William Royall seeks compensation for Jack, his "valuable Negro fellow about 30 Years of Age who was lately prosecuted convicted & executed for the Murder of a Negro woman [Beck] also belonging to Your Petitioner." Royall admits that the "loss of two such Prime Hands is Particularly hard and unfortunate to Your Petitioner whose pecuniary circumstances are by no means eligible." He therefore prays that "Your Honble Body not to make any deduction from the inconsiderable Sum of two Hundred Dollars," which is what the Court of Magistrates and Freeholders assessed Jack's value to be.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
