
    James Crokatt  v. Executors of Wilkins
    
      
       James Crockatt, one o£ the organizers o£ the first fire insurance company in America, was a prosperous merchant of Charleston and London, in whose office Henry Laurens served three years in expectation of being taken into partnership. Crockatt was appointed to Council in 1738 but returned to London in 1739, and served as agent of the province 1749-1756. (David Duncan Wallace, The Life of Henry Laurens, 1915, p. 15; History of S. C., I, 260, note; for Crockatt’s correspondence with Laurens, see SCHGM, XXIX, XXX, XXXI.)
    
   Ordered that this Cause by the Consent of all Parties be Set down to be heard on Bill and Answer on Thursday the Fourteenth of this instant May.  