The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1886-07-09
COLONIAL ael,cs.
cwo Ancient Doeaussess Resked Up In Old
virgisia Dnsen9 ~ War.


Virginia Dassag ~ War.
Oscar F. Richards q Akron. Erie
County. N. T.. was . msnbcr of the
One Hundredth rsgimsAt New York
volunteers. and lost n eys By musket
ball at the battle oe Fair Oaks, for
which h. was discharged He has left
with the Times correspondent two vener-
able and interesting relics Of q time
when the principal baaEls. ground of the
South was indeed old Virginia. They
came to him in much - same way that
hundreds of such document were picked
up a. waits and estrays during the war :.
These papers are wfis tspued out Of
the county court to the sheriff of Prince
George County, which county embraces
part of the present city Of Petersburg.
Each is about the siss OF . half-page Of
cap paper, about hak written and half
pr .nted form; the ink y black, and rs
legible as If written yesterday. The
date of the older of the two will Justly
me in transcribing il verbatim.
George the Second. BY shs Gree Of Cod of
Defender Of the IA en-, -.
To the sheriff OF Prlnes George County,
We ySs ss.s You take
Bail,w.ck. and her safely ksep. @ that You
have her Body before The Justices Of our
said County Court, at the Court-H0use Of tho
mex. to satisfy T6omss aysn lie . sam np. Of
Three pounds eight shillings aad four pence,
current money. and sevensy one pounds Of
HnQn fOr nm Nl,n .~aSl
Thomas Hyam hath lately q ear said Court
recovered against her for Deet, and for his
Costs about this suit In this behalf expend-
convict. rs appears to us, of Record. And
have then there this writ.
Witness. William HRmlin, Clerk Of our said
day of March, l7A5, 4 in the Nineteenth year
Of our Reign.
WIZ. HAMLIs.
The sheriffs return, written on the
back of the writ, shows that the unfor-
innate lady was arrested and held to
satisfy the same; but whether the un-
chivalrous Thomas Hyam ever obtained
his money and tobacco from her does
not APPEAR.
The other writ Is an execution against
the property of one Thomas Lovesay.
Jr.. to the sheriff of the same county,
on which he returns that he has ''levied
on a pewter spoon" The date is May
6, 1774. Both of these relics are in OK
cellent preservation. Except some
fractures in the creases of the stiff paper
where folded. they may be said to be
''as good as new"
A brief reference to a few contempt
rary events will make as better UNDER
stand the great age of document which
Is dated in March. 1745. Benjamin
Franklin was then less than forty years
old. George Washington was q boy of
thirteen. meditaticg nothing more than
the destruction of cherry trees. The
battle of Culloden, which assured the
title of George H., by the grace of
God, etc." to the throne, and which for
ever crushed the hopes of Stuart, was
not fought until a year later And the
great Napoleon did not see the light un-
til twenty years after. The Declar-
alton of Independence came thirty-onc
years after, and we read that the docu-
ment has become well nigh illcgible; but
here is the writ from Prince Georges
county, one hundred and forty years
old, carrying us far back into the
GOOD old colony times
When We were under the King.
and as plainly to be read, both printand
writing. as the types that place it before
the reader.-Lockport (M ~ Cor. N.
7. Times.