BEGATS AND BEQUEATHALS

Or, Subtitled: “Conducted to the Whipping Poſt, and there to receive on his bare Back thirty nine Laſshes”

This posting continues the discussion of the last posting of records tracking records of John Lauderdale (1745 – 1830/1840) in Georgia and South Carolina to 1790. As a previous posting notes, not long after John relocated his family from Georgia to South Carolina, he appears in Pendleton County court records on 9 August 1790 — the day before he sold his Franklin County, Georgia, bounty land to Christopher Williman — charged by the state with petty larceny.[1] The charge was sent to the Pendleton grand jury on this date, and a true bill was recorded.[2] John and his bondsmen Daniel Stringer and Jonathan Watson then came into court and gave bond for £100 pounds.[3] On 8 November a capias was issued to compel him to appear in court to answer the charge.[4]