Petition #21382502

Abstract

Alexander and Mary Hanford McIver seek permission to sell and exchange certain property in the estate of Mary's late father, Enoch Hanford, who died intestate in 1817. Mary's mother has since died, as well, and now Mary and her seven-year-old sister, Margaret Hanford, are the only surviving heirs to the estate. The McIvers wish to sell the "unfinished mansion house" on Hanford's property, because of its "adjacency to the river swamp." They submit that three out of five family members have died "of the autumnal fever" and testify that "perhaps no place in the Southern Country has been for several years past more unhealthy." They also request permission to exchange a slave named Bill, who is "of the most abandoned character [and] was generally half his time runaway," with another slave named Issabella. Acknowledging the one-hundred-dollar price differential between the two slaves, the McIvers contend that Bill "by his evil example did much to Corrupt the morals of the other slaves." They further note that Margaret Hanford requires a court-appointed guardian to represent her interests.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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