Ann Alicia Stock, on behalf of herself and her four minor children, petitions the court for permission to sell slaves in a trust estate created prior to her marriage with John Stock, who died in November 1817. By virtue of their 1806 marriage settlement, the eighty slaves that Ann brought to the marriage were placed in a trust to be administered by Thomas Rhett Smith and Thomas Chiffelle. Stock explains that the land in her late husband's estate is "not more than Sufficient for his own Negroes to plant with any prospect of success." She proposes to convert the proceeds of the sale "into Bonds and Mortgages and Stock. She also avers that her trustees concur with the plan, but they cannot effect it "without the sanction of this honorable Court."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
