1771- Nov – Richard Caswell, Francis McIlweane, Thos. Torrance, Simon
Bright,
Stephen Blackman, Wm. whitfield Jr., James Glasgow, Jesse Cobb,
Joseph Greene, Jesse Jernagin, Constantine Whitfield, Benjamin Griffin –

DSCR 206.928.3
1786 Oct Jurors: Dobbs County- Wm. Sheppard, Matthias Harvey, Richard
Hodges,
James Whitfield –
Will White unable to attend Sept 1796 court as all his white family sick
with burning and fever and ague – John Lovick wit –
Stephen Cobb – unable to attend court due to sick mother –

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22 Sept 1796 – Lenoir County – Will White begs leave not to serve jury duty –
John Lovick and Blake Baker wit.
Stephen Cobb – mother sick – no date

1 Jan 1798 – jurors Hardee Croom, Bryan Whitfield Jr., James Bright Sr.
21 Sept 1790 – William Croom family sick – one child died –
Sept – one child left and wife to seashore for health –

Simon Bright Sr. – March 1800 – Lenoir County – Esquire –
11 Sept 1799 killed female slave of Jesse Cobb Sr. – Moll slave name –
shot her – she died 21 Sept 1799 – Jeremiah Loftin coroner – jurors:
Hardy Croom, Benjamin Lewis, William Bryan, John Harrell, Thomas
Uzzell, Wm. Easterling, Burwell Taylor, John Heath, Leonard Loftin, John
Jackson, Josiah Harrell, William Cox – signatures for them – Winston Caswell,
dec’d house where inquiry held – John Gatlin wit. – John Lovick esq. ment. –
Doctor Wilson – Slade Gatlin ment.

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Jonathan Benton – constable 1799 Lenoir County – William Croom admtr.
Willaim Aldridge dec’d – Lemuel Byrd J.P. – John Aldridge wit. –

Simon Bright – 1789 – Dobbs County – J.P. = Etheledred Ruffin, Joshua
Croom, Moses Westbrook, David Smyth, William Croom, Nathan Byrd – 240
acres land – mortgaged 1 Jn 1788 – to John Goodtitle – land grant to simon Bright
grandfather to Simon Bright 1738 – Wit. Mary Bright – dead by 30 Dec 1789
-jurors: Benjamin Scarborough, Richard Hodges, Ezekiel Creech, William
Andrews, Thomas Aldridge, Spencer Caldwell, Pool Pope, Richard Stanley,
Jesse Aldridge, John Williams, John Arnett, William Pope 1792 – Jesse
Cobb against Nancy Bright admtr of Simon bright – Lenoir County – heirs:
James Bright, Elizabeth the wife of Wm. Lovick, James B. Hooker, Mary C.
Hooker, Nancy Hooker last three infants gdn. James Hooker, Richard G. Bright,
Elizabeth Bright, Nartha Bright, Benjamin Bright, Sally Bright last five
infants by gdn James Hooker, hiers of Mary House – 15 July 1803 these
seem to be two differnet Simons -Mary wife to older one and Nancy wife to
younger one – Jesse cobb sued Nancy for slave shot and killed by Simon. –

more Crooms

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Colonel Benjamin Sheppard – 1792 – heirs: Catherine wife of Graves Bright,
Mary
Gray wife of Wm. Lovick, Nancy wife of Wm. Henry Haywood,
Betsy/Elizabeth
wife of Theophilus Edwards, Feddy/Ferebee Glasgow wife of James
Pasteur, James Glasgow Sheppard, Benjamin Caswell, Dobbs Blount Sheppard,
Abraham Sheppard children and heirs at law of said Benjamin – Joseph Boon & Edward Bass exectr of Richard Bass –
wit: Blaney Harper, Jesse Aldridge, Zachariah Elliot, Nathan Minshew Jr.,
Mary Faircloth, Wm. Taylor, Humphrey Jones, Henry Best, Mary Cail, Nancy Hill – 100 acresland in Lenoir rented 1 Jan 1798 for ten years –

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Peter Harper only son of Peter and Elizabeth Harper 1794

Francis Hodges – 1795 – Lenoir County – John Hodges ment. –
Miles Hutchins, Matthew Moseley, David Smyth, Lemuel Byrd, John
Jones, Frederick Jones, Lazarus Pearce settled estate – J.P. – Esquires also –
April 1795 – Richard Hodges hier – jurors: Wm. Williams, Simon Bruton,
Najor Surles, Henry Cannaday, Hardee Croom, Jese Harper, Henry
Goodman, Wm. Pate, Elijah Hutchins, John Jones(Carpenter), Charles Markland,
Benjamin Phillips

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State Docket fees paid Nov 1789 - John Herring, John Sutton, David smith, 
       Joel Tisson, Zach. Elliott, 

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John Sasser – 1783 Wayne County –
Josiah Sasser – 1784 – Wayne County – Elizabeth Sasser extrx –

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Moses Prescott - 1791 - Sarah Prescott admtr. - Jan 1785 early date for Moses dec'd 
       - Dobbs County - jurors: John Tull, Hugh Ward, William Tull, John Sugg, 
       George Miller, John Edmundson, Mathew Moseley, Wm. Sugg, Wm. Pate Jr., 
       Wm. Forrest, Shadrach Campble, & John Brown - wit. Shff Robert white, 
       Shff John Holliday, Thos. Aldridge, Drury Aldridge -
       J.P. Moses Westbrook, Joshua Croom, Nathan Byrd, Lazarus Pearce, Esq. 
       Oct 1792 court - Oct 1792 jurors: John Tull, Wm. Jerman, Archibald Byrd, 
       Wm. White, Wm. Tutle, Windale Davis, Jesse Cobb, Aron Pool, John Parrott, 
       Isaac Taylor, James Ingram, Benjamin Coleman - wit: Drewry Aldridge, 
       Wm. Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge, Thomas Aldridge Jr., Joel Dawson, 
       John Sugg - court 1785: Wm. Hooker, Wm. Ormond, Benjamin Exum, 
       Etheldred Ruffin, Major Croom Esquire and J. P. Dobbs county - 
       jurors: Jan 1785: John tull, Hugh ward, Wm. Tull, John Sugg, George Miller, 
       John Edmundson, Mathew Moseley, Wm. Sugg, Wm. Pate Jr., Wm. Forrest, 
       Shardrach Campbell, John Brown - Sarah wife of Moses - 
       Wm. Christie of Burk County, Georgia formerly Dobbs County, NC testify 
       - John Adam Nesler of Burk County, Georgia testifies formerly of Dobbs 
       County, NC - Silas Carter witness - John Creel Senior wit - Thomas Innis 
       of Burk County, Georgia formerly of Dobbs testifies - Josiah White wit - 

DSCR 206.508.7