Elizabeth Brown Welsh seeks to recover certain slave property to which she claims entitlement. She submits that her father, Joseph Brown, "in his life time made a deed of Gift to your oratrix and Harrison Brown," but the "Bill of Sale to your oratrix and Harrison was distroyed and the property conveyed to all the children of the said Joseph Brown." She further states that her husband, Andrew Welsh [also known as Timothy Lovin] sued Brown's heirs for his right to her half of the "gifted" property. She states that Brown's administrators had also sued to sell his real estate to pay his debts, whereupon the court ruled that the estate be divided between Harrison and Elizabeth and that the real estate be sold. Elizabeth charges that the said Andrew sold two slaves, "in violation of the rights of your oratrix." She further avers that she went with Andrew to Tennessee and "that he was committed to Goal for murder and Robbery that he broke Goal twice and was Killed in a subsequent attempt to arrest him." Having returned to the state, she now cites that "she has been informed that her interest has been absorbed by the decree of this court in paying the inequality produced by the Gift and division of the negroes between her and Harrison." The petitioner therefore prays that certain defendants "be compelled to restore the said negroes to your oratrix by a decree of this court."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
