Petition #11383605

• Sumter District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started November 7, 1836.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the honorabel the Senate & House of Representatives of the S[t]ate of South Carolina

Abstract

John Bradley seeks compensation for his twenty-year-old slave Moses, who was killed in 1831 while working on a public road. Having "been deprived of a young negro," Bradley surmises that Moses was worth six hundred dollars at the time of his death and "he would now have sold for $1000."

Result: Granted.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: PARs #11383102, #11383109, #11383112, #11383507, #11383508; Sworn Oath, Wood F. Monk, Sumter District, 4 January 1836; Sworn Oath, Dr. James Haynsworth, Sumter District, 18 November 1836; Sponsor: Thomas Dugan Jr., Senate, Claremont District (1830-1838)
• Pages of related documents: 4

2 people are documented within petition 11383605

• 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 1033-38
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 1033-38

Subjects

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