John R. Pickett, the administrator of the late Philip H. Pickett, asks that over 100 slaves be partitioned. The petitioner represents that his late brother was seized and possessed of certain tracts of lands and that he "was also possessed in full and complete ownership" of 40 slaves. Pickett further recounts that the intestate "had in his possession" 61 slaves, whom he had received from the estate of his father-in-law, the late Samuel McCullough, and that said Philip "had an estate in fee simple in said slaves;" his brothers-in-law now share a "contingent interest" in said slaves. Citing that he and Mary Jane McCullough Pickett, as administrators, "have paid off" most of the estate's debts, the petitioner therefore prays that "a Writ of Partition may issue ... directed to certain persons therein to be named commanding them to make partition and division of said real and personal estate, among the parties interested, according to the respective interests therein."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
