Various
Excerpts
from
Court
Minute Book
1836
- 1844, Volume A
May 1836
Page 4
Ordered
by the Court that the following named persons be appointed Commissioners for
the Town of
Page 10
Ordered that John Byron be appointed Overseer of the Dyersburg road from
Hurricane Hill to Cane Creek bridge and that he have the following hands to
work under him, To Wit, six or half of the hands belonging to Mrs. Anthony,
John Stone and hands, Robert West, Joseph Taylor, John Rudder, Ruddger B. Giffy, Lawson Murry, W. H. Stone, W. H. McCarrol,
William Laird, John Land, David Reynolds, David Lofton, S. Malone, J. Peterson,
J. Reaves, W. Reaves, Roger L. Byron hands and James Morman
and hands.
Page 12
Ordered by the Court the
following good and lawful men be appointed a jury of men to straighten the road
leading from Buck's Ferry to Stokes Landing, To Wit, Isaac D. Maxwell, Samuel
Lusk, Eluathan H. Condry,
William R. Ledbetter, Alfred Byler and Dickinson Jennings.
May 1836
This day Rezin L. Byron,
Robert C. Campbell, Henry R. Crawford and Hiram C. Keller, the Commissioner for
the town of
Page 15
The court then proceeded to
elect a County Surveyor for Lauderdale County and upon counting the votes, Able
H. Pope received the highest number of votes, whereupon he came into court with
John C. Bain, Rezin L. Byron, Samuel V. Gilliland, Thomas D. Fisher and Hiram
C. Keller, his securities and entered into bond conditioned and payable as the
law directs and took the oaths of office.
Page 19
The Court proceeded to
appoint commissioners to let out and superintend the building of a temporary
court house in the town of
Page 20
Ordered by the Court that
the following good and lawful men be appointed a jury of view to lay off and
mark out the nearest and best route for a road leading from Ripley to the
Haywood county line in a direction to Brownsville and that they report to the
next term of this court (to wit) Rezin L. Byron, Isaac D. Maxwell, Richard Reaves, James A.
Morris, Robert Walker, Claton Harris and John F.
Burke, a majority can act.
Page 22
This day the jury of view
appointed at the last time of this court to view mark and lay off the nearest
and best way for a road leading from Ripley to the County line in a direction
of Brownsville, present here in court a report the result of said view which
report is in the following words.........Given under our hands the date above
written, Rezin L. Byron, Claton C. Harris, John
F. Burk, I. A. Morris, Isaac D. Maxwell.
Page 25
Ordered by the Court that Rezin L. Byron,
Nicky Reaves and Samuel Land be and they are hereby
appointed Commissioners to lay off Jehugh Innman's widow her dower and that report to this court.
August 1836
Page 37
Ordered by the court a
majority being present that Joseph Taylor be appointed Overseer to cut out the
road from Ripley to the county line in a direction to Brownsville as far as the
west part of John stone's farm and that he have all the hands that work under John Byron to cut out the same and put it in repair as a
second class road.
Page 39
This day Rezin L. Byron
one of town commissioners for the town of
Page 43
Ordered by the court that
the following good and lawful men be appointed Jurors of review to lay off and
mark out the nearest and best way for a road from Ripley in a direction to
Fulton and that they report to the next term of this court (to wit) Rezin L. Byron,
Hiram C. Keller, James Whitson, James Sherman, A. B. Gaines, Levi Gardner and
Lewis Mathews.
Ordered by the court that
the following good and lawful men be appointed Jurors of view to lay off and
mark out the nearest and best way for a road from Ripley to Fullen's
Ferry towards Covington and they report to the next term of this court (to wit)
Rezin L. Byron, Thomas Fitzpatrick, David c. Russell, Emri Keller, Joseph Wardlow,
Milton Turner and John Fullen.
Ordered by the court that
John Stone, Rezin L. Byron and Robert P. Russell be appointed commissioners
to lay off to the widow of Stephen J. Blackwell dec'd a years provisions and that they report to the next
term of this court.
