Twenty-five citizens of Union County seek compensation for Jemima McJunkin. They aver that Capt. Samuel McJunkin was "inhumanly Murdered by his own Negro Man, for which inhuman Act said Negro has been executed agreeable to the Laws of the State." They deplore that by such murder "a worthy Woman has been bereft of a kind indulgent husband; and five children have been deprived of a kind, industrious provident Father -- and by the execution of said Negro (so justly inflicted) they have been deprived of part of the means of their future support." Noting that "by the existing laws of the State no compensation is allowed to the owner of a Slave executed for murder," the petitioners pray that "your Honours will take the case of the said Jemima G. McJunkin and Family into consideration, and grant such compensation as to Justice and humanity doth belong."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
