Petition #11379801

• Charleston District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started December 4, 1798.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: South Carolina To the Honorable Speaker & Members of the House of Representatives

Abstract

John Desbeaux seeks compensation for his slave Figaro. Figaro, along with two other slaves, was convicted of treason. Figaro and John Louis were sentenced to be "hanged by the neck until their bodies be dead"; the third slave, Chappelle, was to be "confined in some proper secure place untill an opportunity offers to ship him out of the State to any place out of the United States."

Result: Referred to committee of accounts; not allowed.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Copy of the Record of the Court of Justices and Freeholders, Charleston, State v. Figaro, John Louis, Cappelle, French Negroes, 20 November 1798; Certificate of Execution, Charleston, 23 November 1798; see PARs #11880005, #11380010
• Pages of related documents: 4

4 people are documented within petition 11379801

• 3 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 488-94
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 488-94

Subjects

• Caribbean Islands, migration from/to
• Jails/Workhouses
• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Insurrections/Revolts (enslaved)