Finding Aid for the Benjamin Lewis Summons, 1790 March 16
MS-2414 University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
Encoded by: Elizabeth Dunham, July 12, 2006.
Summary Information
Benjamin Lewis Summons
Date/Date Range : 1790 March 16
0.1 linear feet
Abstract: This March 16, 1790, summons informs Benjamin Lewis of Mecklenburg County, NC, of an upcoming meeting where he may cross examine witnesses in the case of Hezekiah Balch vs. P. Benjamin Lewis. A notice on the verso confirms that the message was conveyed to Lewis and his wife.
MS-2414
University of Tennessee Special Collections Library, Knoxville, TN
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[Identification of Item], Benjamin Lewis Summons, MS-2414. University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Special Collections Library.
Arrangement
Collection consists of a single folder.
Biography / History
No biographical information on Benjamin Lewis could be found.
Hezekiah Balch was one of the first Presbyterian ministers in Tennessee. He organized Greeneville College, the first school west of the Allegheny Mountains.
Collection Scope and Content Note
This March 16, 1790, summons informs Benjamin Lewis of Mecklenburg County, NC, of an upcoming meeting where he may cross examine witnesses in the case of Hezekiah Balch vs. P. Benjamin Lewis. A notice on the verso confirms that the message was conveyed to Lewis and his wife.
Subject Terms
- Justice, Administration of -- North Carolina.
- Court records -- North Carolina.
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Summons to Benjamin Lewis regarding case of Hezekiah Balch vs. Benjamin Lewis, 1790 March 16 Scope Note: Transcription of Document
Notice. Mr. Benjamin Lewis you are hereby notified to attend at the house of your near neighbor, John Davies, on Monday the 29th instant at 11 o'clock then and there to cross examine James Harris, Jonathan Harris, Reese Price, John Davies, Samuel Davies, James Meek, esp, Joseph Ross, and Joseph Teaser who is summoned then and there to give evidence in a matter of controversy in the superior court of Washington District pending wherein Hezekiah Balch is plaintiff and P. Benjamin Lewis is defendant. Give under our hands (in behalf of sd. Hezekiah Balch) this 16th day of March 1790.
Hezekiah Alexander
J. McAlexander
[Verso:] Mecklenburg County. Samuel Leeper deposeth that he was present and saw George Elliot Constable deliver to Benjamin Lewis's wife in her dwelling house on Thursday the 18th instant a notice word for word with the inclosed [sic] and George Elliot deposeth that he delivered her the said notice and in the evening of sd day he saw P. Benjamin going home and told him he had left sd notice with his wife at sd time shewed him the summonses for the sd men to meet the 29th instant. Sworn & signed to this 26th March 1790 before J. McAlexander.
Saml Preser
Geo. Elliott.
Notice to Mr. Benjamin Lewis
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