Petition #11382807

Abstract

John Reid, "a Practitioner of Medicine," seeks payment of thirty dollars for services rendered to "a Jury of Inquest for the Abbeville District." Reid reports that said jury was assembled "for the purpose of inquiring into the causes which led to the sudden death of a negro woman, named Phillida, the property of Mrs Lucretia J. Finney then in the employment of another person." Reid relates that said Phillida "was supposed to have come to her death from excessive chastisement said to have been inflicted on her" and that he, "as a Physician was required by said Jury of Inquest to examine the dead body of the said negro woman." Believing "himself justly entitled to receive payment of the amount herein after charged," Reid states that $30 is "a moderate and not above the usual charge of Physicians in such cases,” which β€œhe respectfully solicits from the Legislature of the State.”

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

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