The Commonwealth of Virginia to the Sheriff of Stafford county greeting: You are hereby commanded to take Charles Carter Esq. Enoch Benson, William Mullen and Benjamin Fichlin, if they be found within your bailiwick, and them safely keep, so that you have their bodies before the Justices of our said county court, at the Court-house of the said county, on the 2d Monday, instant, ... to answer Eli Nichols, & Jane his wife, late Jane Follass, and Rachel Follass, of a plea of Debt for 69,500 lbs, of Crop Tobacco of Falmouth or Fredericksb'g inspection, Damage £50, current money, ... And have there this writ.
Witness Thomas G. S. Tyler, Clerk of our said court, the Seventh day of August 1788, in the 14th year of the Commonwealth.
T. G. S. Tyler.—C.S.C.
WHO CAN EXPLAIN?
We give here, a copy of a document, found among the company papers, that fell into our possesion, when the command came into our hands. We venture (a supposition only,) that the paper refers in some way to what was known as "The company fund," viz: money paid to the company by the commissary department, for rations that were not drawn.
Copy of the Statement.
| 1862. | Cr. | |||
| Jan. | 26. | Rec'd | of Co. fund | $61.75 |
| " | 30. | " | Cash | .30 |
| Feb. | 8. | " | of David Myers | .25 |
| " | 13. | " | of Capt &c. for sugar | .20 |
| " | 22. | " | of Com. Sergt | 79.00 |
| Mar. | 17. | " | for Bread | 1.08 |
| May | 6. | " | for month of March | 51.00 |
| Total credit | $193.58 | |||
| 1862. | Dr. | |||
| Jan. | 27. | Stove | $3.00 | |
| Feb. | 7. | 6 copies tactics | 4.75 | |
| " | 13. | Sand paper | .10 | |
| " | 24. | Ex. on $50 sent to bank | .50 | |
| " | 25. | Stockings | .50 | |
| Mar. | 17. | Bread | 13.39 | |
| " | 19. | Brushes and blacking | 1.95 | |
| June | 8. | 2 doz. Blacking | 1.20 | $25.39 |
| Ballance due the company | $168.19 | |||
If my supposition is correct, then, who received the monies and as the expressage is charged, where was it sent, and where is it now? The paper has no signature.
It seems to have been a settlement made after September 1. 1863, as it is written on the back of another document dated at that time.