| Summary: | Bill filed by the executors of Henry S Lloyd. Will stated that all the plantations should be worked for 2 years to pay off the testator's debts and the court ruled that the provision on these debts had to be enforced. Valuable legacies were also left to the defendant, Helen Slade. The testator bequeathed to this aunt all my negroes on my Roanoke plantation, also all my negroes on my Edgecombe farms. The bequest embraced the offspring of slaves removed from Martin to Edgecombe farms, but born in the latter county. Provisions of will to restore slaves to their original place of residence. The court ruled in the matter of which slaves went to Helen Slade and it also said that it was intended that the slave children go to be with their mothers. The testator had died in Philadelphia in 1860. At this time there were 27 slaves on his Roanoke plantation in Martin county. All of these except one had been bequeathed to the testator by Henry Slade. The slave called Weaver had been purchased in Richmond. There were 35 slaves brought from the Roanoke plantation to Edgecombe. Of these, 22 had been bequeathed to the testator by his grandfather Henry Slade, or were their increase; the balance had been purchased in neighbouring counties.
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