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An Act for the benefit of Sarah W. Timberlake and her children. 1817 320 (1817)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsky0090 and id is 1 raw text is: ( siO ) Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commoavealth of Kentucky, That the state price bf fifty acres of land on which the said Francis M'Dermit now lives, be, and is hereby remitted ; and the register of the land-office shall, and is hereby authorised to issue a patent to the said Francis M'Derm it, without fee, for'the said fifty acres of land, on a plat being returned from the surveyor of Wayne county : Proided, however, that this act shall give the said Francis M'Der- mit no preference to the said land, if there be a prior and valid title to.the same. CTIAP. CLXvI. .n .3cT f(r the benefit of Sarah IF. Timberlake and her children, * APPROVED January 2, 1818. WIi EREAS it is represented to this present }reambk. general assembly, that Roger Thompson, dec'd. late of Mercer county, did, some years past, by (Ieed of trust, vestin thi hands of certain trustees, a number of slaves, to be held in trustfor the sup- port and benefit of his daughter Sarah W. Tim- berlake and her children, during her life, and after her death to belong to her children ; and that afterwards, by a similar deed of trust, dated the 18th day of January 1813, the said Roger Thompsoii did vest in the hands of his two sons, George W. Thompson and Foster Thompson, certain other negroes, to wit, Hagar and her three children, James, Milo and Philip. to be held by the said last mentioned trustees for the benefit of their sister the said Sarah, and her children, and after her death to belong to her children ; and that since the date of said last men- tioned deed, two of the slaves thereby conveyed, viz. James and Philip, have died, and the woman iUagar has two other children, Thruston and Preston. And whereas it is further represented, that the said Sarah W. Timberlake is destitute of any house or real estate of any kind whatever,. 3nd labors under great inconvenience for want o4

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