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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Present, His Excellency The Governor; The Honorable John Cleland, Edward Fenwiclte, James Michié, Othniel Beal, Henry Middleton, Esquires; John Bassnett Esq. Master.
    Maurice Fleming v. John Holmes and others
    
      
       Henry Middleton (1717-1784), son of President of the Council Arthur Middleton, inherited estates in Carolina, Barbados, and England, in all some twenty settled plantations and 800 slaves. He was also the founder of Middleton Place, which he acquired by marriage to Mary Williams. A delegate to the first Continental Congress, he was for a few months its president. His son Arthur was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. See Dictionary of American Biography.
      
    
   The Matter upon the Defendants Demurrer put into the Complainant’s Bill of Complaint in this Cause being opened to this Court by Mr. Leigh of Counsel for the Defendant in the presence of Mr. Graeme being of Counsel with the Complainant, And upon Debate of the said Demurrer and hearing what was alledged on either side, The Court thought fit to advise thereon till the next sitting of the Court.

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Upon opening the Petition of Barnaby Branford and Elijah Postell preferred to this Court, praying among other things that the Guardianship of the Infant Children of Barnaby Branford Deceased be Committed to the Petitioner Elijah Postell, It is Ordered that the said Petition do stand over, And that Counsel be further heard in that behalf.

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       Peter Leigh (1712-1759), High Bailiff of Westminster and “a discredited English barrister,” had displaced Charles Pinckney as chief justice in 1753, when young Peter Manigault wrote home that Leigh was reckoned a sound lawyer and a merry companion. At the time of his death in 1759 he was provincial Grand Master of the Free and Accepted Masons. (McCrady, S. C. under the Proprietary Government, p. 33; SGHGM, XXXII, 119; Salley, Death Notices, p. 28.)