Wilkes County (Ga.)
Found in 21 Collections and/or Records:
Wilkes County - County Court - Civil and Criminal Case Files
This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of Civil and criminal case files involving: (1) distress warrants, (2) promissory notes, (3) summonses, (4) accusations, and (5) indictments.
Wilkes County (Georgia) records
Promissory notes and court cases, from Wilkes County, Georgia and Richmond County, Georgia. Records involve the Alexander, Anthony, Butler, Dearing, Dooly, Floyd, Hill, Seaman, Shackelford, Ward, Wiley, and Wingfield families.
Wilkes County - Justice of the Peace Court - Civil and Criminal Case Files
This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of civil and criminal case files involving: (1) Debts, (2) Executions, (3) Affidavits (4) Assumsits, (5) Garnishments, (6) Attachments, (7) Bail bonds, (8) Fi fas, (9) Complaints, (10) Certioraris, and (11) Warrants.
Wilkes County - Justice of the Peace Court - Docket
This series consists of a bound ledger containing: (1) the parties in litigation, (2) amount of judgement plus interest, (3) court costs, and (4) date judgement was satisfied.
Wilkes County - Land Court - Orders
Wilkes County - Miscellaneous County Offices - Miscellaneous Records
Wilkes County - N/A - Miscellaneous Militia Records - Original, 1788-1820
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Civil and Criminal Case Files
This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of Civil and criminal case files involving: (1) bail bonds, (2) misdemeanors, (3) debts, (4) fi fas,(5) attachments, and (6) assumsits.
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Estate Records
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Estray Records
This series consists of a bound ledger, the last 4 pages of which contain lost or strayed livestock. The information consists of: (1) county and district, (2) type and size of animal, (3) branding marks appearing on body, (4) whom the animal was appraised by and for how much, (5) date of the court appearance, and (6) judge residing in the case.
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Marriage Records
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Minutes
This series includes records of minor civil cases brought before the court. Information found in this series includes: (1) names of litigants and verdicts; (2) discussion of county business (building roads and bridges, courthouse construction and repairs, appointment of commissioners, etc.), and (3) listings of jurors.
Wilkes County - Probate Court - Misc. Estate Records
This series contains estate records submitted to the Wilkes County Court of Ordinary for recording as the official probate records of estates. Records may include: annual returns, inventories & appraisements, appraisals, guardian bonds, letters of administration, administrator's bonds, letters of guardianship, returns on sale of property, and wills. An asterisk next to a folder number in the inventory indicates a will in the file.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Appeal Docket
This series consists of a bound ledger containing: (1) the names of the attorneys' for parties in litigation, (2) case numbers, (3) parties in litigation, (4) types of cases, and (5) brief data on disposition of cases. The types of cases appealed were assumsits, ejectments, bills in equity and debts.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Civil and Criminal Case Files
This series contains original unbound papers which formed portions of civil and criminal case files involving: (1) Assumsits (2) Debts (3) Appeals (4) Misdemeanors (5) Fi fas (6) Attachments (7) Trespass in ejectments (8) Petitions (9) Judgments (10) Covenants (11) Promissory notes (12) Interrogatories (13) Garnishments (14) Affidavits and (15) Claim bonds.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Court Docket Books
This series consists of ledgers containing: (1) the parties in litigation, (2) witnesses for the plaintiff and/or defendant, (3) substitutes (if any), and (4) date of the case.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Execution Dockets
This series consists of bound ledgers containing: (1) the names of the attorneys for parties in litigation, (2) case numbers, (3) parties in litigation, and (4) whether or not the case was satisfied.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Grand Jury Docket
This series consists of a bound ledger that contains: (1) the parties in litigation with the state, (2) the state's witnesses, (3) charges against the defendant, (4) the jurors' names after being sworn in, (5) the foreman's acknowledgement of the case being a true bill, (6) the pleading by the defendant, (7) the findings of the jury, and (8) the fine or punishment levied.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Minutes
Minutes for 1778 to 1780 and those after 1787 have been microfilmed and are available in the microfilm library.
Wilkes County - Superior Court - Subpoena Dockets
This series consists of bound ledgers containing: (1) case number (2) date of subpoena (3) person subpoenaed (4) for what parties they were subpoenaed (5) who delivered the subpoena and (6) number of days served. Among the cases tried were assaults, debts, assumpits and slander. The records are in general decay, uncleaned and in the same condition as they were taken from the courthouse (except 1852 - 1853 which has been laminated and bound).