Hi: Even though spelled "Hines" I am including these so they'll go into the Rootsweb archives and can be found by Hines researchers. And, besides, they just might be one of our "Hinds". Regards, Nan [email protected] =============== Found at the Univ. of NC DOCUMENTING THE AMERICAN SOUTH site: http://metalab.unc.edu/docsouth/ State of Virginia, Southampton County, to wit: I, James Rochelle, Clerk of the County Court of Southampton in the State of Virginia, do hereby certify, that Jeremiah Cobb, Thomas Pretlow, James W. Parker, Carr Bowers, Samuel B. Hines, and Orris A. Browne, esqr's are acting Justices of the Peace, in and for the County aforesaid, and were members of the Court which convened at Jerusalem, on Saturday the 5th day of November, 1831, for the trial of Nat alias Nat Turner, a negro slave, late the property of Putnam Moore, deceased, who was tried and convicted, as an insurgent in the late insurrection in the county of Southampton aforesaid, and that full faith and credit are due, and ought to be given to their acts as Justices of the peace aforesaid. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the Court aforesaid, to be affixed this 5th day of November, 1831. JAMES ROCHELLE, C. S. C. C. [Seal.]