Petition #11383508

• Sumter District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started November 27, 1835.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Senate & House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina in General Assembly met

Abstract

John Bradley seeks compensation for his slave Moses, who was killed by "the falling of a tree" while working on a public road between two plantations in Claremont County, Sumter District. Moses, who was twenty-one or twenty-two years old, was worth five hundred dollars.

Result: Granted $500.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #11383102, #11383109, #11383112, #11383507, #11383605; Precedent, Acts of Assembly, 1821, p. 67; ibid., 1816, p. 78; ibid., 1818, p. 103; ibid., 1830, p. 17; Affidavit, Dr. James Haynsworth, Sumter District, 27 November 1835; Sponsor: Thomas Dugan Jr., Senate, Claremont District (1830-1838)
• Pages of related documents: 2

2 people are documented within petition 11383508

• 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 1024-27
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 1024-27

Subjects

• Non-plantation/Non-household work (enslaved)
• Death of enslaved (other)
• Assessed Value (enslaved)