The 1825 levy list contains monies paid to court officers, (such as judges, clerks, bailiffs, and constables); to jurors and others summoned to appear in court; to residents who repaired, maintained, or provided resources for roads, bridges, or ferries; to those who killed crows; and to others for other reasons. Due to time limitations I did not transcribe all the entries. About 75% of the entries were payments for jury service, a court appearance, or noted "as by his account allowed". Many of the interesting entries for Dorchester County are listed below:
To John C. Traverse for keeping the ferry over Slaughter Creek one year ending April Term 1825 - $320
To John Eason for keeping the ferry over the North West Fork of Nanticoke River one year ending April Term 1825 - $200
To Soloman Kirwin for keeping the ferry over Fishing Creek one year ending April Term 1825 - $200
To Samuel Keene of B. for keeping the ferry over Slaughter Creek on year ending April Term 1825 - $200
Thomas Bell bailiff to the Grand Jury ... use of Henry Nicolls - $12
George Griffith bailiff to the petit Jury - $8
John Willoughby bailiff to the petit Jury - $10
To James Edmondson for 13 crows heads - $1.30
To Ann Ennalls, James Thompson, Richard Willoughby, Elijah and Samuel Hurst, Samuel Cook, John Craig, John Hooper, James Steele, Hooper Rawley, Devereaux Traverse, Robert Wallace, Henry Steeles heirs, Charles Dean, Henry C. Hicks, Sally Lecompte, John Mitchell, William Shearman, Henrietta Stewart, Anthony Manning, Sarah Waggaman, Dorsey Foster, Rachel Payne, Levin Lewis, Henry Dickinson, Daniel Sulivane, William R. Thompson for timber for road. The amounts varied from $0.12 to $8.00
Thomas Norman for 10 crows heads - $1
To money levied for repairing Great Blk Water bridge - $50
subject to the order of George Lake
To money levied for building bridge near Wm. Wingate - $60
subject to the order of George Lake
To Soloman Jones for wood for Courts - $28
Allowances to Judges and Clerks of Elections
(many names & amounts with judge/clerk/constable noted, others below)
To Henry D. Bayly for house - $15
To Peter H. Lowber for house - $15
To John Ennalls for house - $15
To Levin Woolford for house - $15
To Elizabeth Leckie for house - $15
To Thomas H. Hicks, sheriff as by his account allowed - $239.83
To Soloman Kirwin, late sheriff as by his account allowed - $252.70
To Abraham Ross's heirs for error in County charge - $4.59
To the trustees of the poor agreeably to their requisition - $3600
To money levied for repairing bridges at Taylors Island ferry - $30
subject to the order of John Brohawn
To money levied for repairing bridge over the Beever dam - $30
subject to the order of Jonathan Breerwood
To money levied for building a bridge over the Indian Creek - $20
subject to the order of Henry W. Hicks
To money levied for rough casing the Court house - $85
subject to the order of Joseph E. Muse
To Andrew Cook for 19 crows heads
To Chaplain and Donovan for Stationary - $12.75
To additional money levied for rough casing court house - $15
subject to the order of Joseph E. Muse
To John S. Phillips for 3 crows heads - $.30
To William Andrews for 52 crows heads - $5.20
To money levied for painting the court house - $100
subject to the order of E. Richardson & A. Rich