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Sample Recognizances from Charleston County, South Carolina, 1823-1832
Criminal recognizance bonds. Although they post-date the Founding era by a decade or so, many bonds appear on printed forms that remained unchanged from the mid-eighteenth century. Courtesy of the South Carolina Department of Archives and History.
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