The{136} old man died while on a visit to his daughter, in Hillsborough, where Capt.

Auld and Mrs.
Lucretia now lived.

The former, having given up the command of Col.
Lloyd's sloop, was now keeping a store in that town.
Cut off, thus unexpectedly, Capt.

Anthony died intestate; and his property must now be equally divided between his two children, Andrew and Lucretia.
The valuation and the division of slaves, among contending heirs, is an important incident in slave life.

The character and tendencies of the heirs, are generally well understood among the slaves who are to be divided, and all have their aversions and preferences.