Court, Granville, NC, Writ ordering trial




            Kings Warrant for
           a called court 21st
               October 1773

          In obedience to the
           within writ I have
              persons ready

           THOMAS SATTERWHITE




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North Carolina   ]
Granville County ] 18 Oct 1773

The the sheriff of Granville county, greetings.

Whereas information is this day made to me, one of his Majesties Justices of
the Peace for the county aforesaid, that a certain Negro man slave called
Sanders – the property of one JOSEPH MCDANIEL, is now in your custody in the
jail of the said county of Granville, charged with willfully maliciously and
feloniously killed and murdered one WILLIAM BRYANT, late of the said county,
against the peace of our sovereign Lord the King, his crown and dignity.

Therefore I command you, (that you) forth with summon a court of three
justices and four freeholders of the said county of Granville to meet at the
court house thereof, on Thursday, the twenty first day of October (instant) to
hold a court for the trial of the said Negro slave according to the form of
the act of assembly in such case made and presided.

Herein fail not and make due return when you shall have executed this writ
given under my hand and seal this eighteenth day of October in the thirteenth
year of our reign Anno Domini one thousand seven hundred and seventy three

DAVID MITCHELL




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