Jacob Sass, a creditor of the late Richard and Ann Beresford, seeks payment of a debt. He relates that Ann "was entitled to a considerable real and personal estate" at the time she married Richard and that said property was held in trust for the Beresfords during their "joint lives." Sass recounts that both Beresfords "had contracted considerable debts" and that they found "themselves unable ... fully to pay and discharge all the Said debts." He states that they proposed "to the principal creditors" a conveyance of 130 slaves and several tracts of land to the trustees as a means "to discharge the debts aforesaid;" Ann retained "to herself her domestic Servants, gardeners and one hundred negroes." The petitioner further reports that, upon Ann's death, Richard "was entitled to a very large estate in Negroes and other property" and that he conveyed the same to the defendants "for the benefit of his Creditors;" Richard retained a life estate in seventeen slaves "and after his death the said negroes ... should be delivered up to" the said defendants, as trustees and as agents for the other creditors. Charging that "he hath often applied" to the defendants "to pay him what was due to him," Sass submits that they have refused. He therefore asks that "a sufficiency of the before mentioned property ... be sold to satisfy your Orator's demand, and be paid to him within a reasonable time."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
