Petition #11382611

• filing started circa 1826.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Sepaker and others members of the House of Representatives [of South Carolina]

Abstract

David Murray seeks compensation for the slave Sandy, who was tried and convicted of the offense of "grievously beating a white man by the name of Philip Slagle" in December 1825; Sandy was "executed on the 30th of said month." The petitioner therefore prays "your Honorable body to allow him such compensation for the loss of his said slave as to your Honorable body may seem meet."

Result: Granted; allowed $120.40.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Deposition, Hilray Murray, Lincoln County, Georgia, 17 October 1826; Copy of Record of Court of Justices and Freeholders, Lancaster District, State v. Negro Sandy, December 1825
• Pages of related documents: 7

2 people are documented within petition 11382611

• 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: frames1216-24
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames1216-24

Subjects

• Jails/Workhouses
• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Assault
• Assessed Value (enslaved)