Case ID: rec-co-ch-sc_1/html/0435-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Test.ss Thos Farr Junior Isaac Humphry’s Wm Elliott Tho: Farr Barnard Elliott. Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Chancery", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Attorney General at the Relation of Haywood v. Elliotts. Rule of Court
    Andw Rutledge pro Complainant
    Filed the 13th January, 1749 [1750]
    Entered the 10th April, 1750
    
      
      
         Mr. Haywood charged that the elder William Elliott had devised 15% acres on Charleston Neck and £10,000 upon a secret trust to his three sons for the use of the Society of General Baptists at Stono and Charleston. The arbitrators decided the suit in favor of the Society, who duly received the legacies. When the Society became extinct in 1791, the land (now within the city limits) reverted to the heirs of William Elliott. (SCHGM, XV, 160.)
    
   Whereas an Information is filed in the Honorable Court of Chancery of this Province by James Wright Esq. his Majesty’s Attorney General on the relation of Henry Haywood Minister of the Society of Christians called General Baptists and others against William Elliot Executor of the last Will and Testament of William Elliot Senior deceased and against the said William Elliot and Thomas Farr as Executors of the last Will and Testament of Joseph Elliot deceased and against Barnard Elliot as Executor of the last Will and Testament of Thomas Elliot Son Trustee and Executor of the last Will and Testament of the aforenamed William Elliot Senior deceased And Whereas the said Parties have agreed to Submit all Matters now in Dispute and Controversy by the said Information; to the Adjustment Determination and final Award of Messrs William Cattell junior John Savage and John Bassnett of Charles Town or of any two of them, So that the Said Adjustment Determination and Award be made in the Premisses on or before the first day of March next, And that the Said Submission be made a Rule of the Said Honorable Court of Chancery; I therefore Andrew Rutledge Sollicitor in behalf of the Said Relators, and we William Elliot Thomas Farr and Barnard Elliot Executors as aforesaid, Do respectively on our parts Submit all Matters in Controversy by the said Information to the Adjustment Decision and final Award of the Said William Cattell Junior John Savage and John Bassnett or any two of them, So that the Said Adjustment Decision and Award be made in the Premisses on or before the Said first day of March next, And we agree that this Submission be Deemed and have the full Effect of a Rule of the Said Honorable Court of Chancery, and Entered as a Rule in the Register’s Book of the Said Court. In Witness whereof we have hereunto respectively Subscribed our hands this Twelfth day of January Anno Dom. 1749 [1750].

Test.ss Thos Farr Junior

Isaac Humphry’s

Wm Elliott

Tho: Farr

Barnard Elliott.

Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Chancery