Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0327-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "J. Skene Register J. Skene Register", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Hallan Delamare Complainant v. Joseph Blake  Defendant
    
      
       Colonel Joseph Blake (1700-1751), son of Governor Blake, was a landgrave, a lord proprietor, and a great landowner. He married Sarah, daughter of Daniel Sindry. (SCHGM, I, 158, 159-)
      Holland Delamere died in 1739 (Si. Philip’s Register 1720-1758, p. 259).
    
   Mr. Hume Council for the Complainant this day Moved for a Writt of Injunction to Stop the Defendants farther proceeding at Common Law, and prays that the Bill might be read, Ordered and read accordingly, He the said Hume Alledges, that the Agreement made and sett forth in the Bill of Complaint was fraudulently done and Obtained by the Defendant Blake; Council being heard and Debated on both sides Upon weighing and Considering of the said Bill It is the Opinion of this Court; that there is Sufficient Matter of Equity in the said Bill to grant an Injunction and it is therefore Ordered to be granted And that an Answer be put in by the Defendant by the first Thursday in September next.

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J. Skene Register

Upon the humble Petition of Benjamin Godin and the Reverend Mr. Alexander Garden this day preferred to this Honourable Court for the reasons therein Contained

Ordered That it be according to the prayer thereof.

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J. Skene Register 
      
       Alexander Garden was the beloved rector of St. Philip’s for thirty-four years, and the commissary of the Bishop of London from 1726 until his resignation in 1753. He came to Charleston in 1719, and married Martha Guerard in 1725. (F. Dalcho, An Historical Account of the Protestant Episcopal Church in South Carolina, 1820, pp. 98, 103, 166, 176; St. Philip’s Register 1720-1758, P- 155-)