From
the Recognizance Document:
State
of Tennessee
Knox County
Be it
remembered that on the twentieth day of January (? month
unclear) 1798 came before me a Joseph Greer one of the Justices
of the Peace for said county, aforesaid David Hasting and Daniel
Hasting & John Miller. Of the same county Hastons who
acknowledged being themselves indebted to the State in the sum
of one hundred dollars to wit David Haston in the sum of fifty
dollars and the said Daniel Hasting an John Miller in the sum of
twenty five dollars each to be ___ out of their respective goods
and chattels lands and tenements to the use of the State.
The
condition of the above recognizance is such that if the above
named David Hasting is and shall make his personal appearance
before the Justices of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Session to
___ for the County of Knox in the second Monday of April next
then and there to answer to the State for and concerning the
maiming and wounding of two cows the property of Nath’ Hays
and to do and suffer what shall be then and there __ enjoining
him and shall not depart without leaves of the said court then
the above recognizance to be void otherwise to remain in ___ and
___.
Acknowledged
before me
Joseph Greer
Moses
Roddy and Wm Haslet, Sr and Wm Haslet Jr acknowledged themselves
bound in the sum of fifty dollars each to vow that they make
their appearance before the Court and give testimony on behalf
of the state against David Hasting for the crime on which he ___
bound in the above recognizance.
Acknowledged
before me
Joseph Greer
From
the Court Narration:
The
Grand Juror for the State of Tennessee and the County of Knox on
their oath do present and say that David Haston and Joseph
Haston late of the said County of Knox
Laboreres – on the Eighteenth day of December in the
year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninty seven at
Knox in the County aforesaid with force and arms a trespass did
commit and then and there did cut of the tails of two of the
horned cattle of the property of a certain Nathaniel Hays then
and there being and in committing the said trespass did
otherwise injure and hurt the said two horned cattle the
property of the said Nathaniel Hays and to they the said David
Haston and Joseph Haston did commit the said trespass as
aforesaid in manner as aforesaid to the great injury of him the
said Nathaniel Hays as ill example to all such ___ and against
the peace and dignity of the State of Tennessee.
John
Rhea
Solicitor
for Knox County
Reverse
side of this document:
We
find that David Haston is guilty as charged in this bill of
indictment
Joseph
Haston is not guilty
Wm
Lea, forman
| Note 1: Moses Roddy married
Sarah Hays on August 16, 1800 in Green County, TN.
Did Moses Roddy later marry a daughter of this Nathaniel
Hays? Note 2: This is the Nathaniel Hays who sold his
Middle Tennessee land to Andrew Jackson - the land that
became Jackson's Hermitage Plantation.
"Located twelve miles east of downtown
Nashville, the land on which The Hermitage sits was
originally a 640-acre cotton plantation owned by
Nathaniel Hays, a close friend of Andrew Jackson and
his wife, Rachel. Hays sold the property to Jackson for
$3,400 in July of 1804, and the Jacksons moved into the
original two-story log farmhouse that August."
Source:
RobinsonLibrary.com |
From
Paper Listing Court Costs:
-
William
Haslet & William Haslet, Jr. were paid for being court
witnesses for three days.
-
David
Haston was fined $5.00.
Source: State vs David Haston & Joseph Haston; Knox Co, TN
County Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions; Docket # 796/65
(1798).
