Dear Group, I am not sure where this record will lead, it is one that I copied at the archives, so it might as well go into the Bertie Archive Records with the rest of the others...maybe it will be of some help at some time. Cathy 1746 Bertie Co Civil Papers 010.325.1 NCArchives Cathy Hart Farris Jan. 2002 Needham BRYAN vs. Robert THOMPSON North Carolina Bertie County George the Second by the Grace of God King of Great Britain To the Sheriff of Bertie County Greeting We command you to take the body of Robert THOMPSON late of Bertie County planter if to be found in your bailiwick him safely keep so that you have him before our Justice at our next court to be held for the said county at the court house on the second Tuesday in August next then and there to answer Needham BRYAN in a plea of trespass on the case damage eight pounds Crown money of the Colony of Virginia herein Fail not and have you there the __? (could be next or rent? cathy) Witness Robert FORSTER Clerk of the said County the 20th day of June 1746