Subject: 28 April 1758 Petition, Pedee in Craven County
Resent-Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 15:12:37 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 18:15:11 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

Friday the 28th of April 1758.

"...Read also a Petition of the Inhabitants of Pedee in Craven County Setting
forth as Viz.

That your Petitioners finding themselves under the Necessity of Praying a
division of Craven County, it being So Exstensive that the Greater part of the
Inhabitants are often put to Expence and trouble to attend the affairs of said
County, Where their appearance is requisite, which is very prejudicial,
Especially to the frontiers which Lies Exposed to the Insult of the Heathen &
Fugative Vagabonds. And as there is a Great Charge & Burthen on the Several
Frontiers Settlements of this Province by being Obliged to repair from the
Several distant parts of this Province to Charlestown for the tryal of Civil
Causes, which is of very pernitious Consequence, as few Estates in the Frontiers
are of ability to Support the Great Expence attending such a Journey, as well as
the Expence of Suit, the Dread of Which Occasions Several to Loose their Debts
rather than hazard their Interests, besides other Evident risques attending, and
as there is a Law provided for reddressing Such Grievance, which Law passed in
the Time of the administration of Governor Nicholson in the Year 1721, Which Act
is perpetual, as also an Additional Act passed 1722[/23] which we Pray may be
put in Execution.

Also as the Ignorance which Divers Labour under, as to knowledge of the Laws, of
this Province, which Occasions Great frauds and often rong Judgement is
Sustained in the tryall of Causes Cognizable before a Private Magistrate, which
Occasions Severall to put up with Considerable Losses, as being incapable of
Rectifying mistakes of that Nature, for want of a Corrected and Revised
Collections of the Laws, Printed for the use of those who are not Learned in the
Laws. And as we Conceive the Printing of the Laws of the Province, would be of
Great Service, if done in a Commodious Volume and Induce Several to purchase
them which now they cannot, they being disper'd in Several Small Tracts, We
humbly pray that the above, which we presume to Lay before you for your
Consideration thereon, may meet with your Approbation, and grant thereof, as it
will be an Effectual means to remove the Great difficulties which we now Labour
under, and prevent the Growth of Contentious and Litigious Suits, which Would
promote a harmony in our frontiers; We Submit the whole to your Appointment, as
your's in your Wisdom Shall See fit, not Doubting but You'll Consult the Good of
your Petitioners, for Which Great Service we Shall As in Duty bound for Ever
Pray.

Ordered that the Said Petitions be referred to the Consideration of a Committee
& that they do Examine the Matter thereof & report the same with their Opinion
thereupon to the [House].

And they are referred to Mr. Lynch, Mr. Trapier, Mr. John Crawford, Mr. Cantey,
Mr. Poole, Mr. Mazyck, Mr. John Waties...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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