21384326https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/21384326South CarolinaCharlestonDistrict2881843Equity000105South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaFrances Hayne, beneficiary of a $1,000-trust fund, and Henry Peronneau and Rebecca B. Hayne, executor and executrix of the late Robert Y. Hayne’s last will, represent that the late Mary Edings, a widow, executed her last will in 1828, whereby she entrusted her male mulatto slave named Billy to her friend and her estate executor, Robert Y. Hayne. Edings directed Hayne to “take personal charge” of Billy and to permit him to work “so that he may be enabled to support himself without being a charge” to the estate. In addition, she bequeathed $1,000 in trust to Robert Hayne, to be invested in such a manner that the income could be used to support Billy, should his labor be “insufficient to maintain him” due to either sickness or old age. After Billy’s death, the trust fund's principal and interest were to pass to Robert Hayne’s daughter, Frances. Robert Hayne has now departed this life, and the trust has devolved to his two surviving executors, Henry Peronneau and Rebecca B. Hayne. Both are “desirous to resign” their charge as trustees, and they claim that William Alston Hayne is willing to assume it. They therefore pray that William Alston Hayne be appointed trustee of the fund.White attachment (enslaved)