The wife and children of Lawrence Hext seek to stop the sale of certain slaves, who belong to their trust estate. They inform the court that Richard C. Ashe Sr., the father of Eliza A. Hext, "settled in trust" slaves to his daughter in 1831 and that Richard C. Ashe Jr. was appointed trustee. The petitioners further report that their trustee exchanged four of said slaves for a tract of land and that, in 1841, he received authorization to exchange the land "for certain other negroes." The Hexts assert that, from the time of said exchange "until very recently," the slaves "ordered to be exchanged together with ... one of the original negroes embraced in the original deed by Richard C Ashe Senior have remained in the quiet and undisturbed possession of your Orators and Oratrixes." They now declare that Sheriff N. G. W. Walker "hath lately levied upon" said slaves, and they believe that the said sheriff "will in fact sell the said negroes unless restrained by the order of this Honorable Court." Noting that the said slaves are "of special value" to them, the petitioners pray that the defendants may be restrained "from molesting or interfering with the said negroes, or disturbing your Orators and Oratrixes in their possession."
Result: Granted pro confesso.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
