North Carolina, Supreme Court, Raleigh : State on the relation of Williams et al v Britton's administrator et al, June 1850 [printed].
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- Raleigh, North Carolina : North Carolina Supreme Court, 1850.
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- Adam Matthew Digital (Firm) and North Carolina. Division of Archives and History
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- Case concerning the ownership and proposed sale of slaves by Harrel. This was an action for debt on a bond executed by William Britton, with the defendants as his sureties, upon his obtaining letters of administration on the estate of Hodges Harrel. The alleged breach was that Britton left the slaves with the widow instead of distributing them among the next of kin of the intestate. The wives of Williams and Cox were children of the intestate. The other relators were children of another daughter by the same mother. Back in 1814 John Acre had bequeathed a slave called Lucy to his daughter Patience, who was married to Hodges Harrel. Lucy had a daughter Ann, who then had five children herself. These slaves were in the possession of Hodges Harrel at his death, although he had often threatened to sell them if his wife would agree to this. He admitted that the slaves belonged to his wife and said that it was hard to have to raise negroes for other persons. Judge Ellis ruled that the plaintiffs could not maintain their action. This was a matter for the new Administrator who still had to be appointed to complete the process started by Britton. The Supreme Court agreed and said that the slaves in the controversy were still unadministered.
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- Electronic reproduction. Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2007. Digitized from a copy held by the North Carolina State Archives.
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- North Carolina State Archives
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- Material sourced from the North Carolina State Archives
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