Mary Ellis seeks compensation for her "negro wench," who was "willfully killed" by one Nicholas Rholer. She reports that she "did obtain a warrant and did cause to be apprehended and Bound over the Said Nicholas Rholer to the Court." She further recounts that after the said Rholer "was so recognized he absconded." Ellis asserts that she "would have been intitled by law to a moity of the fine imposed upon the said Nicholas Rholer had he been tried and convicted." The petitioner therefore prays that "she receive one moity of the monies to be recovered on the forfeited recognizance."
Result: Referred to claims committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
