Primary Sources: Rockingham Co. Court Records

Rockingham County Court Records
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Larry Shifflett lfsofva@hotmail.com
and Kim Morris kimorris@gte.net

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ROCK. CO. COURT MINUTE BOOK #5, 1802-1806, PAGE 296:
"At a Court held for Rockingham County, Tuesday January 15th, 1805---------------- County levy for year of 1804--------------To Joshua Chiflet for one old Wolf -$5.00"

ROCK. CO. COURT MINUTE BOOK #7, 1810-1814, PAGE 282:
"At a Court held for the County of Rockingham, Tuesday August 18, 1812----------- Overseers of the Poor vs. John Blose on a Recognizance as the father of a base born child of Nancy Shiflet -----------42 pounds on Terms-------His surety Jacob Moyers"

ROCK. CO. COURT MINUTE BOOK #7, 1810-1814, PAGE 352:
"At a Court held for the County of Rockingham the 16th day of March 1813---------- A deed from Baugher to Shiflet acknowledged and ordered to be recorded------------ A deed from Shiflet to Baugher acknowledged and ordered to be recorded-----------"

ROCK. CO. COURT MINUTE BOOK #7, 1810-1814, PAGE 395:
"At a Court held for the County of Rockingham the 15th day of June 1813------------ County levy-------To Miley Shiflet for patrolling -1.50"

ROCK. CO. COURT MINUTE BOOK #7, 1810-1814, PAGE 438:
"Tuesday, to wit - At a Court held for the County of Rockingham the 19th day of October 1813: Overseers of the Poor vs. Miley Shiflet on a recognizance as the father of a base born child of Ann Rains, on the motion of John Shiflet, Jacob Shiflet, & George Airy by their attorney and for reasons appearing to the Court, the said recognizance is ordered to be granted, from which opinion of the Court the attorney for the Overseers of the Poor excepted, which was signed and sealed as the law directs and ordered to be made a part of the Record."

ROCK. CO. SUPERIOR COURT BOOK, PAGE 322:
"At a Superior Court of Law held for the County of Rockingham comprising a part of the 11th Circuit on the Monday before the 3rd Tuesday, being the 19th day of May 1828---------An indictment against Sinclair Shiflet for an assault & battery a true bill----"

ROCK. CO. SUPERIOR COURT BOOK, PAGE 339:
"Tuesday the 21st day of October 1828-----------
Commonwealth
agst. } Upon a Indictment for an Assault & Battery
Sinclair Shiflet Defendant
This day came the attorney for the Commonwealth and it appearing to the Satisfaction of the Court that the said Defendant had been summoned to answer the said Indictment and he not appearing altho solemnly called, it is ordered that a Capias be awarded against the said defendant returnable here to May Court Next."

ROCK. CO. SUPERIOR COURT BOOK, PAGE 357:
"-----May 18th, 1829--------Commonwealth against Sinclair Shiflett------the Attorney for the Commonwealth by consent of the Court saith that he will not prosecute further the aforesaid indictment, therefore it is ordered that it be dismissed."

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY COURT MINUTE BOOK #13, PAGE 107
"At a Court ---- held at the Courthouse of Rockingham county on the 9th day of December 1830 for the trial of Giles a Negro man slave the property of Frances Wilkerson of the County of Buckingham, who was committed to the Jail of this County on Suspicion of felony and stands charged with feloniously, voluntarily, maliciously, and of purpose stabbing Zachariah McDaniel with the intent in so doing to maim, disfigure, disable, and kill him the said McDaniel -
Present: Peachy Harrison, Joseph cline, Jacob Rush, George H. Chrisman & Augustus Waterman - - -} G. Justices
The said Prisoner was led to the bar in custody of the Jailor and thereof being arraigned pleaded Not Guilty by him and thereupon the Witness to wit Zachariah McDaniel being sworn and examined (illegible) the said offense, and the said prisoner being fully heard in his defense by David Irvin esq., his attorney, the Court upon consideration thereof are of the opinion that the said prisoner is Guilty of the offense whereof he stands charged, whereupon it is ordered that he be forthwith burnt in the hand by the Jailor of the Court, and that he moreover receive on his bare back at the public whipping post 30 Lashes, and it is further ordered that the Sheriff cause this last part of this Judgment to be immediately today inflicted on the said Prisoner, after which he is to be restored to the Jailor to be kept as a runaway slave.
And the Court arose. Peachy Harrison"

ROCKINGHAM COUNTY CHANCERY CAUSE
Louden B. Bruce ...... Plaintiff
against
Benjamin Powell, James Powell, and Elizabeth his wife, Fanney Powell, Jarrard Powell, Chapman Powell, Jeremiah Powell, Honourias Powell an Infant under age by Henry J. Gambill his Guardian adlitum, Turner Shiflet and Milley his wife, Robert Powell & Mary Powell, Widow .... Defendants

