Nina Postupack, County Clerk

Writ of Capius (Arrest Warrant), 1786

Transcription:

Ulster County, ss, THE PEOPLE of the State of NEW-YORK, By the Grace of GOD, Free and Independent, To our Sheriff of our County of Ulster, GREETING: We command You, That you take Henry Parselour __________________________________
if he shall be found within your Bailiwic, and him safely keep, so that You may have his Body before our Judges and Justices at our Inferior Court of Common Pleas, which is to be held at Kingston, in and for our said County of Ulster, on the third Tuesday in September next, to answer unto John Delametter the younger of a plea of Trespass on the Case to his damage Thirty Five pounds as is said __________________________________
and have you then there this Writ. WITNESS Dirck WynKoop Esquire, Judge of our said Court, at Kingston, the Eighth Day of July____ in the Eleventh__ Year of our Independence, Anno Domini, 1786

C.E.Jun. Elmendorf Atty. Pr.Cur Clinton Clk

Ulster Com pleas
John Delametter Jun.
Vs
Henry Parselour

Capius
Case
£ 35

I have Taken the Body
Egbert Dumond Sheriff

From the Court of Common Pleas is this Writ of Capius, shown here front and back ordering Sheriff Egbert Dumond to arrest Henry Parselour, who has been charged by John Delametter Junior with trespass. Also showing is the signature of "Clinton Clerk", none other than George Clinton. George Clinton, lawyer, Briagdier-General of the Revolutionary War, first Governor of the State of New York, and former Vice President of the United States, held the Office of Ulster County Clerk from 1759 to 1812. As such, his distinctive signature appears on many documents.

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