Petition #21383719

Abstract

Elizabeth Haig, widow of Dr. Hezekiah Mailiam [Mayhan] Haig, seeks permission to sell four slaves named Moses, Morris, Polydore, and Hester. Haig explains that her aunt, Charlotte Broughton, bequeathed a joint life interest in five slaves to Elizabeth, Elizabeth's mother, and her sisters in 1829. The slaves were Charlotte Broughton's interest in the estate of her late mother, Mary Broughton. Elizabeth's portion of the slaves now living number thirteen: Morris, Snow (a carpenter), Lucinda, Cornelia, Chloe, Polydore, Moses, Hester, Jemy, Scipio, Ambrose, Clarinda and Isaac. She informs the court "that the said slaves have been hitherto employed in planting but she has recently sold her interest in the plantation on which they were so employed." She argues that it "would best promote the interests of herself and her children," to sell them and to invest the proceeds "in other property." She further reveals that her sisters released their contingent interest in the slaves years before. She asks the court to sanction the sale "whereby the contingent right of her said children thereto in case they should survive her may concluded."

20 people are documented within petition 21383719

Or you may view all people.

Citation information

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

Subjects