THE COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA TO THE SHERIFF OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, Greeting: You are hereby commanded to summons Benjamin Powell, James Powell and Elizabeth his wife, Fanny Powell, Jeremiah Powell, Jarred Powell, Chapman Powell, Honorias Powell, Turner Shiflet and Milly his wife, Robert Powell, children & heirs of Honorias Powell, dec'd and Mary Powell, widow of Honorias Powell, dec'd, and George Baugher and Nicholas Baugher exers of Daniel Baugher dec'd and James Powell and Benjamin Powell exers with the will annexed of sd. Honorias Powell deceased, to appear at the clerks office of our Superior Court of Law and Chancery holden for Rockingham County on the first Monday of March next, to answer a bill in Chancery exhibited against them by Louden B. Bruce and you are also hereby required to Notify the said Defendants that unless they shall answer the said bill, within four months thereafter, the Court will take the same for confessed, and decree accordingly; and this they shall in no wise omit under the penalty of L100 each. And have then there this writ. Witness HENRY J. GAMBILL, Clerk of our said Court at the Court-House the 9th. day of January 1833 and in the 57 year of the Commonwealth. H. J. Gambill

Pursuant to a notice herewith enclosed I, Richard P. Fletcher, a master commissioner for taking depositions of the Circuit Superior Court of law and chancery for Rockingham County, proceeded, on the 21st. day of June 1833 at the office of Rd. P. Fletcher in Harrisonburg in said county, to take the following depositions to be read as evidence on the part of Louden B. Bruce in a suit depending in the said court in which the said Louden B. Bruce is plaintiff and Benjamin Powel, J. P. Powel and others are defendants.

Jacob Baugher, a witness on the part of the plaintiff of lawful age being first duly sworn deposeth and saith:
Quest by Pltffs Counsel: Did you hear Honorias Powel the father of Jarred Powel and other defendants, say anything about having sold to Louden B. Bruce any land, if so, what land, and did he say whether said Bruce had paid him for said land?
Ans: I heard him say that he had sold Louden B. Bruce all the land that he had bought of George & Nicholas Baugher, which they sold as executors of Daniel Baugher, which lays on the west side of the road which he made, leading from sd. Powels towards Nicholas Baughers' Mill. Honorias Powel told me that sd. Bruce purchased said land of him for one hundred and fifty dollars, that said Bruce paid him the first payment in a bond of one hundred dollars, and that the bond, having been drawing interest amounts to one hundred and one dollars; that the sd. bond was a bond executed by J. P. Sims and Washington White to the sd. Bruce, sd. Powel told me that sd. Bruce had given him another bond on the same persons' for a hundred dollars, which he was to collect and pay himself out of, the last payment of fifty dollars, and after he paid himself out of sd. bond the balance was to go towards a settlement of the accounts between him and sd. Bruce. v Quest by Same: Did Honorias Powel clear out the road you have named for his own use?
Ans: He said he did sir.
Quest by Same: Whose land does the tract sold to Bruce join on the lower or north side, whose on the South West side, whose on the upper or south east side?
Ans: It joins on the lower or north side the tract that Honorias Powel bought of John Yancey, it joins Thomas Marshals' and Leonard Davis' land on the south west side, and Saml. Baughers land on the upper or south east side, form said Samuel Baughers lands on the upper or south east side the said tract sold to Bruce is bounded by the road which I have mentioned leading from sd. Powels to sd. Nicholas Baughers' sd. Powel told me that he sold sd. Bruce no part of the sd. road that he made it for his own use.
Quest by Same: Has Bruce been in possession of the land, ever since he bought of Powel and is he yet in possession?
Ans: He was living on the land at the time he bought it of Powel and has lived on it ever since to the present time.
Quest by Jared Powel, one of the Defts: Did my father say that Mr. Bruce had put the bonds you have spoken of, in his hands for him to collect and pay himself the price of the land?
Ans: The first bond he said was for the first payment but Mr. Powel said he had paid Mr. Bruce ten dollars out of the amount of the first bond, and the second bond Mr. Bruce had put in his hands to collect and pay himself the last payment for the land.
Quest by Same: Did you see my father receive the bond for the first payment of the land? Ans: I did not see him receive any. And further this deponent saith not.
Jacob Baugher

Nicholas Baugher, a witness on the part of the plaintiff, of lawful age having been first duly sworn deposeth and saith:
Quest by Pltff Counsel: What land did you and George Baugher, as executors of Daniel Baugher deceased, sell to Honorias Powel?
Ans: The land which Geo. Baugher and I sold to Honorias Powel as executors of Danl. Baugher, dec'd. sold to Honorias Powel, lies between the lands of Samuel Baugher, Leonard Davis, Thomas Marshal and John Yancey's tract which he sold to sd. Powel. And further this deponent saith not.
Nicholas his X mark Baugher