Page 46
Ordered
by the court that Rezin L. Byron, Hiram C. Keller and James Whitson be appointed
commissioners for the year 1836 to settle with the officers of
This day Levina Linnville came into court and pray
the court that Pleasant G. Davenport be appointed her guardian which granted he
having entered into bond conditioned and payable as the law directs.
Page 52
Ordered by the court that
the following good and lawful men be appointed a jury of view to lay off and
mark out a road from Ripley to intersect the Ashport
road east of Whitson bridge on Cane Creek and that they report to the next term
of this court (to wit) R. L. Byron,
Isaac Braden, William P. Gaines, William Nash and Ellison P. Fuller.
January 1837
Page 72
This day Rezin L. Byron,
Hiram C. Keller, Henry H. Crawford and Griffith L. Rutherford, Commissioners
for the town of
Page 77
Rezin L. Byron, Hiram C. Keller
and Milton G. Turner, Esqs., Commissioners to let out and superintend the building of
a court house in the town of
Page 88
It is ordered that Jerry
Cheek be appointed Overseer of the Ripley road from the north of the lane at Rezin L. Byron's
old place and work to the Brownsville road at John F. Burks and that he have
all the hands that live in the following described bounds........
Page 96
Ordered by the court that
the following good and lawful men be appointed a jury of view to change the old
road leading from
Ordered that Rezin L. Byron,
Dabney P. Phillips and James J. Crawford be appointed
commissioners of the internal improvement fund for the
Page 160
Ordered that James A.
Morris Overseer of the road from Ripley to the Haywood county line have the
following hands to work under him (to wit) John B. Byron,
William Hafford, David Walker, Lancy
Graves, John Laird, Isaac Pittman, Jerry Cheek, David Reynolds and William
Laird and that he keep the same in repair as a second class road.
Page 168
Ordered
by the court there being a majority of all the Justices in said county being
present and voting in the affirmation that Rezin L. Byron,
William Turner, Abel H. Pope, Henry Rutherford, and R. C. Campbell be appointed
commissioners to reorganize the civil districts in said county and report to
the July term of the court.
Page 176
It is ordered that the
following good and lawful men of the body of the county of Lauderdale be
summoned as jurors for the next term of the circuit court for Lauderdale
county.......William Turner, Sampson Smith, John S. Atkinson, and Samuel V.
Gilliland for the first district; William McClelland, John Thompson, Rezin L. Byron,
Isaac D. Maxwell, James Price and Isaac J. Pinion for the second district;
........and that A. G. W. Byron and William Cleaver
be appointed constables to wait on the court and jury.
Page 180
It is ordered by the court
that H. C. Keller and Rezin L. Byron the commissioners of the county revenue be paid
out of money in the hands of the trustee not otherwise appropriated the sum of
ten dollars for sitting with the trustee of said county for the year 1836 and
1837.
January 1839
Page 204
It is ordered by the court
there being a majority of all the Justices in said county present that
following good and lawful men be appointed a jury of view to examine the road
leading from Ripley towards Brownsville ........Jerry Cheek, Joseph Wardlow, R. S. Byron, J.
M. C. Robertson and John Chapman.
Page 208
This day Pleasant G.
Davenport, guardian for Sevina Linvelle returned into court the
amount of money received by him for said ward which is received and ordered to
be recorded.
Page 213
Ordered
that A. S. Martin and Ranson H. Byron be released from the payment of the double tax on
640 acres of land in the seventh civil district of Lauderdale County for the
year 1839.
Page 216
It is ordered that the
following good and lawful men be appointed a jury to view to examine the road
leading Ripley towards
Page 220
It is ordered that the
following good and lawful men be appointed jurors......
A. G. W. Byron and Frederick Barfield constables to wait
on the court and jury.
It is ordered that Samuel
V. Gilliland, John H. Maxwell, J. M. C. Roberston,
R. L.
Byron
and A. H. Pope be appointed commissioners to draft a
plan for log jail in said county and report to the June term of this court and
if said plan is received let out the building of the same.
