Hannah High, widow of Julius High, joins other heirs in asking that an account and division of her late husband's be rendered. Hannah recounts that the said Julius devised to her a life interest in "Sundry negro Slaves many of which are quite young and unable to labor so as to pay there Expenses." She further confesses that she "is now quite aged and unable to look after and take care of said negro Slaves and attend to all there wants" and that due to her "enfeebled State of health, it has become a burden and hardship too heavy for her Strength to attend to said negro children that her own children have all left her and hence the task imposed upon her of caring for Said negroes is the more Onerous." Hannah therefore asks that her life interest in said estate be set aside and that said estate be divided equally among the heirs, with her taking a child's part. The petitioners also ask that the land, which cannot be divided equally, be sold and the proceeds equitably distributed, thereby challenging the executor's claim that debts deem a division of said estate "impossible."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, Florida
