Eliza Pinckney, "a Free Mulatto" woman, seeks the court's permission to sell a slave named Harry. Her late husband, Thomas Pinckney Jr., conveyed an unspecified number of slaves in trust to her on 1 August 1810. Since Thomas's death, she confides that "she is totally unable to manage the said Negroes in any way to make them productive to herself or children." Asserting that Harry "is always Runaway and pays no wages," the petitioner represents that she would like to sell him and to invest the proceeds in "property that will be more productive."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
