Charleston residents Ruth and Barbara Cole, mother and daughter, seek an inheritance from the estate of Susanna Raper, "a free mullatto Woman lately died and very suddenly and intestate." Explaining that Raper died possessed of one slave and "a small personal property," the Coles state that Raper had "no issue of her own & not being a person to whom any other person coud Inherit as next of kin her Estate and Effects are by operation of Law become escheated and vested in the State." The petitioners declare that they cared for Raper, who was subject to "many attacks of a violent complaint," during her last illness and that Raper "had fixed intentions of giving to the petitioners ... all she possessed as a small return for their long and unremitted services." They therefore pray that an act be passed "granting to and vesting in your petitioners ... all the residue of the Estate and Effects that were of the said Susanna Raper after payment of her just Debts and funeral Expences." Susanna Raper was the widow of William Raper, a bricklayer of Charleston, and the brother of petitioner Ruth Cole.
Result: Referred to committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