Page 224
It is ordered that William Hafford be appointed Overseer of the road from Ripley to
the county line near Champ Connor in the place of James A. Morris and that he
have the following hands.......James A. Morris, John B.
Byron, David Walker, Lancy Graves, John
Laird, Jerry Cheek, David Reynolds and that he keep the same in repair as a
second class road.
Page 230
........A. G. W. Byron and Frederick Barfield, constables to wait on
the court and jury.
August 1839
Page 239
Ordered that Nathaniel W.
Barnes be appointed Overseer of the road from Joseph Curries to Silvertooth ferry on Hatchie and
that he have the following hands (to wit) James Wardlow,
William H. Fisher, Nancy Fisher's hands, Alex Wardlow,
A. J. Fullen, John Fullen,
Judge B. Mosley, Isaac Fullen, Henry T. Chism, P. G.
Gaines, and hands, James Watson, P. G. Davenport, Martin Norman, Z. Norman,
Richard Golden, William Flinn, John Albison and son, George S. Johnson and hands, Jacob Linville and Jonathan Osment
and that he keep the same in repair as a first class road.
Page 260
It is ordered that Rezin L. Byron,
David P. Posey and John Stone be appointed commissioners to divide the estate
of Samuel Ruddger, dec'd
and lay off and divide said estates between John W. Rudder and Elizabeth Rudder
and report to the next term of the court.
Page 277
This day A. G. W. Byrn, Samuel Thompson, Henry F. Rutherford and Joshua
Wright presented in open court certificate of their election to the office of
constables for said county from John C. Barnes, sheriff and entered into bond
conditioned and payable as the law directs and took the several oaths
prescribed by law.
Page 279
It is ordered by the court
that the following good and lawful men be appointed a jury to view (to wit)
Joseph Taylor, R. L. Byrn, John Stone, Samuel
Dunlap, P. C. Dyal, William H. Stone and Robert
Walker...
Page 296
This day Joseph Taylor, R. L. Byrn, John Stone, Samuel Dunlap and P. C. Dyal who were appointed a jury of view at the April term of
this court ..................
Page 297
This day Samuel V.
Gilliland, Rezin L. Byrn, J. R. Stone, John Buchanan and C. Watson who were
appointed a jury of view at the April term.....................
Sept 1840
Page 318
It appearing to the
satisfaction of the court that Jeremiah Cotter has died leaving no will and Absolum G. W. Byrn
having applied for letters of administration on said estate and the court being
satisfied as to his claim to the said administration and he having entered into
bond conditioned and payable as the law directs and took the oath of
Administrator accordingly.
Page 320
This day the court
proceeded to appoint judges and clerks for the several precincts of
For second district R. L. Byrn...........
Page 321
Ordered that the following
good and lawful men of the
November 1840
Page 324
This day A. G. W. Byrn, administrator of the estate of Jeremiah
Cotter dec'd returned his inventory of said estate
upon oath which is received and ordered to be recorded.
Page 347
Ordered that the following
good and lawful men of the body of the County of Lauderdale be summoned as
jurors for the next term of the circuit court to be held for the County of
Lauderdale on the first Monday in June (to wit) David A. Bradford, Edmond
Fitzpatrick, John P. Rice, Richard W. Green, John F. Jett, Robert C. Campbell,
James Whitson, William Lunsford, Thomas J.
Childress, Elijah Lake, Ellison P. Fuller, David C. Russell, John Vassor, Henry Willard, John Fletcher, James H. Hogsette, Eli Coble, Benjamin Nearn,
James Long, Elnathan H. Condray,
Henry Crihfield, Jr., John W. Nearn,
Samuel Strickland, James A. Freeman and Henry Pitts, Sr., and Samuel Thompson
and Robert H. Hamil, Constables to wait on the court
and jury.
This day the court
proceeded to appoint five Trustees of the Ripley Academy according to the
Statute in such case made and provided whereupon the following men were
appointed that is to say James L. Green, Stith
Richardson, Griffith L. Rutherford, Rezin L. Byrn and Isaac M. Steele.
