John A. Wragg seeks the court's assistance in procuring titles to thirty-one slaves, whom he has contracted to sell in Georgia for "the sum of Four hundred and fifty Dollars for each." Wragg informs the court that the slaves, who were the "separate property" of Wragg's mother, Mary Ashby I'on Wragg, before she married his father, Samuel Wragg, have been secured in a trust by his parents' marriage settlement. Jacob Bond I'on, who administers the trust with Thomas Lowndes, "declines executing the said conveyances without an order of this Honourable Court." The slaves await sale in Georgia. Wragg asks the court to order the trustees to enforce the "specific performance of the said agreement."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
