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MANUSCRIPT COURT DOCUMENT: IN THE MATTER OF LANDS OF CALEB WILLIAMS SOLD TO COL. JAMES SINKLER. 1. THE RENUNCIATION OF DOWER OF MRS. FOXWORTH WIFE OF JOSEPH FOXWORTH IS IMPROPERLY TAKEN ON THE DEED FROM JOSEPH FOXWORTH TO CALEB WILLIAMS MUST BE TAKEN ANEW. 2. THERE IS A JUDGMENT IN THE COMMON PLEAS AGAINST C.A. WILLIAMS ADV THE SO. CAROLINA RAIL ROAD COMPANY - 16 JUNE 1849 FOR $23.35. PERONNEAU'S & HAYNE DEFTS ATTY WHICH MUST BE SATISFIED 3. THERE IS A JUDGMENT AGAINST CALEB WILLIAMS SAME COURT SAME DATE FOR $337.02 PETIGRU & LESESNE PLTFFS ATTY WHICH MUST BE SATISFIED 4. MORTGAGES BY JOSEPH FOXWORTH TO CALEB WILLIAMS 1843 OPEN ON RECORD TO BE SATISFIED. / signed JAMES SIMONS FOR COL. JAMES SINKLER. 5 MAY 1852

1852Best.-Nr. 41046Charleston SC 1852. Folio folded to 7-1/2" x 9". 1 3 blank pp. Ink manuscript on first page only signed at end by James Simons. A title report concerning encumbrances on lands sold by Caleb Williams to Sinkler. Very Good. James Simons Sr. 1813-1879 was a lawyer South Carolina state legislator Speaker of the South Carolina House of Representatives and Confederate general in the Civil War. As a Brigadier General of the South Carolina Militia Fourth Infantry Brigade he led the first attack on Fort Sumter South Carolina on April 12 1861. Col. James Sinkler 1810-1854 was a farmer and member of the South Carolina House of Representatives. It is unclear where his military title originated possibly the local militia. Sinkler lived on the family plantation Wampee which was passed down by his father. At the time of the 1850 USFC Slave Schedules Sinkler owned 73 slaves. Caleb Williams died c. 1849 and Joseph Foxworth c.1799-1850 appear to have been farmers. Peronneau & Hayne was a Charleston law firm. The partners included: Henry W. Peronneau 1792-1859 a Charleston lawyer connected with the firms of Peronneau & Finley later Peronneau Mazyck & Finley and finally Peronneau & Hayne. He served as a member of the City Council Senior Warden of the South Carolina Society and President of the Charleston Bible Society. William Henry Peronneau 1823-1874 Henry's son was a lawyer served as secretary of the Blue Ridge Railroad and as president of the Washington Light Infantry Rifle Club of Charleston. Isaac William Hayne 1809-1880 who appears to have been Henry's cousin was Private Secretary and aid-de-camp to Governor Robert Y. Hayne in 1830 a local lawyer and judge and Attorney General of South Carolina in the late 1840s through the Civil War. unknown

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