Page 359
It appearing to the
satisfaction of the court that Mary Graves, alias Mary Young has died leaving
no will and Lance Graves having applied for letters of administration and the
court being satisfied with his claim to the administration and he and his
securities, Rezin L. Byrn and Absolam G. W. Byrn having
entered into bond and conditioned and payable as the law directs and he having
took the oath of administration according to law. It is therefore ordered that he have letters
of administration accordingly.
Page 363
Ordered that the following
good and lawful men of the body of the County of Lauderdale be summoned as
jurors for the next term of the circuit clerk.......Pleasant C. Dial, Smith
Kent, Jeremiah Penick, Joseph Currie, Rezin L. Byrn,
John B. Byrn, Isaac D. Maxwell,
Jonathan L. Hearing, John Watson, Jr., Archer Phillips, David P. Posey, William
Strain, Nathaniel w. Barnes, Sugar T. Evans, James E. Givins,
James Hubbard, Armstead Wood, Roberson Meadows, Henry Shearer, Willi
Dodd, Zachariah Mitchell, Henry Sumrow, Edmund
Wright, Richard Parr and John Soward. ....Samuel Thompson and Frederick Barfield
constables...
Page 366
Ordered
by the court that Rezin L. Byrn, William Connor and Robert C. Campbell, Esqs. be appointed commissioners to make division
of five slaves belonging to the estate of Mary A. Graves, Alias Mary A. Young
between Lancy Graves and the heirs of William P.
Young and that they report to the October term of this court.
This day G. L. Rutherford,
sheriff and collector of the public taxes for Lauderdale County presented in
open court upon oath the following statement of removals from the county off of
whom he could not collect the tax (to wit)
Neill
McLeod 1 poll left the county $.25
Page 375
Ordered by the court there
being a majority of all the Justices of said county present and voting in the
affirmative that Jessie Ledbetter be paid eighty four dollars by the Trustee
out of any monies in his hands not otherwise appropriated for building a bridge
across Cane Creek on the road from Ripley to Isaac Moore.
This day Jessie Ledbetter
came into court and entered into bond with William R. Ledbetter, Drewry Masey and Calvin F. Ledbetter, his securities in the penal cum of one
hundred and sixty dollars conditioned for the keeping in good repair a bridge
built by him across Cane Creek on the road from Ripley to Isaac Moore
for the space of five years from the fifth day of October 1841, which was
acknowledged in open court and ordered to be received and recorded.
Page 412
It is ordered by the court
that Rezin L. Byrn, Esq., Revenue Commissioner be paid two dollars and
fifty cents by the
Page 416
Whereas the clerk has
reported to this court that H. A. G. Lee one of the securities of William D.
Lee, Guardian of Malvina A. Marley and Josiah C. Marley orphan
and minor heirs of Adam Marley and Susan C. Marley has died. It is therefore ordered by the court issue a
notice directed to the sheriff of this County commanding him to notify the said
William D. Lee ten days before the next term of this court to be and appear in
this court on the first Monday in February next then and there to give new and
counter security in place of the said H. A. G. Lee, deceased or deliver up the
said estate.
Page 482
Ordered that Rezin L. Byrn,
Treasurer of the Commissioners of the Town of Ripley be allowed to return as
compensation for his services Three per centum on all monies received and three
per centum on all monies paid out the, ayes, for said Allowance were Alexander,
Childress, Condray, green, Ledbetter, Maxwell, Pope,
Peyton, and Rice, Noes, none.
Page 486-487
Ordered that James W.
Reynolds be appointed overseer of the road from Ripley towards Dyersburg in
place of William Lunsford and that he have the
following hands to work under him - (To Wit) - Guilford Jones and hands,
William Inman, Damon Thomas Millsapp, George Millsapp, John H. Maxwell and hands, John J. Nelson and
hands, William Lunsford and hands, Alfred Denny, Nicholas Reynolds, Walter Caruth, William Caruth and Armstead B. Nealy and that he
work from Ripley to the North Bank of Caruth's Creek
and that he keep the same in repair as a first class road.
Page 513
Ordered by the court that Rezin L. Byrn,
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