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Thomas Heyward, at Charleston, S.C., signs a warrant for John Morral on a charge of debt, 1788.
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[recto] SOUTH-CAROLINA. THE STATE OF SOUTH-CAROLINA. To all and singular the Sheriffs of the said State, GREETING: You, and each of you, are hereby commanded, without Delay, to attach the Body of [handwritten] John Morrale[?] otherwise called John Morrall[?] of the Parish of All Saints Planter_ [printed] wheresoever he may be found, within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel him to be and appear before the Justices of the said State, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Charleston, on the first Tuesday in July next, to answer to [handwritten] Mordecai Myers otherwise called Mordecai Myers of Georgetown Merchant, in a plea of Debt that he render unto him the sum of three Hundred & seventeen pounds One shilling & five pence sterling which to him he owes & from him unjustly detains & so forth__ [printed] And have you then and there this Writ. WITNESS the honorable Thos Heyward Junr Esq. One of the said Justices at Charleston, the eighteenth Day of March in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Eight and in the twelfth Year of the Soveriegny and Independence of the United States of America. [signed] Watie Pf Atty [Signed on left] Thomas Heyward Junr [Endorsements and annotations on verso, docket]
Creation Date
3-18-1788
City
Charleston
State/Province
South Carolina
Country
United States
Creator Life Dates
1746-1809
Keywords
Warrant, Thomas Heyward, Charleston, South Carolina, debt, John Morrall, 1788, Mordecai Myers
Resource Identifier
080617-05
Date Digital
11-7-2013
Document Type
Manuscript
Disciplines
Archival Science | Social History | United States History
Publisher
Wofford College
Format (medium)
manuscript
Format (IMT)
Language
En-us
Digitization Specifications
800ppi 24-bit depth color; Scanned with an Epson 15000 Photo scanner with Epson Scan software; Archival master is a TIFF; TIFFs converted to PDF with Adobe Acrobat XI Pro.
Source
The original from which this digital representation is taken is housed in The Littlejohn Collection at Wofford College, located in the Sandor Teszler Library.
Recommended Citation
Heyward, Thomas Jr. and State of South Carolina, "Warrant signed by Thomas Heyward, Jr. for John Morrall. Charleston, 1788." (1788). Broadus R. Littlejohn, Jr. Manuscript and Ephemera Collection. 109.
https://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/littlejohnmss/109
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