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| Name | Complaints | Action |
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| Rebecka Cox W  lives 4 ms so of Silesville Anson Co N.C. | Rockingham Oct 18th 1867 Complains that her illegitimate son named Dixon was bound by Co Court of Anson Co 3 or 4 yrs ago to Adam Clark without her knowledge or consent. Asks that he may be released from this indenture. Mrs Cox owns 2 acres of land & 5 head of cattle. State Ben Harris (white) is Dixon father. |   |

| Harriet Dockery col vs Peter Mason col | Rockingham Oct 18, 1867 Harriet Dockery complains that Peter Mason with whom she has been living for several years & by whom she has several children the youngest not two years old | Refered Harriet Dockery to Jno W Leak Esqr and requested him to have Harriet swear her child. |

| Hugh McGregor wh for Gabel Jones wh vs David Jones col | Rockingham Oct 21st 1867 Complains that Mr Jones rented to David Jones to work her land. She says upon the following conditions that she was to furnish Land Horse & feed for horse, Seed & Tools, and was to give Dave 1/3. He David now claims 1/2 which is not customary | Wrote to David & to Mrs Jones to gather the entire crop and divide it give 1/3 to Dave & if at any time Dave can prove that he as to have 1/2 the crop I will give it to him. |

| MW McNair w vs Widow Monroe w Near Sand Hill | Bu RF&AL Rockingham Oct 22nd 1867 Complains that Mara (col) who was bound to him on the 5th of Dec 1865 by Lieut R M Drinker and approved by Bvt Major Thos J Wickersham at Wilmington NC and who is now a resident of Richmond Co NC is now in the employ of Mrs Archibald Monroe. | Wrote to Mrs Monroe to give this child up to Mr McNair Mara is now 16 yrs old & is bound until she is 21. Mara is an orphan Dec 3 wrote to Referd McNair to send Mara home to MW McNair |

| Caroline Cole col vs Pleasant Ratliff w  1st outrage v | Bu RF&AL Rockingham NC Oct 22 67 Complains that Pleasant Ratliff is the father of her child Johny born in Richmond Co October 1866 | Referd to JW Leak Esqr with request that he commence legal proceeding against P Ratcliff Caroley swore her child is for Complaint |

|Danl Laseter w vs Major Covington col | Rockingham NC Oct 22nd 67 Complains that in May 1866 he lost a hog & had as he believed good & sufficient ground to believe & to prove that Major Covington had killed it. Edmond Covington col his witness states that he lived in the same room with Major and that no pork had been cooked or brought into the house by Major, but that Major had told him in answer to his enquiry if he Major had killed Laseter' hog he answered no but that he had killed a hog about that time. | Dismissed the case for the want of proof that Major Covington had killed Danl Laseters hog |