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George the Third, by the Grace of God, of
Great-Britain, France, and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. to
John ACKOSS and John WHITEHURST of the County Princess Anne in the Colony of Virginia
Esquire, Greeting. Know Ye, that We, in Confidence of your Prudence and
Fidelity, have appointed You, and by these Presents, do give You full Power
and Authority, diligently to examine Juliana SIMMONS the Wife of William
SIMMONS, Anne Mary MORICE the Wife of James MORICE upon certain
Interrogatories, to be exhibited to you as well on the Part of Lydia WHITE
and Caleb WHITE by Dorcas JASPER their guardian Plaintiffs as on the part of
Daniel WHITE Defendant, or of either of them.
Therefore we require you, that at certain Days and
Places to be appointed for that Purpose, you do cause the said Witnesses to
come before you, and then and there examine each of them a-part, upon the
said Interrogatories, on their respective corporal Oaths, first taken before
you, on the Holy Evangelists; and that you do take such their Examinations,
and reduce them into Writing: And when you have so taken them, you are to
send the same to our Chief Justice of the Province aforesaid, and his
Associates, at the next Superior Court of Justice to be held for the
District of Edenton, at the Court-House in Edenton, on the XXVth Day of
October next, closed up, under your Seals, distinctly and plainly set,
together with this Writ and the said Interrogatories. Witness Martin HOWARD Esq; Chief Justice of our said Province, at Edenton the twenty fifth Day of
April in the tenth Year of our Reign.
/s/ Sam JOHNSTON
Thomas JONES atty.
[SOURCE: Manuscript and Archives
Reference System (MARS);
Edenton District
Superior Court Estates Records 1756-1806; MARS ID: 398.6.732 (Box)];
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Caleb White - 1807
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horrible so there may be errors in the transcription)
Col. Jas. PHILLIPS
Sir
In the Suit at the
____ of Tho. BRAY et.ux. agt you
___ now depending in the Sup. Court of the County of Chowan take notice that
the testimony of Malachi JONES will be taken on the 15th Day of
Aprill next at the house of Jesse TAYLER in Knotts Island in the
County of Currituck before some _____ authority ______ in
_____ the
said cause.
/s/ name unreadable
Edenton
30
March 1807
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State of North Carolina
Know ye, That we reposing especial trust and confidence
in your fidelity and prudent circumspection, do command, authorize and
empower you, or any of you, that at such time and place as you shall
appoint, you call and cause to come before you Malachi JONES and him
diligently examine on the Holy Evangelists of Almighty God, what he knows in
and about a certain matter of dispute now at issue in the Superior Court of
Law, made in a cause, wherein Thomas BRAY & Wife are plaintiffs, and
James PHILLIPS et ux are defendants as well on the part of the plaintiff as the
defendant, and such examination and deposition by you so taken, you are to
send closed up under your seal, to our said Court, to be held for the
district of Edenton, at the Court-House in Edenton, on the First Monday
after the Fourthteen day of September next; and this you are in no wise to
omit. Witness William BLAIR, Clerk of the said Court at Edenton, the XXXth
day of March in the XXXIth year of the Independence of the said State, Anno
Dom 1807.
/s/ Will BLAIR Clk
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N Carolina
[torn] County
In Obediance to a commission to me
directed personally
came and appeared before me Jesse TAYLOR one of the acting Justices for the
County afsd Malachi JONES and maketh Oath on the Holy Evanjelist of
Almighty God deposeth and sayeth that in the year of 1791 that he the afsd
M. JONES was appointed by the County court afsd as one to audite and settle
the acts [accounts] of Samuel JASPER & Amey WHITE exrs
of the Last Will and Testament
of Caleb WHITE decd with said decd estate and at the time of audite the
said Amey WHITE produced a note of said Caleb WHITE, to the
amount of Fifty
pounds curency which he the said Caleb WHITE had given her previous to their Intermarage which he the afsd
M. JONES objected to allowing because the
said note was given to her in the time of her being the Widow of John
SIMMONS decd who loaned her the use of all his property or nearly all during
her Widowhood and being one of the auditors found no such money there
accounted for to SIMMONS estate nor his Heirs and in the act ware divided
and could not agree. And there was another meeting appointed for the audite
but he the said M. JONES did not go and afterward was requested by the afsd
Amey WHITE to assign an audite which was made out by the others which he the
afsd JONES did refuse to do as the Fifty pound was there allowd and she
the afsd. Amey WHITE got another auditor appointed in his Room and Stead and
the fifty pound was allowed as an offset to the charges against them as Exrs. And further this deponent sayeth not.
/s/ Malachi JONES
Given under my hand and seal this 15th day
of April 1807 on which day said deposition was then sworn to & Subscribed
before me.
/s/ Jesse TAYLOR J.P.
[SOURCE: Manuscript and Archives
Reference System (MARS);
Edenton District
Superior Court Estates Records 1756-1806; MARS ID: 398.6.731 (Box)];
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