Evelina Walton and her children explain that the late Dr. Anderson Watkins bequeathed to the petitioners $5,000 in cash, real estate, and five slaves: Winney, Sarah, Jerry, Rosanna, and Caroline; Watkins also bequeathed to them the "future issue" of Sarah and Caroline. The inheritance from Watkins's estate was conveyed in trust to Robert Walton, Evelina Walton's husband. The petitioners also state that Robert Clarke, through a Deed of Relinquishment, conveyed all his property, including a slave named Patty, and her issue, in trust to Robert Walton for the use and benefit of Evelina Walton and her children. The petitioners assert that the slave, Jane, child of Sarah, is "almost wholly unproductive and valueless to your orator and oratrixes." They also aver that Patty's five children "have produced little or no income to your orators and oratrixes. But to the contrary ... have been and still are a source of Expence and Embarrowsment to said Trustee." The petitioners request that Robert Walton, as trustee, be granted authority to sell Patty's children and Jane and to invest the proceeds "in such property, as he shall deem most advantageous and proffitable to your Orators and Oratrixes."
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Repository: Richmond County Courthouse, Augusta, Georgia
