Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1886-07-01
COLONIAL RELICS,
Two Anciena Documents Picked Up In Old
Virginia During the War.

Two Anciena documents Picked Up In Old
Virgins During the War.
Oscar F. Richards. of Akron, Erie
County, n. T.. was q member of the
One Hundredth regiment New York
volunteers, and lost an eye by musket
ball at the battle of Fair Oaks, for
which he was discharged. He has left
with the Times correspondent two Yener
able and interesting relics Of tame
when the principal battle-ground of tbs
South was indeed old Virginia. They
came to him in much the same way that
hundreds of such document were picked
up as waits and estrays during the war !.
These papers are writs issued 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 size of half-page OF
cap paper, about half written and half
printed form; the ink is black, and as
legible as if written yesterday. The
date of the older of the two will Justify
me in transcribing it verbatim.
George the Second, by the Grace of God OF
Great Britain: France, and Ireland, King.
Defender of the Faith, SC.
To the Sheriff of Prince George County
ggrreee dhs;; we command you that you take
BaliiWick, and her safely keep, SO that you
have her Body before the Justices of our
said County Court, at the Courthouse of the
next to satisfy THOMAS Hvam the 81 sn mpt ot
Three pounds eight shiIlings and four pence,
current money. and Seventy one pounds OF
pence for an Attorneys Fee, which the said
Thomas -Hyam hath lately at onr said Court
recovered against her for Debt, and for his
costs about
ed: whereof the said Elizabeth Mallory is
convict, as appears to us, of Record. And
have then there this writ.
witness, William Hamlin, Clerk of our said
Court, at the said Court house, the thirteenth
day of March, 1745, & in the Nineteenth year
of our Reign.
WIN. HAMLIN.
The sheriffs return, written on the
back Of the writ, shows that the unfor-
inmate 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 Lovesav,
Jr., to the sheriff of the same county,
on which he returns that he has s'levied
on pewter spoon" The date is May
6, 1774. Both of these relics are in ex.
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 few contempt.
rary events will make us 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 a boy OF
thirteen, meditating nothing more than
the destruction of cherry trees. The
battle of Culloden, which assured the
title of George IL, by the grace OF
God, etc." to the throne. and which for.
ever crushed the hopes of Stuart, was
not fought until year later. And the
great Napoleon did not see the light un-
til twentyfour years after. The Declar-
alton of Independence came thirty-one
years after, and we read that the docu-
ment has become well nigh illegible; 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 print anc
writing, as the types that place it before
the reader.-Lockport (M. ~ Cor. N.
7. Times.