State of North-Carolina.
To the Sheriff of Martin County, Greeting.
YOU are hereby commanded to take the Body of William Tyler (if to be found in your Bailiwick) and him safely keep, so that you have him before the Judges of the Superior Court, to be held for the District of Edenton at the Court-House in Edenton on the first day of November next; then and there to answer our Attorney General of and Concerning a Certain Bill of Indictment prefered against the said William Tyler by the Grand Inquest for our said District for Misprision of Treason
Herein fail not; and have you there this Writ. Witness Charles Bondfield Clerk of the said Court, at Edenton the tenth Day of May in the Year of our Lord 1778 and in the second Year of the Independence of the said State.
State vs Tyler Caps
November 1778
Recd. the 3d of Sepr 1778
Tyler not to be found by me
Henry Slade Shf
Martin