Administrator John Bauskett, heir Ann Wightman, and her husband William seek to sell trust property. Ann's uncle, John Moore, died intestate in September 1834. As the only next of kin still residing in the United States, Ann inherited the real estate. Her husband purchased a large part of the personal property at the estate sale, including Moore's seventy-nine slaves. [The commissioner's report reveals that Moore's personal estate sold for $64,000 or $65,000 and that Wightman paid $36,000 or more of that amount.] The Wightmans put everything into a trust for their support, naming Bauskett as trustee. They have continued to work the plantation, but "so unprofitably that, instead of repaying the said John Bauskett for his advances & the excess of said William J's purchases above his wife's portion, they have scarcely made enough to pay the accruing interest on the debts to the said John." The petitioners ask the court to allow them to sell everything, including the slaves, who now number ninety, so that the debts may be paid in full; any remaining proceeds would be invested in bank stock for the trust.
Result: Referred.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
