Several heirs of Elizabeth Wrenwick Nichols sue her executors for an account and division of the estate. By a deed of 1784 and a later will, Solomon Nichols gave a life interest in his personal estate to his wife Elizabeth, with the remainder of the estate to be divided equally between her children after her death. In 1796 Elizabeth Nichols wrote her will, giving several specific bequests but also directing that the rest of her estate be divided between her children when they turned twenty-one years old. Upon her death in 1806, Elizabeth's sons, John Wrenwick and William Wrenwick, became her executors and took possession of both estates. Agness Wrenrick, Elizabeth's daughter, and Jabez Gantt and Solomon Royston, Elizabeth's grandsons, charge that John and William have not filed the required yearly reports, nor will they divide the property with the other heirs. The petitioners also fear that William will waste the property and leave the state. They ask the court to compel the executors to render their accounts and to distribute the property. They also ask for a writ of ne exeat against William to prevent him from leaving the state.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
