Mary E. and Martha A. Bailey join their brother and guardian, Henry F. Bailey, in seeking permission to sell thirty-six slaves. The sisters each received eighteen slaves by a writ of partition of the estate of their late father, Edward Bailey. Among these slaves, "there are but fourteen workers or field hands." The girls' brothers do not have "accommodation for the negroes of your petitioners" on their lands. The slaves therefore "would be burdensome and unproductive and liable to depreciation and casualty from sickness and otherwise." Finding that it would be to their "advantage" to sell the slaves, the Baileys ask permission to do so and to apply the proceeds "to their maintenance and support."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina