Asa Godbold, administrator of the late Willoughby Lambert, asks that the sale of a family of slaves be confirmed and that he receive "the protection of your Honorable Court in the distribution of the fund subject to division after the payment of debts." Godbold avers that the said Lambert died intestate in 1846, "leaving no wife, legitimate children, father or mother," survived only by a nephew, James Lambert, and the widow and children of the late William Lambert, "a natural brother." He further asserts "that the Estate of his Intestate [was] indebted in various ways" and that a sale of his real estate and his personal estate, "except the negroes," did not wholly satisfy the executions, requiring "a disposition of a portion of the negroes (consisting of one family) at least to discharge" said debts. Godbold reveals that a certain E. Godbold has agreed to buy said negroes for $1400 "in cash, which was regarded a fair price." However, he "is forced to resort for instructions how to pay over the sums of money belonging to the said Estate after discharging the debts," as the surviving heirs dispute their interests in said estate. He prays that the said sale be confirmed and that he be directed by decree "to whom he shall pay over the said sum and in what proportions."
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
