Widow Harriet M. R. Montmollin asks the court's permission to sell eighty-one slaves bequeathed to her by her late husband, John Montmollin. As the administratrix of her late husband's estate, the petitioner has discovered that her husband died owing debts of more than $30,000. Since 1860 she has unsuccessfully tried to raise ample crops to pay off the debts or even the interest on the debts. The petitioner is certain that selling the slaves, the plantation, and its equipment is her only recourse. She requests that the court issue an order permitting her to sell all of the slaves and other plantation equipment in her husband's estate at public auction in Savannah, “which she believes to be as advantageous a market for the sale.” The subsequent account of the public auction reveals that the petitioner earned more than $88,000 from the sale of said slaves.
Result: Granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
