James M. Lowrey and Jane M. Shrewsbury Lowrey, guardians of Mary and Stephen Shrewsbury, seek the sale of a city lot in Charleston and eleven slaves. The petitioners inform the court that Jeremiah Shrewsbury, the late husband of said Jane, died intestate in 1817 with "his Estate indebted." They report that said Jeremiah left "a Vacant Lot ... in the City of Charleston" and ten named slaves and an unnamed "aged wench." The Lowreys assert, however, that said lot "is so far from yielding any profit or advantage to said Estate that it is an annual expence" and that four of the said slaves "are valuable as Carpenters, the occupation of their former master, but since his death they have become Idle and hardly bring in wages sufficient to Cloth them and pay their Taxes;" the other seven slaves "from their age and infancy are an Expence to the Estate." The petitioners therefore pray that "Said property may be sold by the Commissioner ... and the proceeds be paid over to your petioners to be by them placed in some stock or property that will yield to the parties a profit."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
