The children of Thomas Charlton seek to reclaim thirteen slaves from the heirs and claimants of Alexander Robinson. The petitioners state that James Mumford [Munford] gave twelve slaves to Dr. Thomas Charlton's four children in 1781. Because the children were minors, the deed stated that their father "Should have and retain the possession of the Said Negroes" until Arthur Charlton, the youngest child, turned twenty-one years old. In 1789 Thomas Charlton "Hired out or Disposed of the Services" of two slaves--a man called Sharper and a woman called Ursa [Urser]--to Alexander Robinson. Charlton died in 1790 or 1791, and his widow moved with the children to Georgia. She died soon after, leaving the children "all under age and Totally ignorant of the Said Deed of Gift" until recently. In the years after 1789, Alexander Robinson dispersed the slaves and their offspring to various people. Arguing that the defendants illegally hold these slaves, the petitioners ask the court to order that the defendants return the slaves and account for and pay over "all the profits advantages and emoluments," which the defendants derived from possessing the slaves. An outside genealogical source lists "Wambezie" as another version of the petitioner name "Wamburd [Wamburzee]."
Result: Partially granted pro confesso; partially reversed; partially granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