George Baugher, a witness on the part of the plaintiff, of lawful age, being duly sworn deposeth and saith:
Quest by Pltffs Counsel: Did Honorias Powel tell you he wished you and Nicholas Baugher as executors of Daniel Baugher, to make a deed to Louden B. Bruce, for the part of the land he bought of you and Nicholas Baugher as exer's of Daniel Baugher, which he had sold to Bruce?
Ans: When Honorias Powel paid me & Nicholas Baugher as executors of Daniel Baugher, the last payment for the land which he bought of us, as sd. exer's, he told me that he wished me, to make a deed to Louden B. Bruce for the part of the said land which he had sold to the said Bruce, and a deed to the other part to himself.
Quest by Same: Did, Jared Powel forbid your making a deed to said Bruce for the said land?
Ans: I don't recollect that he did, but I know that he contended for the land. Benjamin Powel did forewarn me from making sd. Bruce a deed for the said land, but he was intoxicated at the time, and frequently at other times sd. Benjamin appeared very willing that the deed should be made to said Bruce.
Quest by Jared Powel, one of the defts: Did you ever hear my father say what Mr. Bruce was to give him for said land and what were the payments and what was to be the boundary of the said land?
Ans: I don't recollect of hearing him say what Bruce was to give him for the land and what were the payments. I never heard him say what was the boundary of the land, but he told me that it was that end of the land on which the house that Lamb lived in was but, which he sold to Bruce.
Quest by Same: When he told you to make a deed to Bruce for said land, did he tell you whether Bruce had paid him any money for said land?
Ans: No, I don't recollect that he did.
Quest by Same: Did my father tell you at the time mentioned in the last question, whether Mr. Bruce was then living on the land?
Ans: He did not tell me whether he was or not that I recollect of, nor do I recollect whether at that time Bruce lived on the sd. land, and further this deponent saith not.
George Baugher

Cost of Plaintiff in taking foregoing depositions June 3rd. 1833
To 1 L--p $ 18 cts
To attendance 1 day each by 3 witnesses @ 53 1.59
To 3 Hours services by comm. in taking depositions @ 62 1/2 1.87 1/2
3.64 1/2Ó

Rockingham County the 25th. day of July 1833 between Louden B. Bruce ...... Plaintiff
against
Benjamin Powell, James Powell, and Elizabeth his wife, Fanney Powell, Jarrard Powell, Chapman Powell, Jeremiah Powell, Honourias Powell an Infant under age by Henry J. Gambill his Guardian adlitum, Turner Shiflet and Milley his wife, Robert Powell & Mary Powell, Widow .... Defendants
I have survey'd the Land Purchased by the Plaintiff of Honourias Powell deceased by meets and bounds as directed in sd. Decree, a plat of which is hereunto annexed. Beginning at A a high white oak stump, Marshalls & Davises corner and also a corner of the Land the sd. deceased bought of John Yancey and running with a line of the latter N52E134 poles crossing a branch of the Hawksbill to a chestnut & chestnut oak on the South side of the Road which leads from Honourias Powells to Nicholas Baughers at B thence along the South edge of sd. Road up the mountain 122 poles to C to three chestnut oaks on a line of the land the sd. deceased purchased of James Meadows and with the same S66E50 poles to D a red oak and locust, thence S10W30 poles to E a chestnut oak and hickory corner to Samuel G. Baughers land and with his line S41 1/2W200 poles crossing the branch again to F said Marshalls and Davises line & with the same N18W196 poles to the Beginning; containing 170 acres. This survey was attended by the Plaintiff, and by Jarrard Powell for the defendants, and it was admitted by them, that the above boundary embraces the land described in the Plaintiffs Bill, all of which is respectfully submitted.
Joseph Mauzy, Sept. 14th, 1833
Fee for Surveying, ploting and calculating} $7.50Ó

Following two documents from: Abstracts of Executor, Administrator, and Guardian Bonds of Rockingham County Virginia 1778-1864 Compiled by Marguerite B. Priode

ADMINISTRATION BONDS c.t.a. 1818-18164
1855 Sept. 17 Shiflett, Thomas Robert M. Mooney, cta $300 George Brill
page 19 (see Shiflet and variant spellings page 74)

GUARDIAN BONDS 1852-1864

Date	Parent	Orphan	Guardian	Bond	Bondsman
1860 Nov. 20	Shifflett, Kerrnell	White, Eve, Mary	David Gilmore	$400	John N. Hill

page 75 (see page 152M of Shiflet and variant spellings)

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