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Grand Jury Writ of Venire
July 1811



 

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Writ of Venire
July Term 1811

filed 26th July 1811

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Territory of Louisiana
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Sct the United States of america to the Sheriff of the District of Arkansas.
Greeting—

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District of Arkansas


 

 

We command you cause to come before our Judges assigned to keep the peace and to hear and Determine divers Felonies trespasses and other misdemeanors in the said District committed at a court of quarter Sessions of the peace to be holden at the Town of Arkansas in and for the District of Arkansas on the fifth Monday of July (Instant) twenty four good and lawfull men of your District to enquire & present on behalf of the United States for the body of the District of Arkansas, and to do and perform all and singularly those things which shall then and there be enjoined by the law of the Country also, give Notice to the Several Justices of the Peace and Coroners of said District to be then and there with their records, rolls and recognizances and other remembrances that the said court may proceed thereon and have you then there this Writ of Venire.

Witness the honorable Francois Vaugine Esq. presiding Judge of our said Court at the town of Arkansas aforesaid this tenth day of July in the Year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Eleven and of the Independence the thirty Sixth

P Cassidy Clk

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To the Judges of the court within named, I do return that I have summonsed twenty four good & lawfull men of my District, whose names here follow,-and the rest of the orders I followed as directed

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1 Saml Moseley

2 Jas Scull

3 Jno Hendry

4 Louis Bougy

5 Francis Mitchel

6 Jno Jardelas

7 Alex Jardelas

8 Jno Larkey

9 Saml Lemon

10 J B Dereaussau

11 Joseph Dereaussau

12 Chn. Pringle

13 Chr. Kauffman

14 Tanas Racine

15 Harold Stilwell

16 Saml Carter

17 Benj Ross

18 Asher Bassey

19 Jno D Chisholm

20 Curtis Wilborn

21 John Cornwell

22 Jacob Barkman

23 Anthony Wolf

24 Saml Gates

Writ of Venire

July Term 1811

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