The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1886-07-10
COLONIAL RELICS
rwc Ancient Documents Picked Up In Old
Virginia During the War.

virginia During the War.
Oscar r. Richards, Of Akron, Eric
County, N. Y, was member Of tho
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 vcner-
able and interesting relics Of a timo
when the principal battle-ground of the
South was indeed old Virginia. They
came 10 him in much the same way that
hundreds Of such document wore picked
up as waits and cSrays during the war.
These paPNrs Ma writs issued out OF
the county court TO the sheriff OF Py'ncs
George County, which county embraces
n part of shc present city of Petersburg.
Esch is about the size of half-page of
cap paper, abent half written and half
printed form; the ink is black, and as
legible as II written yesterday. The
date of the older of tho two will Justify
me In tn,anscribing il verbatim.
! George the Second by the Grace of'God of
GreT Britain, Franco, and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, &c.
To ilhe Sheriff of Prince George County,
greeting: We command you thatyUu take
Elizabeth Mallory, II she be found IN your
Bailwlok. mud her safely keep, so that you
said County Court, atti ConnSHotse Of the
soidcounty, on the second Tuesday in Aprn
next TO -sissisfy. INonras Hysm ttlie sum Of
| Three pounds eigktBbillings and fOur penca,
current money. ana SeventyIDne pounds OF
necS Tobacco, Il Seven, Shfllings and sig
ps1ee fors.n Attorneys Fee, wiidt the said
Thomas Hynm hath lately ut Our said Court
| recovered against lTcr for Debt, wnd for his
Costs abolt this snt in this behalf eYpend.
| eS: whereof the said Elizabeth Mallory is
ccnvict. 'as appears to us,'of Record. Anu
| liave then there this writ.
Witness, william Hamlln. Clerk of our sBlu
Il Court, 1T the saidoUourt. house .tlIc thirttenth Ii
day OF March, l7fs, Il in the Nineteenth gem
0f our ,lteign
| WI. HAMtrN.
The sheriffss return, written on the
back of the writ. shows that the unfor-
inmate lady was arrested md held ito
satisfy the same; but whether the rnl-
chivalrous Thomas Hyam ever obtained
/ This money and tobacco ifrom her docs
not appear.
I The other writ is an execution against
the property of one Thomas LoWsay,
Jr-, to the sheriff Of the same COUNTY,
on which he returns that he has 'lovied
ION pew ten spoon" The date is May
6, IVA. Both of these relics are I'M eX,
ceIlent 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 co1ftempo-
rary events will make us better under.
stand the great age of decumentwhicll
is dated in March, 1745. Benjamin
Franklin was then less than forty years
ola. George Washington was a boy OF
thirteen, meditating nothing moue than
the destruction. of cherry trees. The
battle of Culloden, which assured the
title of George H. ay the grace Of
God. etc. to the throne, and which for
ever crushed the hopes of Stuart, was
not fought until year Letter. And the
great Napoleon did not see the light un-
It'll twenty-four years after. The Deelar-
alton of Independence came thirty-onc
years after, and we read that the decu.
ment has become well nigh illegible; bui
here is the writ from Prince Georges
county, one hundred and forty years
old. carrying us far hack into the
-Good old colony times
When we were under the King.
and as plainly to be read, both Printsnt
writing, rs the types thst place it befon
the reader.-Lockport 1M. " Gsr. N
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