Petition #11382203

Abstract

James Evans confides "that it has been his misfortune to have one of his negro men named George Sentenced ... to Transportation" beyond the state for his role in the insurrection in the Charleston; the sentence states: "That the Prisoner George remain in the Work-House of Charleston untill his master under the direction of the City Council of Charleston shall send him out of the limits of the United States into which he is not to return Under penalty of death." Evans admits that "he is at a loss to know how to proceed." He therefore submits his request that "your Honorable Body ... will return [George] to me or take him for the use of the State at the price he has been appraised at," which is $800. Evans concludes that thirty-five-year-old George "is a good Stone cutter and marble Polisher ... and has always been an honest ... Negro."

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

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