Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 191?-19??, 1914-12-03
Josiah sasser's on Little River"

VI Inc uIOSt Interesting ORDERS IS as
follows: Ordered that Needham Whit
field and Samuel Blythe be appointed
to Inspect the pool for the Insuing
Election" A session of the Court was
held on the second Monday of April,
1882, at The home of Mr.. John Herring
on Little River, an adjournment hav-
ing been taken at the previous meet
ing ~"Incourse" to Mr.. Daniel Her.
rings; there is no explanation why
having adjourned 'I%ncourse" to Mr..
Daniel Herring's5 the court should
have been held at MI. John Herring's.
At this term the will of Josiah Sasser
was proven and Elizabeth Sasser, his
widow, qualified as his e%xecutrix.
The Court again met the second
Monday in July 1882 at John Herring's
on Little river, and among other
things William McKinnie was appoint
ed commissioner to collect the Specific
Provision Tax as provided by Act of
Assembly.
October IA, 1882, the Court was held
at Mrs. Elizabeth Sasser's. and among
other things the following entries APP
pear of record: "a deed of sail from
John Grantham to David Jernigan for
80 acres of land is proved in court by
the oath of David Jernigan and order
ed to be registered" A account of
sails of the estate of Josiah Sasser,
deceased, was turned into the Court
by h Sheriff and ordered that same
be recorded"
Our ancestors seem to have extend
ed their views of independence and to
have spelled according to the dictates
of their c~onsciences.
h interesting record also appears
, at this meeting: ""John Rowell,
whose wife and daughter, complain
ing that he had abused and threatened
l them prayed the peace of the State
against him, he appeared and cross
5 examined his daughter Sabra, and,
l not liking some answer, assaulted and
: beat her in the presence of the Court.
t He was adJudged in contempt and
sentenced to three months in Jail, and
2 to give a bond for $1,000 in specie for
f his good behavior"
Session of January 10, 1888, was
: held at the residence of Samuel
Blythe.
Session of November 1888 was held
at Stephen Cobb's. Among other mat
< tiers to which attention was given, it
e was Ordered that Joel Grantham
t name the inhabitence of Capt. pipkings
i district"
Court was held at John Fleetwood's
on Little river, July u, 1884. At that
meeting Joseph Pipkin, Needham
e Whitfield and Stephen Cobb report
e that they had let out the building of
0 the Court House, Prison and Stocks
g to Col. VIM. McKinne for 1856 pounds,
: he being the lowest bidder.
r A session of the Court was held at
West Point Monday, January 2, 1885,
e and again at the same place April II,
1885, at which meeting DR.. Andrew
Bass was authorized to keep a public
G IfnrrV of Mast Doinf ov1r NIo,-1 -:r~~
S and to keep a house of public enter
tainment on his lane on the north
side of said river.
n I gather from the records that the
u Commissioners appointed by the Act
of 1779 to select a site on which to
: have the Court House n Gaol and
n Stocks built, recommended, and had
a approved by the Court at a very mea-
gerly attended session a location which
appeared satisfactory to them, and
e that at the next court, more largely
e attended than any court during the
q period under consideration, the said
d was annulled, and in 1882 an
o Act Of the Assembly was passed re
citing the failure Of the former com.
u m~issioners to act, n appointing Ste.
.e phen Cobb, Needham Whitfield and
a Joseph Pipkin to contract for three
% do hCdI IL COuLIO VI Lu0 COuI
ty as may be for the Court House
Ie prison and stocks, also to contract fol
building the same. From all of which
it appears that a controversy existed
s respecting the location of the Court
y House. 1t seems that the former
Commissioners and three Justices OF
\. the Peace undertook the location OF
le the County Seat to suit themselves
but when the great body of Justices
gathered they incontinently rescinded
the order of the Court and procured
the passage of the Act of 1882, re
h moving the old Commissioners and
n appointing new ones.
On the 18th Of February, 1882, An
drew Bass, Doctor, conveyed to Ste
y phen Cobb, Needham Whitfield and
e Joseph Pipkin, Commissioners, three
acres of land on the North Side OF
- the Neuse river, as a site for the
; Court House, and the County build.
,,e ings were built upon that site, about
one mile from the corporate limits Of
u the present city of Goldsboro, by Col
William McKinnie.
Some of our older citizens inform
me that they remember very distinct.
tly his Court House. 1t may lave
been larger han the dimensions re.
T CURED by the statute in the building
of court houses, which was 24x16
4 feet. 1t was a frame building, wealth
4 ~er-boarded and raised high above the
! ground on brick pillars, leaving a
large, open space underneath, in which
space Capt. Thomas W. Slocumb, his
boy friends and the goats used to
4 play,
/ At that time the County Seat had
l. no name, except that of "The Court
e House," but in January, 1887, the
: town of Waynesboro was incorporated,
as it is stated in the Act Of the Cen
eral Assembly, on the lands of An
drew Bass, and it was provided in the
v act that Andrew Bass should convey to
certain trustees, to-wit: William Nc
Q Kline, Burwell Mooring, William
Whitfield, Joseph Green, David Jerni-
gan, Richard Bass and and William
Fellows, sixty acres of land, including
+ the three acres Heretofore conveyed
on the North side of the Neuse River,
where the Court House and public
Il buildings then stood, and specific di-
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