CHANCERY RECORDS GRAYSON COUNTY VIRGINIA
JAMES GIBSON VS JOHN KING ETC.
To the Worshipful court in Grayson in Chancery sitting Humbly complaining sheweth unto your Worships your Orator JAMES GIBSON that some time ago your Orator gave to THEOPH EVANS a note for L16.7.11 North Carolina Currency which note the said Th Evans assigned to one JOHN KING who bargained and sold the same to one AMBROSE COLLINS but did not assign it over. Your Orator saith that understanding the note was sold to Collins he paid up the said Collins a horse a bridle and two dollars in discharge of the said note. Your Orator begs leave to state further that seeing King ...... before he made payment the said King told him that King had no thing more to do with your Orator but look'd to Collins & told your Orator to make payment to Collins and your Orator did it accordingly.
From the circumstances above detailed your Orator had no doubt but that he was fairly discharged of that debt which he had fully paid and it was with surpirze he found a writ placed? against him by King for the same debt.
Owing to your Orators being unacquainted with legal forms an office Judgement passed against him and an execution is issued against his body & he is taken and is about to be committed to the house of confinement.
Your Orator has also to complain of an error committed that would operate to his injury if the debt was just in _____ ____ Carolina currency equal to __ Virginia currency. Whereas __ NC curcy is only equal to __ V curcy.
All which acting and doing are contrary to the spirit of equal right and justice and lend to your Orators oppression.
In tender consideration whereof he prays the said KING & AMBROSE COLLINS may be Dfts to this bill and may ___ and perfect answer make to the matters herein contained as fully as if they were herein repeated as interagatorys and that the said Judgement shall be injoined and equitable relief granted.
May it please your W__ to grant ______
Sworn to in open Court August term AD 1798
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Know all men by these presents that we JORDAN GIBSON and GEORGE GIBSON are held and firmly bound unto JOHN KING in the sum of Twenty seven pounds __ __ which payment well and truly made to the said JOHN KING his Heirs executor and administrators we bind ourselves our ____ ____ Adm jointly firmly severally by these presents seated with our seals and dated this 30th day of August 1798 the condition of the above obligation is such that whereas the above JORDAN GIBSON hath obtained an Injunction to stay the preceding on a Judgement obtained at our March Court last past by the said John King __ against the said Gorden Gibson on a writ for the sum of twelve pounds five shillings and /__ with interest and cash. Now if the said Gorden Gibson shall will and truly pay and satisfy such sums of money as the said KING has recovered by the said Judgement against the said Gibson or shall become due to said King by C____of said Judgement so staid and also shall pay and satisfy such costs as shall be awarded against him the said Gibson in case said Injunction shall be dissolved then the above obligation be C--- else to remain in full source power & virtue in law.
Signed Sealed in presents of Martin Dickenson
Gorden Gibson X Seal
George Gibson X Seal
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... survey made the 1st day of September 1799 by virtue of a Land Office Treasury Warrant No 11165 issued the 1st day of March 1782 there is granted by the said Common wealth unto JORDAN GIBSON a certain tract or parcel of land containing one hundred acres situate in the County of Grayson on the waters of Brush Creek, a branch of the New River.....
