William Chambliss joins his sister Margery and her husband, Thomas Crimm, in asking for accounts and the partition of slaves. William and Margery recount that their parents, Nathaniel Chambliss and Dorcas Nettles Chambliss Ricks, both died before 1819, leaving three minor children -- William, Margery, and Sarah -- and an estate that included five slaves. In 1819, the court appointed the children's uncle, Benjamin Nettles, as their guardian, but it revoked his guardianship in 1828. In 1822 he received five slaves from Tennessee that were his and his sisters' share of their father William Nettles' estate. Nettles delivered some of the slaves to the new guardian in 1829, but he had sold two slaves and had kept two others. He never accounted for the hires of any of the slaves, the sales, or $1,070 he received "for the benefit of the children of Chambliss." The petitioners ask that Nettles make a detailed account of his guardianship, return Daniel and Mary, and account for the hires of the slaves. They also ask the court to partition all of the slaves "between and among the parties thereunto entitled," including the petitioners, Nettles, their sister Sarah and her husband, John McDougle, and their mother's last husband, John Ricks, and his son, Alfred Ricks.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
