Case Name: Robert Williams v. Adrian Loyer and others; Margaret Skilling, Administratrix of John Athol, v. Administrators of William MacCawly
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1771-03-07
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 582
Docket Number: 
Parties: Robert Williams v. Adrian Loyer and others Margaret Skilling, Administratrix of John Athol, v. Administrators of William MacCawly
Judges: Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The honorable Othniel Beale, John Burn, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires; William Burrows Esq. Master.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 582–582

Head Matter:
Present, His Honor, the Lieutenant Governor; The honorable Othniel Beale, John Burn, and Thomas Skottowe, Esquires; William Burrows Esq. Master.
Robert Williams v. Adrian Loyer and others Margaret Skilling, Administratrix of John Athol, v. Administrators of William MacCawly
Robert Williams Jr., an attorney at Charleston, had married Ann Roper the previous month (SCHGM, XI, 95).
Adrian Loyer probably was the son of the Adrian Loyer who married Catherine Dalbiac in 1744 and died in 1750 (St. Philip’s Register 1720-J75S, pp. 184, 214). Apparently he was a French Huguenot.

Opinion:
On Motion of Mr. Parsons Ordered that these two Causes be set down for a hearing on Thursday the 4. of April next.
On reading the Petition of Mr. Thomas Heyward Attorney at Law praying to be admitted a Solicitor of this Court Ordered that the Prayer of said Petition be granted and that the Name of the said Thomas Heyward be inrolled amongst the Names of the Solicitors thereof.
Thomas Heyward (1746-1809), of White Hall Plantation, founder and first president of the South Carolina Agricultural Society, and later to be a signer of the Declaration of Independence, was admitted to Middle Temple in 1765, and to the Charleston bar in 1771. In 1778 he was made a circuit judge, but with the coming of the war to South Carolina, he became a soldier, again serving as judge 1784-1789. Like his father, Daniel Heyward, he was one of the wealthiest planters in South Carolina. See Dictionary of American Biography.