Back in October I was on the trail of a court document that might have given me some insight in to the circumstances and personality of my Hubbard family in the mid to late 1800s. My search in the local courthouse turned up the case file I was looking for, but there was no transcript of the proceedings, just the complaint, verdict and judgement. All of these items are helpful, but they don't give much of the story...just the beginning, and the end. I was so hoping to find the transcript, the part that really tells the story.
The case was appealed to the South Carolina Supreme Court so I searched the index and summary of state holdings at the South Carolina Department of Archives and History. Sure enough, there are some files there from the right time frame. Unfortunately, none of them are indexed so I'll have to make the drive to Columbia sometime soon and dig through the files to see if the specific file survived and if so, if it has a transcript of the testimony from the trial and the appeals. Until then, I'll be on to other areas of research.
