Mary Woodberry, joined by her "natural guardian," Jonah Woodberry, seeks the court's intervention in John Buchanan's settlement of her grandfather's estate. Jonah Collins's will bequeathed to his granddaughter seven slaves and "one thousand pounds" and appointed several "friends" as his executors; of these friends, only John Buchanan "took upon himself the Execution." Woodberry complains of Buchanan's mismanagement of her grandfather's lands, which she claims are "among the most valuable and least hazardous in the State." She charges Buchanan with putting his own slaves to work on her grandfather's plantation and appropriating to his own advantage the proceeds of the rice and timber cultivation thereon. She proposes that Buchanan "vest the crops in the purchase of negroes" and "place the said one Thousand pounds at Interest."
Or you may view all people.
Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
