Declaration Of Independence Signer Thomas Heyward Jr Signs Early American Writ Of Attachment

THOMAS HEYWARD JR (1746-1809). Thomas Heyward Jr. was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. He was a Founding Father, lawyer, jurist, and politician who represented South Carolina in the Continental Congress. He is proclaimed to be a martyr of the revolution due to his year long imprisonment by the British.DS. 1pg. August 14, 1787. South Carolina. A court document signed Tho Heyward Jun during his time as a judge. To all and singular the Sheriffs of the said State, GREETING: You, and each of you, are hereby commanded, without Delay, to attach the Bodies of William Bellamy and Esther his wife lately otherwise called Esther Baker of Charlestown widow wheresoever they may be found, within your and each of your respective Districts, so that you compel them to be and appear before the Justices of the said State, at the Court of Common Pleas, to be holden at Charleston, on the Second Tuesday in September next, to answer to John Dawson whom one Richard Walter he hath survived lately otherwise in the lifetime of the said Richard called John Dawson & Richard Walter of Charlestown in the late Province now State aforesaid Merchants of a Plea that they Render to him Four hundred & Sixty Eight Pounds four Shillings & Eight Pence good & Lawful money of the said Late Province now State which to him they owe and from him unjustly detain and so forth And have you then and there this Writ. WITNESS the honorable Thomas Heyward Junr Esquire one of the Justices at Charleston, the fourteenth Day of August in the Year of our Lord, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Eighty-Seven and in the Twelfth Year of the Sovereignty and Independence of the United States of America. J Ward Att. This document is an early American legal writ of attachment. The writ is issued against William Bellamy and his wife, Esther, by a merchant named John Dawson, who is the surviving business partner of a firm previously called John Dawson & Richard Walter. Dawson is suing the Bellamys for a debt of 468 pounds, 4 shillings, and 8 pence which they allegedly owe and are unjustly detaining. This document is professionally framed and in very fine condition with dark ink.