John H. Slight (1794)

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State of North Carolina
     To the Sheriff of Currituck County Greeting.  You are hereby commanded to take the Body of Andrew DUKE if to be found in your Bailiwick & him safely keep so that you have him before the Justices of the County Court of pleas & Quarter Sessions to be held for the County of Currituck at the Courthouse in Currituck on the last Monday in February next then & there to answer John SLIGHT & John SLIGHT Adm^r of all & singular the goods & chattels of John H. SLIGHT of a plea whereof with force etc. then & there & then & there broke and entered into the Lands of said John SLIGHT &c. & then & there did cut down take & carry away & other Injuryes to the said John SLIGHT & John SLIGHT Adm^r of John H. SLIGHT, then and there did the great damage of said John SLIGHT & ag^t the Peace & Damage Five Hundred Pounds & Herein fail not & have you then & there this Writ.  Witness Hollowell WILLIAMS Clerk of s^d Court at Currituck the XXVIII day of November in the XVIII year of our Independence Anno Domini 1793.
     /s/ Holl^o WILLIAMS C.C.C.

 John SLIGHT}     Writ Trespas
         vs             }     Not Executed Sam^l SALYEAR Shiff
Andrew DUKE}

State of North Carolina
     To the Sheriff of Currituck County Greeting.  You are hereby commanded as before to take the Body of Andrew DUKE if to be found in your Bailiwick & safely keep so that you have him before the Justices of the County

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Court of Pleas & Quarter Sessions to be held for the County of Currituck at the Court House in Currituck on the last Monday in May next then & there to answer unto John SLIGHT Henry SLIGHT Cornelius SLIGHT of a plea of Trespas by force of Arms Damage Five Hundred Pounds herein fail not & have you then & there this Writ.  Witness Hollowell WILLIAMS Clerk of the s^d Court at Currituck the 28^th day Feb. in the XVIII year of our Independence Anno Domini 1794.
     /s/ Holl^o WILLIAMS C.C.C.

 John SLIGHT etal }     Executed & bail^d Sam^l SALYEAR, Shiff
            vs                 }     Currituck County May Term 1795   
    Andrew DUKE   }

 John SLIGHT etal }     Liberum Ten Mentum & Issue
            vs                 }     Trespass
    Andrew DUKE   }     Not Guilty

Jury to Wit:
Benjamin TAYLOR Thomas BARNARD Nathaniel HUTCHENS Peter DAUGE Lemuel SANDERSON James PARKER John McHORNEY Willis SIMMONS Elijah ADDISON John DOXEY Hollowell ETHERIDGE Caleb GREGORY

Jury Empannel & sworn say the Defendant is not guilty Plaintiffs by Thos.. VAIL their Att^o Say that the Verdict in this cause is Contrary to Evidence this Reason I consider to be sufficient for an appeal to the Sup^r Court of the District of Edenton.
     T. VAIL plff Att^o

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  State North Carolina  }     February Term 1794
Currituck County Court}
     Andrew DUKE planter was attached to answer to John SLIGHT Henry SLIGHT and Cornelius SLIGHT in a plea of Trespass vi et annis for that whereas the said Andrew DUKE on Tenth day of February in the year of our Lord one Thousand Seven hundred and ninety two at the County of Currituck with force and arms did enter the cl__ of the said John SLIGHT Henry SLIGHT and Cornelius SLIGHT and then and there did cut down take and carry away Twenty Cypress and Twenty Junipers to the great damage of them the said John SLIGHT and Henry SLIGHT and Cornelius SLIGHT and other injuries to them the said John H. SLIGHT Henry SLIGHT Cornelius SLIGHT did then & there commit wherefore the said John H. SLIGHT Henry SLIGHT & Cornelius SLIGHT saith that they have sustained dam. to the value of five hundred pounds and therefore they bring this suit.
     /s/ T. VAIL plff. Att^o

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These plans Represents two Patents Evan MILLERs and William FEREBEEs, The beginning of Evan MILLERs Patent is a pine and running agreeable to the marked line which is the Black line and the dotted line agreeable to the courses and distances of said Patent.
     William BALLANCE}
             Hosea DAVIS   }         Cha. Bearers

Thos. POYNER S^nr   }
Josiah NICHOLSON}              Surveyors

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Appeal Granted     Will MAUND}   Securitys
                              John DOXEY}

I do Certify this to be a true Transcript of the aforesaid Suit.
     Test. W^m TAYLOR D^y C.C.C

 John SLIGHT etal }
            vs                 }     Cost  
    Andrew DUKE   }

[SOURCE: Manuscript and Archives Reference System (MARS); Edenton District Superior Court Estates Records 1756-1806; MARS ID: 398.6.624 (Box); Microfilm C.201.1905674]

Transcribed by Judy Merrell Brickhouse, September 2006