Petition #21381905

Abstract

Eliza M. Couturier seeks permission to sell "a certain parcel of Negroes now in the possession of Elias Couturier Administrator on the Estate of Isaac Couturier deceased." The petitioner attests that her son, Isaac R. E. Couturier, inherited the said slaves "by the Death of his Father." She points out, however, that her son "has no Land on which the said Negroes can be worked." Contending that the said "Negroes do not make so much as the Interest of the money would amount to were they sold," Couturier reveals that "some of them have been for some time back on the decline and are now daily decreasing in value." She therefore prays that "the said Negroes may be sold by your Petitioner and the proceeds of the said sale be vested in such manner as may to your Petitioner seem most productive."

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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