Richard Caswell Estate Papers  

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On Thursday the 24th instant will be hired out at Kinston for one year about forty slaves and several plantations to be leased for the same term the property of the Heirs & Legatees of the Hon'ble Richard Caswell Esq'r Dec'd. All persons indebted to the estate of said Deceased are requested to make payment on that day otherwise suits will be commenced against them without respect of persons. W. Caswell Exec'r
1st Jan'y 1793

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State of North Carolina
To the Sheriff of Cumberland County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to take the bodies of James Carraway & Charles Stewart Carraway (if to be found in your county) and them safely keep, so that you have them before the Judge of the Superior Court of Law, to be held for the County of Lenoir at the Court House in Kinston on the third Monday in October next; then and there to answer Dallam Caswell surviving Exe'r of Richard Caswell dec'd of a plea that they render him two hundred and sixty pounds Virginia Currency equal in value to four hundred & thirty three pounds six shillings & eight pence which to him they owe & unjustly obtained to his damage three hundred pounds. Herein fail not, and have you then and there this writ.
Witness William Lovick Clerk of our said Court at Kinston the third Monday of April and in the XXXII year of our independence, A. D. 1808.
Issued the 20 day of May A. D. 1808
Wm. Lovick Clerk

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State of North Carolina
Know all men by these presents that we Dallam Caswell & John Gatlin are held and firmly bound to James Carraway & C. S. Carraway in the just and full sum of one hundred pounds; to the payment whereof well and truly to be made to the said James & Charles S. Carraway their executors, administrators or assigns, we bind ourselves, our heirs, executors and administrators, jointly and severally, firmly by these presents. Sealed with our seals, and dated this 20th day of May 1808.
The condition of the above obligation is such, that whereas a writ has this day been sued out of the office of the Clerk of Lenoir County in a suit wherein D. Caswell Exe'r of Richard Caswell is plaintiff and James Carraway & C. S. Carraway defendants. Now in case the said suit be prosecuted with effect, or if the plaintiff, in case he be cast therein, do well and truly pay to the defendant all such costs and damages as shall be awarded by the court, having cognizance thereof in the premises, then the above obligation to be void. Signed sealed and delivered before
D. Caswell {Seal}
Wm. Lovick
John Gatlin {Seal}

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Lenoir Sup'r Court
Dallam Caswell Exe'r &c vs James Carraway & Chas. S. Carraway
Writ debt
To October Term 1808
Executed on Charles S. Carraway the 15 June 1808 James Carraway not to be found in the County. N.W. Craine DS

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Richard Caswell Ex'r vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Rec'd from Charles S. Carraway the sum of ten dollars my fee in his suit.
April 17th 1809
J. L. Guion

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Appearance Docket October Term 1808
Dallam Caswell vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Debt
Executed on Charles S. Carraway, James Carraway, not to be found in the county.
N.W. Craine

Trial Docket April Term 1809
Dallam Caswell vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Debt

Trial Docket October Term 1809
Dallam Caswell vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Debt
On affidavit of Defdt ordered that this suit be sent to Wayne Superior Court

State of North Carolina
Superior Court of Law
Lenoir County
Bill of Costs
Writ 1 of alias writ 1 of bond 4/ : 1--4--
1 Continuance 3/ Transcript 1 of : --13--
Seal 2/6 : --2-6
Sheriff Cumberland : --10--
Total : 2--9-6

I hereby certify that the annexed & foregoing is true copies of the record & proceedings in the said suit wherein Dallam Caswell Exe'r of R. Caswell dec'd is plaintiff & James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway are defendants.
Given under my hand & seal of office at Kinston the 24 day of Feb'y 1810
Wm. Lovick Clk

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Dallam Caswell Exe'r of Rich'd Caswell vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Rec'd and filed 6th March 1810
J. Slocumb

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State of North Carolina
To the Sheriff of Wayne County, Greeting:
You are hereby commanded to summon John Gatlin personally to appear before the honourable Judge of the superior court of law to be held for the county of Wayne on the first Monday in September present next, then and there to testify and the truth to say on behalf of Dellum Caswell Exe'r of Rich'd Caswell in a certain matter of controversy in the said court depending, and then and there to be tried between sd. Caswell Plaintiff and James Carraway & Charles Carraway Defendants; and this you shall in no wise omit, under the penalty by law. Witness Jesse Slocumb clerk of the said court at office, the fourth Monday in Sept'r A. D. 1811.
J. Slocumb Clk

Dellam Caswell vs James Carraway & Charles S. Carraway
Subp'a for Pliff

John Gatlin to Wayne Sup'r Co
Sept'r Term 1811
Wm. Smith Shff

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I hereby acknowledge myself my heirs and assigns Bound Security for the Plaintiff in this Case for the payment of the cost and charges therein expended in case he fail in the prosecution thereof according to act of Assembly in such cases made & provided. In the place of John Gatlin the former Security who prays to be discharged the 30th Sep't 1811.
P. Collier {Seal}

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