Petition #11380904

• filing started December 8, 1809.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the president, and Other Members of the Senate

Abstract

William Smith seeks compensation for a slave, George, who was convicted and executed "for the Crime of Seting fire to a parcel of Rye a Cotton Machine." Smith "prays your Honorable body to grant him such Compensation as are by law directed."

Result: Referred to committee.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

2 people are documented within petition 11380904

• 1 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 554-55
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 554-55

Subjects

• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Destruction of property