DEADBEAT SILVERSMITH IN SOUTH CAROLINA.


PARSONS, JAMES. 1724-1779. Autograph Document Signed ("Jas. Parsons"), being a petition before the South Carolina Court of Common Pleas, 1 p, folio (325 x 204 mm), Charleston, filed August 13, 1753, also signed by Judge JOHN LINING (1708-1760), leaf creased and toned, mild separation at folds.Parsons files this petition on behalf of his client Robert Hamilton, who is owed £50 by James Rutherford, "late of Charleston also Silver Smith ... [who] has departed this Province without making your Petr any satisfaction for the same." As Rutherford has left goods and chattels behind, Hamilton would like to seize them to pay the debt. Parsons was a successful Irish attorney who immigrated to South Carolina and served in the Royal Assembly from 1753-54; Lining was a physician and a scientist who also served as a justice of the court of general sessions and the court of common pleas.