Petition #11382118

Abstract

Edward Brailsford seeks compensation for two runaway slaves who were shot down by a patrol pursuing "a body of run away negroes, ... who had enticed two of your Petitioner's primest fellows to join them." He avows that said gang was "becoming daily more and more offensive to all in the vicinity ... repeatedly committing depredations on their property." The petitioner declares a body of men was summoned "to patrole the Country, for the express purpose of pursuing, taking, or firing upon such as would not surrender"; in pursuance of said orders, "the property of your petitioner was shot, and killed." Describing said slaves as "young, and athletic, and truly valuable fellows," Brailsford prays that "your Honorable House will take into consideration the loss experienced on this occasion, in the death of these two prime young fellows for the good of the community, and that your petitioner may be amply remunerated for the loss of property thus sustained."

Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.

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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

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