I have just transcribed the following court record and placed it on my Brazzle website.
Thought I would post it on Greene and Daviess Co lists- since my ancestors lived and
traveled throughout both counties and also because it is a very interesting court record.
I
have also put several new land deeds on my site from Greene and Daviess Co.
Karen
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This record was taken from "Greene County, Indiana Secrets of the Past, Civil Boxes,
1821 to
1834, boxes 1 thru
4" compiled by the Greene County Genealogical Society; page 297
State of Indiana, Green County. Be it remembered that on the 8 day of October in the year
of
our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and twenty one, John Simkins, William Daugherty Sr and Nathaniel Daugherty,
William
Brazeal, Richard Hufman
and William Daugherty Jun. came before me one of the Judges of our Circuit Court for the
County aforesaid and severally
acknowledged themselves to owe to the State of Indiana the sum of Five hundred Dollars
each
to be levied on their
respective goods and chattles lands and tenements to the use of said State if Default be
made in the conditions following to
wit: the
Condition of this recognizance is such that if above bound John Simkins shall personally
appear the next circuit court to be
holeden in and for said county on the first day of our next February Term then and there
to
answer unto Fielding Rakley for
the feloniously taking and bringing away Sundry of property from Morgan County and State
of
Tennessee to this County to
wit: two Sorrel horses and one bay and nineteen head of neat cattle of whose property
these
horses have been found and
taken and abide ? judgement of the court and not to depart the county thereof without
leave
then this recognizance to be vac?
and of none effect otherwise to be and remain in full force and virtue in law in witness
whereof have hereunto set our hands
and seals this date.