On 30 November 1856, Mabrey Hinnant petitioned a Wilson County justice of the peace for assistance in obtaining full satisfaction from Asberry Blackwell for a seventy-dollar court judgment.
“This day came Mabrey Hinnant before me John Nichols one of the Justices of the peas for said county and taketh oath that he believes that the defendant has not property sufichant to satisfy said Judgment which the ptr Mabrey Hinnant has latley obtained against the Defendant Asberry Blackwell for the sum of seventy Dollars and intrest and cost which can be reched by a fieri facias and has property money or Effects which can not be reched by a fieri facias or has fraudilently conseld his property money or efects Sworn to and subscribed before me this 30th day of Novb 1856 Mabrey (X) Hinnant”
[A fieri facias, or fi fa, Latin for “cause it to be done,” is a court order that instructs a sheriff to seize and sell a debtor’s property to pay off a debt.]
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Asberry Blackwell married Nancy Taylor on 2 October 1845 in Nash County.
In the 1850 census of Nash County: Asberry Blackwell, 25 [listed alone.]
In the 1860 census of Kirby’s district, Wilson County: Asberry Blackwell, 45, turpentine laborer, wife Nancy, 30, farm laborer, and children Charity, 14, Drucilla, 9, Albert, 7, Appy, 7, Zilpha, 4, Obedience, 3, and Asberry, 2 months.