Nov 20, 2014 - Sale 2367

Sale 2367 - Lot 18

Price Realized: $ 938
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
SIGNER ORDERS ARREST OF GOVERNOR'S SON HEYWARD, JR., THOMAS. Partly-printed Document Signed, "Tho Heyward Jr," a writ ordering the sheriff to bring to the Court of Common Pleas William Moultrie the younger to answer to "Schmidt & Molich of a Plea of Trespass on the case for certain Promises and Assumptions by the said William . . . made and not performed to their damage Four hundred Pounds Sterling money." Countersigned and accomplished by attorney J. Ward. 7 1/2x12 1/2 inches; vertical folds, docketing verso, paper seal intact. Charleston, 27 May 1788

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William Moultrie, Jr. (1752-1796), son of the SC Governor and Revolutionary War general of the same name, served as Captain in the SC 2nd Regiment during the Sieges of Savannah and Charleston.