George Allen Aylwin of London seeks the return of "his proper goods and chattels" that are currently held by John S. Adams, the administrator of the late John Campbell. He recounts that he employed the said Campbell "as a Supercargo" for his slave trading ventures to Africa, Havana, and Charleston. Aylwin details how Campbell attended to the business of "the african trade" by bartering for Slaves in Goree and then sailing "to the Havanna where he disposed of the said Slaves and received great part of the proceeds thereof, with part of which he loaded the said Ship with a cargo of Sugars ... and destined the same for England." He asserts that Campbell remained in Havana, attending to Aylwin's affairs, until another ship, "laden with Slaves the property of your orator," arrived; this required Campbell to take 89 female slaves, "they being unsaleable in the Havanna," to Charleston, where he "disposed of them." Aylwin submits that Campbell "met with an accident" on a voyage from South America to Charleston. He avows that Campbell "was largely indebted to your orator on account of the various transactions hereinbefore detailed and others." He charges that John Adams has taken possession of "the said Goods & specie though wholly belonging to your orator, being shipped in the name of the said John Campbell" and that he refuses "to deliver them unto your Orator as his proper goods and chattels." Aylwin seeks the court's assistance in regaining his property. [The petition is missing the last page/pages.]
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
