Abram Jones, executor of the estate of William F. Goodwyn, asks the court to allow a sale and to suspend a judgment against him until after that sale. Goodwyn willed property to his wife and daughter but left extensive debts that could not be settled out of the undevised property. A court decree allowed the executors to sell the bequeathed property, "except five house Servants reserved to his wife," and ordered them to pay the widow $500 annually. They sold the plantation and slaves willed to Mrs. Goodwyn. Her new husband, William P. Corbin, bought six slaves for $2,550 but never paid the money. In 1826 the Corbins sued Jones, claiming that the estate owed them money. They won and procured an attachment against Jones. The petitioner reports that he won his appeal, and he asserts that the estate still owes substantial sums of money to him and others. The only remaining property is the "Congaree plantation and negroes and about one hundred bales of cotton on hand worth probably $2500." Meanwhile, the Corbins "insist that he shall take the money out of his own pocket to pay the annuity" owed the widow. Jones asks the court to order the sale of the remaining property and to suspend the attachment against him until he can pay the Corbins from estate funds.
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