Bowling & Boucher v. Winslow's Adm'r.

Nancy H. Waters died in 1836, leaving, among other things, several slaves.. The children of James Jones, dec’d., and Pamela Bowling and Elizabeth Boucher, were her heirs, and as such, entitled to the distribution of her estate, each one third. Benjamin S. Flieatt administered on her estate, and taking possession of the slaves, hired them out until the latter part of the year 1839, when the children of Jones filed their bill for a sale of the slaves and a small tract of land, with a view to a division, and a settlement of the estate. Mrs. Boucher and Bowling and their husbands, filed their…