Arthur Davis requests compensation for his horse which was pressed into service by Captain Thomas Waddill during a search for slaves suspected of plotting an insurrection. He maintains that his horse took sick and later died after being ridden five miles by a militia officer. Davis discloses that "he is a young man with a wife and two small children dependent on him for support, that this was the only horse which he owned and that from his limited circumstances, he is but illy ably to purchase another, and that he is the owner of no slaves."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
