William Leman asks to be reimbursed $258.80 "for the advances which he has made" for the minor heirs of the late Isaac Rembert. He states that Rembert died in 1838 and that he and his wife, Catharine Ann Rembert Leman, agreed that her three minor siblings "should remove to Charleston and become inmates of the house of ... your Petitioner ... And that your Petitioner should also attend to the education, clothing, and other necessities of the said children." He avers that "the greater part" of Rembert's estate "consisted in negro slaves" and that "many of the said negroes being mechanics had been employed" during Rembert's lifetime "working for hire in the City of Charleston, and the income arising therefrom had been amply sufficient [for] the maintenance, education, and other expenses of his said family." He submits, however, that "the allottment and transfer to the married children of their respective portions" of said estate "has materially reduced the income of the said estate." He also reveals that "the remainder of the said negroes were entrusted" to his custody "for the purpose of being hired out," whereby he paid "the necessary expenses of the said negroes." He prays that he be paid "from the income of the said Estate for such sums of money as he has advanced and paid" for the "maintenance, education, and support of the said children, and the payment of taxes, badges, clothing &c for the said negroes."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
