and Sterling Harris
procession all the lands in the upper of Capt. Harris' District
according to law.
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Ordered that William Burrow
and John Newell
procession all the lands in the lower part of Capt. Harris' District
according to law.
Ordered that William Powell
and William Cooper
procession all the lands in Capt. Weathers' District
according to law.
Ordered that William Williams
and Richard Ward
procession all the lands in Capt. Cox's District
according to law.
Ordered that the Sheriff summon Thomas Clack
, Miles Bobbitt
, John Duke
, Thomas Green
, James Johnson
, Solomon Williams
, Samuel Williams
, Willoughby Tillery
, Daniel Ball
, John Christmas
, William Darnal
, Joseph Mangom
, William Land
, John Dinkins
, Joseph Darnal
, John Cauthorn
, Dawson Vanlandigham
, John Ellington
, Twitty Russell
, Henry Fitts
, John Hicks
, Richard Towns
, John Moseley
, Francis Thornton
, Anthony Haynes
, Eldrige Clack
, Thomas Miller
Jr., James Nicholson
Jr., Urbane Nicholson
, and Obed Green
, to appear at next Court as Jury.
Ordered that William Wilson
be Overseer of the road from Thomas Miller
's to Hub Quarter Creek
in the room of Aaron Shearin
, and ordered that he keep the same in repair with the hands usually working thereon.
Ordered that Philemon Hawkins
, Young McLemore
, and John Macon
, Esquires, or any two of them audit and adjust the accounts of Thomas Person
, Administrator to Benjamin Person
, deceased, also Guardian to Benjamin Brown Person
, deceased, and report the same to the Court.
Ordered that Thomas Merritt
, Reuben Bennett
be recommended to the General Assembly as being proper objects to be relieved from paying public taxes.
Then the Court adjourned until Court in course.
Signed: William Johnson
, Philemon Hawkins
, John Macon
, Daniel Sledge
, John Hawkins
, and Young McLemore
.
Page 54 Wednesday November 2 nd
At a Court called and held at Warren Courthouse in Warrenton on the 2 nd day of November 1780 for
the trial of London,
a Negro slave, belonging to Christopher Robertson
, being brought before the Court by a warrant from under the hand of Young McLemore
, Esquire, being accused of stealing from James Ball Twenty-five
dollars. The said Negro London being arraigned pleaded not guilty, the said James Ball
and Thomas Christmas
. Evidence for the state being sworn and examined against the prisoner. The Court here are of opinion
that the said Negro London is not guilty of the crime wherewith he stand charged and that he be hence discharged and that the prosecutor pay fees.
Signed: Philemon Hawkins JP, Young McLemore JP, Benjamin Ward JP, Adkins McLemore JP, and William Robins , John Hawkins , and Thomas Christmas , Freeholders.