Chesterfield District-Grand Jury Presentments, 1826

                                                         1826-2-01
We the grand Jury for Chesterfield district for Spring term of 1826 Present the lamentable circumstances Of the rising generation growing up in idlenefs and dissipation Almost invariably. Free schools placed at convenient places For them to attend and their education neglected and that, Too by their mothers. Male between twelve and twenty if Bound to trade and properly educated would serve to make Good members of society of many who are now and ought to be vagranted.
Wm H. Fleming, foreman}         John Brown
Wm McBride}                           Duncan Campbell
John Aorman}                          George Parker
John Gullage}                          Richard Knight
John Martin}                            Wm Perdue
John Campbell, Sen.}               John McLean
Rilah Smith}                             Hardy Sellers, Sen.
John Crowley}                          Math.  Sellers
Edward Edwards}                      John Jones
Emphraim Lunsford}
Duncan McIntyre}
                                                 True copy of the minutes
                                                   of the Court
                                                            John Craig, Clerk   

       Hardy Sellers is my 5th Great Grandfather. 

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The ampersand is used in 3 placers in this document and I have substituted "and" in place of the ampersand because Blogger does not play well with the ampersand.  .
[1] State of South Carolina, "Grand Jury Presentments, 1826," Document, South Carolina Archives & History - Database Search (http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/search.aspx : viewed & transcribed 20 January 2015), Chesterfield District-Grand Jury Presentments, 1826; Hardy Sellers, Sr one of the signers.