On September 26th, 1832[1], April 26th, 1833[2], September 27, 1833[3], September 30th, 1834[4][5] April 30th, 1835[6] and September 28th, 1836,[7][8] Adam Hatfield served as a juror in Cabell County.
Adam Hatfield failed to appear in court on Friday, May 3rd, 1844 for a "writ of rights" filed by the infants "John Preston Johnson & Eliza Mary Johnson" by their attorney.[9]
He arrived in court on Tuesday, October 1, 1844, to contest the "writ of rights" and the judge decides to survey the land:
This day came the parties by their attorneys and the tenant filed his plea to the demandants court and disclaims to hold any of the land in the count mentioned except fifty acres..."[10]
On Wednesday, October 2, 1844, the courts decide that the surveyor can use his notes rather than re-survey the land.[11]
Continuance of the case took place on Saturday, May 3rd, 1845[12] and again on Tuesday, September 30, 1845.[13]
Lewis County, Missouri
" I, Benjamin Williams, a justice of the peace in and for the county of Lewis aforesaid, do hereby certify that on the 30th day of July, 1843 I joined to gether in the bands of matrimony Adam S. Hatfield and Martha Walters both of the county of Lewis and of lawful age.
Given under my hand this 3rd day of August 1843, Benjamin Williams, J.P."
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State of Missouri
"I, Minor Ford, a minister of the Gospel do certify that I did on the 13th day of December solemnize the rites of marriage between Mr. Adam S. Hatfield and Miss Elizabeth Green both being of lawful age.
Given under my hand this 13th day of December 1847, Minor Ford"
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Adam was list in the 1850 census in California as a miner panning for gold on the Cosumnes River.[14]
↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M491-J9W : 12 April 2016), Adam S Hatfield in household of James A Gayhart, Consumnes River, El Dorado, California, United States; citing family 5, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
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Possible that the court cases mentioned above refer to this Adam Hatfield's father of the same county.
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