Petition #21381705

Abstract

The heirs of Thomas Barksdale ask that Thomas Barksdale be appointed trustee of certain property bequeathed by his father Thomas to his sister, Sabina Barksdale Payne. They aver that the decedent devised twenty-three slaves to his daughter Sabina for her sole and separate use during her lifetime; upon her death, he stipulated that the property would descend to any "child or children, of my daughter Sabina" or to "such of my children, as may be then living" if said Sabina "should die without leaving" any issue. Sabina and her siblings, "who have a reversionary interest in the said Estate," believe that "the Negro slaves, named in the Will aforesaid and bequeathed as aforesaid are a very unprofitable gang of Negroes, producing an uncertain income to the said Sabina." They further note that Sabina and her husband "reside in Town," and they are "therefore obliged to put their negroes in the employment of such Planters as may choose to hire them." The petitioners "think it would be for the benefit of all of them were the ... Negroes aforesaid sold and the proceeds vested in Bank stock." They therefore pray that Thomas Barksdale be appointed trustee and be empowered to make such sale "deemed by him most advantageous and to vest the proceeds thereof in Bank of other Stock."

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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