Judgment Rolls, 1791-1904

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Country: US
Name of institution (official language of the state): South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Language of name of institution: eng
Contact information: postal address: 8301 Parklane Road, Columbia, SC 29223
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Contact information: web address: https://scdah.sc.gov/
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Reference number: L 10018
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (official language of the state): Judgment Rolls, 1791-1904
Language of title: eng
Creator / accumulator: Court of Common Pleas (Charleston County)
Date(s): 1791/1904
Language(s): eng
Extent: 331.84 linear metres
Type of material: Textual Material
Scope and content: This series is part of the Court of Common Pleas records for Charleston County and comprises the original papers of record in each civil suit in which the judgment is signed. It generally includes declarations, answers, orders, summonses and complaints, bonds, affidavits, executions, assignments, judgments, taxation of costs, notices of appeal, and appeals court orders. Information consists of the names of plaintiffs, defendants, and attorneys; the nature of the suit; and the final judgment.
Some of these records relate to Sephardic Jews, such as David Sarzedas (e.g., 1785, 122A: vs William Broun, 1785; 1797, 218A: vs Isaac Elizer, December 22, 1797; 1789, 40A: vs William Ross and George Ross, November 1789; 1800, 144A: with his wife Sarah Sarzedas, against Isaac Dacosta, June 14, 1800), Moses Sarzedas (e.g., 1795, 411A: vs Samuel Beekman, April 29, 1795; 1795, 444A: vs Edward Blake and John Blake, indorsees of Aaron Lopez, March 23, 1795), Joseph Lopez (e.g., 1803, 668A: vs Robert Smith and Thomas Shubrick, executors of Thomas Shubrick, November 6, 1803), John Charles Lucena (e.g., 1798, 1070A: his company Lucena and Crawford vs Thayers and Sturgis, March 26, 1798), Isaac da Costa (e.g., 1792, 232A: vs Michael John Harris and Joseph Blackford, March 19, 1792), Isaac Motta (e.g., 1797, 522A: vs Benjamin Booth and Reyne Laporte, September 7, 1797), and Francis Salvador (e.g. 1799, 222A: by Patrick Duncan, administrator of his estate, against Joseph Dacosta, executor of Joseph Salvador's will, September 23, 1799).
The content of this series is searchable by name, place, year, etc., through the South Carolina Department of Archives and History Record and Image Search online platform.; (source: South Carolina Archives Series Description)
Administrative / Biographical history: Although the Circuit Court Act of 1769 at long last provided for courts sitting outside Charleston, all writs and other processes triable in these courts had to issue from and be returnable to the Court of Common Pleas in Charleston. South Carolina Statute 1789 (7) 253 gave the circuit courts full original and final jurisdiction. Because the Judgment Rolls prior to 1791 include more than just the cases of the Charleston District Court, they have been catalogued with the predecessor series, the Judgment Rolls of the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, 1703-1790. South Carolina Statute 1839 (11) 76 standardised recordkeeping in the Court of Common Pleas.; (source: South Carolina Archives Series Description)
Access points: locations: Charleston, South Carolina (USA)
Access points: persons, families: Costa, Isaac da; Costa, Joseph da; Lopez, Aaron; Lopez, Joseph; Lucena, John Charles; Motta, Isaac; Salvador, Francis; Salvador, Joseph; Sarzedas, David; Sarzedas, Moses
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in North America; Land; Legal matters; Trade and commerce; 18th century; 19th century
Access points: document types: Legal records
System of arrangement: All papers relating to a particular case are filed in one bundle or "roll." Records from 1791 to 1839 are arranged by year and, thereunder, by an arbitrary modern number assigned by the repository. Records from 1840 to 1900 are arranged by contemporary roll numbers. Eleven archive boxes of judgment rolls for St. Paul's Parish, 1875-1904, are arranged in a separate roll number sequence.
Finding aids: Plaintiffs' and defendants' names, 1791-1839, are indexed in the repository's On-line Combined Index to Multiple Record Series, 1675-1929, and are also included in the Combined Alphabetical Index produced by the repository on computer output microfilm (COM) in 1991.
Defendant indexes, 1821-1869, and plaintiff indexes, 1840-1861, are available in manuscript in the repository. Defendant indexes, 1879-1901, are available on microfilm produced by the repository. The repository also holds a manuscript plaintiff index to the St. Paul's Parish cases, 1875-1904.
Links to finding aids: South Carolina Archives. Series Description; South Carolina Department of Archives and History Record and Image Search
Existence and location of copies: Jews of Charleston, South Carolina Collection
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2023

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