William Ancrum seeks relief from a fine amounting to £1,495, "the one half of which to be paid in special Indents and the other half in the paper medium." Ancrum recounts that, in July 1782, "Thirty one Negroes late the property of your Memorialist were by order of Gov. Mathewes taken and sold at Camden for Specie for the use of the State amounting to Seven hundred and forty six Guineas." He further states that, when a House resolution in 1788 permitted discounts of "audited demands against the State," he sought to settle his amercement, but the state refused. Ancrum argues that the 1788 resolution applies only to those who do not have "audited demands against the State" and therefore asks for relief. He also laments that he "is unhappily subject to the payment of a large British debt."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
