North Carolina Hillsborough District
At a Superior Court of Justice begun and held for the district aforesaid at the Court house in Hillsborough on Saturday the 22nd day of September, 1770.
Adam Whitsett & Henry Whitsett appeared in open court & took the oaths prescribed by Parliament for Naturalization.
Court adjourned till Monday 10 o'clock.
Monday 24th
Court met pursuant to adjournment,
The Court appointed Henry Pendleton Esq, Attorney for the Crown.
Samuel Smith, who was last term fined nisi etc. for not appearing last term as a juror, was heard and excused.
Several persons stiling themselves Regulators assembled together in the Court Yard under the conduct of Harmon Husbands, James Hunter, Rednap Howell, William Butler, Samuel Devinney, & many others insulted some of the Gentlemen of the Bar, & in a violent manner went into the Court house, and forcibly carried out some of the attorneys, and in a cruel manner beat them. They then insisted that the Judge should proceed to the Tryal of their Leaders, who had been indicted at a former Court, and that the Jury should be taken out of their party.
Therefore the Judge finding it impossible to proceed with honor to himself and Justice to his Country, adjourned the Court till tomorrow morning 10 o'clock, and took the advantage of the night & made his escape, and the Court adjourned to Court in Course.
1 |
John McMund vs. William Courtney |
2 C F 4 |
General Issue |
Damn'd Rogues |
2 |
John Childs vs. Richard Thompson |
Case 5 |
Refd &c Vide Mem Book |
You keep that to yourselves to rogue everybody |
3 |
John Williams Esq vs. Robert Mitchel |
Case 6 |
General Issue |
Pay costs and be put in the stocks plaintiffs |
4 |
William Brown vs. John Brown |
Detinue 7 |
General Issue |
A shame for name's sake |
5 |
Edmund Fanning vs. James Bynum |
Slander 8 |
Jury find the defendant Guilty. Assessed £5 damages & 6s cost Motion and Arrest |
We were certain of that but no—[torn] |
vs. George McGoon |
Case 12 |
Plea to be entered narrative to be filed conditions performed & issue |
Another Plea—entered |
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7 |
Benjamin Drummond vs. John Lambert |
Slander 13 |
Justification—Error |
Plaintiff pays cost |
W 8 P G |
Daniel Williams vs. John Williams |
Case 15 |
General Issue |
The Elect pays cost |
9 |
Peter Noag vs. Edmund Fanning |
Appeal 16 |
App. by Consent |
Fanning must pay |
10 |
Edmund Fanning vs. Abraham Smith |
Trover A B. |
Judgment by default |
Fanning pays costs but loses nothing |
11 W |
Ezekial Brasfield vs. Phillip— |
Case 19 |
General Issue |
Death by the law for |
12 Hoo |
Isaiah Hogan vs. Hermon Husbands |
Case 21 |
General Issue |
Hogan pays & be damned |
F 13 |
Ezekial Brumfield vs. James Ferrel |
Slander 22 |
Not guilty & Justification |
Nonsense let them agree for Ferrell has gone Hellward |
W 14 N |
Michael Wilson vs. David Harris |
T. A. B. 23 |
Plea in abatement filed general Demd Joinder plea over. Not guilty with leave |
All Harris's are Rogues |
W 15 |
John Edwards vs. Phillip Edwards |
Case 24 |
Non assumpsit
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Damned shame |
McG 16 |
Thomas Tramnell vs. William Dunnigan |
Case 29 |
Refd Rule set aside for Trial next Court |
Dunnigan pays |
McG 17 |
Same vs.— |
T. A. B. |
Same rule |
Do |
W 36 F |
Thomas James vs. Dennis McCaron |
T V A R 22 |
Not guilty with leave |
Agreed for £2 7 stay execution to Inf Court anything for money Fees paid by Johnston & Shackston to Jno Cook |
F 55 Mo |
Thomas Cain vs. John Pearson |
T. V. A. 44 |
Not guilty with leave. Damned roguery |
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Mo 56 F |
Thomas Richardson vs. Robinson York |
Case &c 46 |
General Issue by mistake. General issue not but Plea of abatement |
Plaintiff pays all and gets his body scourged for Blasphemy |
F 57 M |
Mary Humphries vs. Phillip Jackson Junr
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T. A. B. 47 |
Not Guilty with leave |
Judgment by Default |
F 59 M |
Mary Humphries vs. Phillip Jackson Junr
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J. A. B. 52 |
Not guilty with leave |
Judgment by default the money must come to officers |
W 60 Ho |
Hermon Husband vs. Joseph Mattocks |
63 |
Ex in the hands of Francis Nash and he served a Garnishee. Garnishee sworn saith he has in his hands £54. 4s. 9d. Judgment by default |
—Right enough |
F 61 Mc |
Nathaniel Walton vs. Jeremiah Horton |
Ejectment 64 |
The Defendants common Rule &c not Guilty |
Discontinued |
F 62 M |
Charles Rust Eaton vs. Fernand Laws |
Case 65 |
General issue with leave |
Plaintiff pays cost |
F 63 Hoo |
Robert Reid & Co. vs. Nancy Husbands |
Debt 71 |
Non est factum
|
Plaintiff pays cost |
W 64 |
Abner Nash vs. John Rooker |
Case 74 |
Judgment by default |
Nash gets nothing |
M 65 N |
Abraham Moore vs. Richard Benjamin Bell |
Debt 80 |
Payment—Replication &c issue |
Plaintiff pays cost |
M 66 J L |
Young Miller & Company vs. Armistides Administrators |
Case 81 |
Non assumpsit and plene administratrit. Replication and issue |
Plaintiff pays cost |
F 67 H |
Valentine Braswell vs. Duncan McNeal, Admr. of Hector McNeal |
Case 86 |
Declaration plea to be filed |
File it & be darned |
F 68 |
Sales Brown vs. William Lewis |
Case 91 |
Judgment by default |
The Man was sick. It tis damned roguery |
W 69 N |
John Kimbrough vs. William Alston |
Case 97 |
Entt Joseph Briant Bail |
Executed by a damned Rogue & Bill not sufficient |
F 70 |
Solomon Turvil vs. James Turvil |
Ecd on 2 negroes |
Negroes not worth a damn Cost exceeds the whole |
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W 71 |
William Roberts vs. John Howard |
Appl
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Plaintiff pays costs |
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P 72 W |
Thomas Person vs. William Todd |
Appl
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Persons dead |
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1 With entries made by the Regulators.