INSTRUCTIONS TO THE CLAIBORNE COUNTY SHERIFF TO SUMMON "FIFTY GOOD AND TRUE MEN SLAVE-HOLDERS AND HOUSEHOLDERS" TO CONSIDER "IN SPECIAL VENIRE OF FIFTY" THE CASE OF "EVERETT A SLAVE." WITH THE SHERIFF'S LIST OF FIFTY SUCH MEN WHOM HE SO SUMMONED. HONORABLE STANHOPE POSEY, JUDGE OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT, PRESIDING.
Claiborne County MS: 1857 [October 7]. 4to. [4] pp, entirely in ink manuscript. Signed with a flourish by the Clerk, Dan McDougall, and the Deputy Sheriff, G.R. Girault. Daniel McDougall [1813-1863], born in Schenectady, migrated to Port Gibson, Claiborne County. He was appointed Clerk of the Claiborne County Circuit Court..... More