Petition #20184520

Abstract

Robert Gale and his wife Frances W. Gale inform the court that, in 1840, Achilles S. Jeffries, originally of Petersburg, Virginia and Frances's first husband, conveyed to Frances a trust estate, which included three promissory notes worth approximately $5,300, and twenty-three slaves. Nathaniel G. Friend was named as trustee. Achilles and Frances had two children, William Wyndham Jeffries, born in 1840, and Achilles S. Jeffries, born in 1841, after the death of his father. In 1845, Frances W. Jeffries married Robert Gale, of Mobile, Alabama, where she now resides with her two children. The Gales declare that Frances wishes to receive more income from the trust than the trustee is providing. One-third of the annual hire and interest on the notes "is not enough for the reasonable, proper and sufficient maintenance and support of your Oratrix in her situation, condition, station and rank in society." She seeks "the whole of the annual hire of the said negroes and interest of the said monies." According to the copy of the deed of trust submitted with the petition, it appears that only nineteen slaves were included in the property deeded to Frances by the late Achilles.

Result: Granted.

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Repository: University of South Alabama Archives, Mobile, Alabama

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