Petition #11382322

Abstract

Dr. Francis Porcher seeks compensation for his slave Welcome who died while working on a public road leading from Savannah to Coosawatchee. Porcher relates that "a great deal of competition was excited among some of the slaves in the execution of the labour that had been assigned them, and in consequence of the great exertion made by your Petitioners slave he was overcome and died on the spot." Porcher therefore prays "that his case may be taken into consideration by your Honorable House, and that such relief as is usually extended to the owners of slaves who are lost in the service of the Public may be granted to him." A statement from two public roads commissioners attests that Welcome "was employed as an axeman" and that his exertion coupled with "the heat of the season was the cause of his sudden death." They "consider the said fellow to have been as valuable as most Slaves, and well worth Six hundred Dollars."

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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