John B. O'Neall, guardian of Marcus McLemore, seeks to sell two slaves belonging to his ward. O'Neall informs the court that McLemore "is entitled to two negro men slaves towit Anthony and Adam which are now in the possession of your petitioner." He recounts that "the boy Anthony has been tried and convicted of an assaut and battery, upon the person of Mrs E. D. Reid, with an intent to commit a rape." O'Neall cites that Anthony was "sentenced to be hung, which sentance has been commuted, by the Govener, to two hundred and fifty lashes and banishment from the state for life." The petitioner charges that "the other boy Adam is ungovernable and a great runaway and otherwise of bad character." Believing "it would be to the interest of his ward to have both of the aforesaid slaves sold," the petitioner prays that he may be granted "an order to sell the said slaves either at public or private sale."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
