The petitioners, as "assignees of Messr Robinson and Carter," are the owners "of a negro Slave named Billy," who “was apprehended in July last for being concerned in the recent attempt at Insurrection in the City of Charleston." Davenport and Crocker assert that Billy "was tried by the Court of Magistrates & Freeholders ... [and] was Sentenced to death"; the governor, however, "has respited the said Slave and commuted his punishment to Transportation beyond the limits of the United States." Noting that Billy "is now in confinement awaiting the departure of some vessel in which he will be sent away," the petitioners pray that "a reasonable compensation may be awarded to them for the loss which they have thus sustained." The petitioners state that Billy "was worth at the time of his apprehension the sum of Seven hundred dollars."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina