Thomas Skain, "the Comittee of the person & estate of peter Skain a lunatic," asks to sell his brother's estate. The petitioner informs the court that said Peter owns two tracts of land and a "negro girl who has one child." Skain argues that said land is "extremely unproductive" and that the said slave "is of little or no service & would hire for very little in consequence of her having to devote the greater part of her time & attention to the nursing & taking care of the child." The petitioner reveals that he "is about to depart the State & to remove to the Alabama country in the Mississippi Territory and is desirous to take the said lunatic with him who is a brother of your orator." With a view "that the said estate may be reduced to cash," Skain therefore prays that a commissioner be authorized to "sell the said estate at public auction."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
