Margery Bobo asks the court to confirm her sales of inherited slaves and land. The petitioner, as the widow of B. F. Bobo and the guardian of her son B. Bobo, received some slaves and land from the estate of Barram Bobo, her father-in-law. She had little use for the slaves because of "her lonely condition & her inability to manage negroes having no sufficient farm to work them." Bobo relates that a friend offered to sell the slaves out West free of charge and that she believed that "negroes were at that time bringing a very high price in the West." Being advised that "it would be impossible to procure the Order of this Court in time" to send the slaves with her friend, she sent the slaves "without the direction of this court." The petitioner has also sold the land, a small tract and "by no means Suitable to keep for the use Either of herself or ward." She asks the court to examine her actions and to confirm the sales.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
