Colonial Records - Dobbs County, NC
Venire facias to Thomas Torrans for a Court of Oyer and Terminer and General
Gaol Delivery in Dobbs County, including list of jurors
Caswell, Richard, 1729-1789; Torrans, Thomas
October 11, 1773 - October 27, 1773
Volume 09, Pages 691-693
North Carolina,
Richard Caswell Esqre one of the Judges & Justices of the Courts of Oyer &
Terminer & General Gaol delivery in the said Province by Letters Patent of our
Lord the King under the Great Seal of the Province of North Carolina aforesaid
to the Honble Martin Howard, Maurice Moore and the said Richard Caswell Esqres
or either of them made to enquire more fully the truth, by the Oaths of Good
and Lawfull men of the County of Dobbs in the Province aforesaid, and by other
ways and means by which the truth of the matter may be the better known &
enquired into of all Treasons, Murders, Rebellions, Insurrections,
Counterfeitings, Felonys and all other crimes & offences whether Capital or
not Capital within the said County and the same for this time to hear and
determine—
To the Coroner of the County of Dobbs Greeting: In behalf of our said Lord the
King, you are hereby commanded to cause to come before me and my fellow
Justices aforesaid or either of us at Kingston in the said County on Wednesday
the Twenty Seventh day of October Inst Twenty four Good and Lawfull men
Freeholders within your Bailiwick to do and receive all those things which on
the behalf of our said Lord the King shall be then & there enjoined them, and
that you yourself be then and there in your person to do then those things
which to your Office in this behalf doth Appertain and that you have then and
there the names of the Jurors & this precept.
Dated under my hand & Seal the 11th day of October in the XIII year of the
Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the Third King of Great Britain &c, Anno
Dom. 1773.
Rd CASWELL.
Venire to Dobbs to Summon Grand Jury to attend Court of Oyer &c at Kingston
27th Octo. 1773.
In Obedience to the within precept I have Summoned the several persons whose
names are in the panel hereunto Annexed, to Act & do as within I am Commanded
27th Octor 1773.
THOs TORRANS, Coror.
A Pannell of Grand Jurrors Summoned to Attend the Court of Oyer and Terminer,
And General Gaol Delivery to be held at Kingston on the 27th Octobr 1773.
1. Simon Bright Junr
2. Francis McIlwean
3. William Whitfield
4. Henry Goodman
5. Majr Croom
6. Benjamin Caswell
7. Robert White
8. Stephen Blackman
9. Joseph Pipkin
10. John Herritage
11. Samuel Caswell
12. Thomas Curtis
13. Charles Markland
14. Timothey Goodman
15. Anthoney Herring
16. Jesse Jornigan
17. Jon Charles Dockom
18. William Rhodes
19. Spyers Shingelton
20. Henry Howel
21. William Crawford
22. Constantine Whitfield
23. John Linton
24. William Flowers
THOs TORRANS, Coror.