Case Name: Mary Smith Guardian of John, Adam and Mary Daniel On Petition
Court: Court of Chancery of South Carolina
Jurisdiction: South Carolina
Decision Date: 1748-05-06
Citations: 1 Rec. Co. Ch. (S.C.) 416
Docket Number: 
Parties: Mary Smith Guardian of John, Adam and Mary Daniel On Petition
Judges: Present, His Excellency, The Governor; The Honorable James Kinloch, Edmond Atkin, William Middleton, Edward Fenwick, Hector Berenger de Beaufain, Esquires of his Majesty’s Council for executing the Office of Chancellor; William Pinckney Master of this Court.
Reporter: Records of the court of Chancery of South Carolina, 1671-1779
Volume: 1
Pages: 416–417

Head Matter:
Present, His Excellency, The Governor; The Honorable James Kinloch, Edmond Atkin, William Middleton, Edward Fenwick, Hector Berenger de Beaufain, Esquires of his Majesty’s Council for executing the Office of Chancellor; William Pinckney Master of this Court.
Mary Smith Guardian of John, Adam and Mary Daniel On Petition
At this session two new members are present:
Edward Fenwick (1726-1775), son of John Fenwick, supra, and heir to most of his estate, was probably appointed to his place on the Council. On the eve of the Revolution, when he died in New York, his widow and sons chartered a sloop to bring home his body. Fenwick Hall, his seat on John’s Island, where his celebrated stud was maintained, has been handsomely restored by the late Victor Morawitz of New York, and is now the home of C. W. Blanchard of Charleston. (SCHGM, VII, 27, 28; XIII, 64.)
Hector Berenger de Beaufain (1699-1766), ivas born at Orange, France, came to South Carolina in 1733 and for some years was a justice of the peace at Purrysburg; later he moved to Charleston and became collector of customs. A man of education and culture, a fellow of the Royal Society, and a relative of Queen Caroline, he was for thirty-three years a beloved and important figure in Charleston society. (R. L. Meriwether, The Expansion of South Carolina, if 29-*765, 1940, pp. 38, 39; A. R. H. and D. E. H.' Smith, The Dwelling Houses of Charleston, South Carolina, 1917, p. 316; SCHGM, XX, 212, note.)

Opinion:
Upon the Humble Petition, this day preferred to this Court, of Mary Smith Executrix of the last Will and Testament of John Daniel Shipwright deceased, and Natural Guardian of the Persons and Estates of John, Adam and Mary Daniel Infants Children of the said John Daniel deceased, And on Reading and Considering the same; It is Ordered, That the Facts in the said Petition set forth be referred to the Master of this Court to inquire into the same, And that upon a View and Survey of the Wooden Tenement in the Petition mentioned, he make his Report unto this Court, whether it will require as much or near as much Expence to repair the Same with Timber as wholly to rebuild the Same with Brick and that he make an Estimate of the Charge attending the Same, To the end that if it shall appear upon Such Inquiry, that the Expence of repairing the Said Tenement with Timber will amount to near as large a Sum, as the rebuilding the Same with Brick, That then the Said Mary may be permitted to rebuild the Same of Brick out of the Said Orphans money in her hands.
Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Chancery
Upon Consideration this present day had of the humble Petition of Samuel Evans William Screven and James Screven Executors of the last Will and Testament of Jonathan Evans late of this Province Planter Deceased; For-asmuch as it appeared to this Court, that, if the Prayer of the Said Petition should be Granted, The last Will of the Testator would be thereby Superseded, Therefore the Said Petition is Dismissed.
Alexr Stewart Deputy Register in Chancery
William and James Screven were Baptists of James Island (Townsend, S. C. Baptists, pp. 16, 17).