Elizabeth Kinard McNeel and her seven minor children ask that John T. McNeel be restrained "from removing ... slaves from and without the Limits of this state without ample security that they will be fourth comming at the Death of the said Elizabeth." They aver that John M. Kinard, the father of said Elizabeth, devised four slaves "to be hers during her natural Life and to vest in her issue after her death." They further attest that said John McNeel, the husband of said Elizabeth and the father of the minor petitioners, "has no other negro property and very little of any other except a tract of Land," which he recently bought but on which no payment has been made. The McNeels charge that said John "took the whole of the Negroes ... and started off saying to some of the infant children that he was going off with the said Negroes to the state of Texas never to return" and that he intends to sell said slaves. They lament that said defendant has left them "entirely without the means of a support," except for "the Land which he purchased as above and not paid for." Fearing that "she will be deprived of the means of a support during her Life and that her children deprived of their interest in said negroes as remaindermen," Elizabeth joins her children in asking that said John be compelled to furnish her "a support during her Life and that the said Negroes be declared to be the trust property for her support and maintenance during her Life" and that they be forthcoming to said children upon her death.
Result: Granted pro confesso.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
