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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Isabella Baxter an Infant of the age of three years by her next Friend Hugh Dowse Plaintiff v. William Macpherson one of the Executors of Isabella Knott deceased Defendant
    
      
       Governor Lyttelton had been promoted to the governorship of Jamaica and departed April 5, 1760. William Bull (1710-1791) had been appointed lieutenant governor when Thomas Pownall was named as governor, but Pownall never came to Carolina so Bull began serving the first of his five interregnum terms, until the arrival of Governor Thomas Boone Dec. 22, 1761.
      Two new members of Council were present:
      Capt. George Austin of the Royal Navy, a wealthy merchant of Charleston and partner of Henry Laurens; in 1736 he had married Anne (Ball), widow of Capt. Philip Dawes of the Royal Navy, and a half sister of Laurens’ wife Eleanor. Austin’s service on the Council was brief, for he returned to England and lived on his Aston Hall estate in Shropshire. There Laurens visited him and effected a reconciliation between Austin and his daughter Eleanor, who had run away in 1762 to marry Dr. John Moultrie. (SCHGM, V, 249; XX, 131.)
      Sir Egerton Leigh (1732-1781), son of Chief Justice Peter Leigh, was surveyor-general, 1756-1772; attorney-general, 1765-1774; and judge of vice-admiralty, 1761-1768. He was made a baronet in 1772, and, like his father, became provincial Grand Master of Masons. A lawyer of some ability, his handsomely furnished home and art collection evinced his culture, but his morals were typical of the London in which he had been reared. In 1756 he married Martha Bremar, niece of Henry Laurens, and developed a country seat called The Retreat, but the brick residence and driveways have disappeared and the property is now within the Navy Yard. (St. Philip’s Register, 1754-1810, p. 143; SCHGM, IV, 313; XI, 133; XVII, 160; XIX, 5g, 60.)
    
   Upon Motion of Mr. Parsons of Council with the Plaintiff, and reading the Petition of the Plaintiff and the Affidavit of Hugh Dowse It is Ordered by the Court that a Ne exeat regnum do issue against the Defendant.

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At a Court of Chancery held at the Council Chamber Tuesday the 10th June 1760.

Present, The Honorable William Bull, Esq. Lieutenant Governour; The Honorable Edward Fenwicke, Othniel Beale, George Austin, Egerton Leigh, Esquires.

The Vestry of the Parish of St. Thomas having preferred three Several Memorials to this Court, Setting forth that they have laid before the Court for their inspection and Approbation the Accounts of their transactions and Proceedings any way touching or concerning the Donation and Charity of Richard Beresford Esq. to the said Vestry from the 20th Day of March 1753 exclusive to the 27th day of March 1758 inclusive pursuant to an Act of the General Assembly for Incorporating the said Vestry Now upon Motion of Mr. Rattray Sollicitor for the Memorialists made to this Court, It is Ordered that the said Accounts so returned by them under their hands and the Corporation seal may be received and filed among the Records of this Court.

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