Isaac Fair, "by way of amendment" to a bill filed in 1855, disputes "the claim set up by ... Dorcas Wilson to ... the negro woman Eliza and her children, in her own right and as her own property." The petitioner reminds the court that William Taylor "became the sole owner of the equitable interest for the maximum term of twenty one years in the negro Eliza and her increase which was created by the deed of July 1838" and that the said Taylor conveyed said interest in the slave family to him by a deed or release dated 24 November 1855. Fair therefore asserts that, upon the expiration of said twenty-one-year term, "he will be entitled to the absolute Estate and interest in the said negro Eliza and her children." The petitioner charges, however, that the said Wilson "claims the said negro woman Eliza and her increase in her own right under a pretended deed or release thereof from the said William R Taylor dated the 10th day of June 1856 several months subsequent to the deed or release to your Orator." The petitioner therefore prays that Dorcas Wilson "may be decreed to surrender the possession of the said negro woman Eliza and her children to your orator and may be required to account for their hire and services."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
