Monday Oct 12th 1863
State of Florida }
Alachua County } At a regular Term of the Circuit
Court of the Suwannee Circuit Court of Florida this
day to wit on the 12th day of October AD 1863 begun &
held at Gainesville for the County aforesaid
Present his
honor James B. Dawkins Judge &c E.M. Graham Esqr Solcr
Saml W. Burnett Sheriff and J.P. Bevill Clerk
There having been a failure to summon Jurors agreeably to
law, it is ordered that venire facias be issued returnable
immediately Commanding the Sheriff to summon Fifteen Jurors
to attend at this term of the Court J.B. Dawkins
Judge &c
Whereupon the Sheriff Summoned the following to Serve
as Jurors for the present Term to wit
George W. Boston = S.F. Harvard = M.C. Fifer = J.M. Parchman =
Wm Strickland = Wm N. Thompson = John R. Bevill = D.A. Frier
Wm May = T.H. Howell = J.B. Holder, J.A. Cannon = Noah Townsend =
Andrew Bates = J.L. Cameron = J.J. Mickle = J.H. Malphurs = Wm A.
Turner = Thomas E. Haile = Philip Dell - Elias Earl = Frances A.
Shannon = James M. Richardson Dempsey Blake = James A. Goff
C.L. Dinkins = James H. Stephens = Henry L. Meeks -----
The following were then chosen and Solicited as Grand Jurors for
the present Term to wit
1 George W. Boston 9 William May
2 S.F. Harvard 10 T.H. Howell
3 M.C. Fifer 11 Joseph B. Holder
4 J.M. Parchman 12 John A. Cannon
5 Wm Strickland 13 Noah Townsend
6 Wm N. Thompson 14 Andrew Bates
7 J.R. Bevill 15 John L. Cameron
8 D.A. Frier
who having returned under direction of the Court to Solicit
their Foreman, then after and upon the same returned into
Court and reported George W. Boston to be their choice as
foreman he was duly appointed and affirmed by the Court
as foreman Whereupon the said George W. Boston was duly sworn
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