Petition #21382307

Abstract

The executors of the late Robert Crenshaw seek to purchase land for the eighteen-year-old son of their testator. They inform the court that Crenshaw's will "directed that four of his negroes among whom was a blacksmith should remain on a tract of Land ... until his Said Son should arrive to the age of twenty one years." The petitioners declare, however, that said land "is verry poor, and will yield little or nothing that their is not a sufficiency of timber thereon to furnish Coal for the Smith Shop." They further assert "that to Continue on this place longer will be of great damage and injury to the said infant." The petitioners therefore pray that "they may be allowed to purchase Land for the said infant to the amount of two thousand dollars." They also reveal "that they have purchased for the use of the infant a negro Girl at five hundred & fifty Dollars," and "they pray that purchase may be Confirmed." The executors lastly ask that they be permitted "to purchase [a] boy to act as a Striker to the Smith."

Result: Granted.

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

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