A certificate of emancipation of a negro woman and a
negro man, named respectively, Patience and Scipio, belonging to Joseph
Mayes, of Henrico County, Virginia, was filed and ordered to be recorded.
The county being without a record book, and also a seal,, the following
order was made: "Ordered, that the clerk furnish
this county with the necessary record book, likewise procure a seal, with
a devise of a man standing with a sickle in his hand, with words '
Henderson County,' for the circumspection of the court, and a chest
to hold the record books and papers belonging to the county."
At the November term of the County Court there were
present: Charles Davis, John Husbands and Jacob Newman, gentlemen
Justices. John D. Haussman, Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions for the
County, made oath to, and filed an account amounting to two dollars and
seventy-five cents, of taxes alienations and county sales from from the
commencement of his office, June, 1799, to the first day of October last,
which was ordered to be certified to the Auditor. This being the first
Court of Claims the court proceeded to lay the county levy and stated the
accounts against the county as follow:
THE COUNTY.
For building the
jail.......................................................................................$339.00
To the Clerk for his office and services as per
account................................... 13.89
To the same for three records books and freight on same from the Falls of
the
Ohio.........................................................................................................
30.75
The same for the County
seal........................................................................
8.00
To the
Sheriff...............................................................................................
30.00
To the same for his services in the County
Court........................................... 25.00
Sheriff commissions for collecting $499.50, at 6 per
cent.............................. 30.00
_________
The
County..........................................................................................$476.94
By 333 tithables at $1.50 each, levied for the use of the
County.....................$499.86
_________
Ball.......................................................................................................$
23.22
History of Henderson County, Kentucky
by Edmund L. Starling
pps. 94 - 95
published in 1887
public domain material
