Petition #11383111

• Abbeville District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started November 23, 1831.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Speaker and the Other Members of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina

Abstract

Dr. John S. Reid reports that he "was summoned to attend upon a Jury of Inquest ... for the purpose of enquiring into the causes which led to the sudden death of a negro woman named Phillida the property of Lucretia J. Finney then in the employment of another person, and who was supposed to have come to her death from excessive chastisement said to have been inflicted on her." The petitioner “believes himself justly entitled to receive payment" for his services.

Result: Referred to the medical committee; $20.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Medical Bill, 4 June 1828; Sworn Statement, John Reid, 21 November 1831; Affidavit, Robert McCashin, 21 November 1831; Affidavit, James Glasgow, 21 November 1831; John Reid to Treasurer of the Upper Division of South Carolina, 17 November 1831; Sponsor, David Lewis Wardlaw, House, Abbeville (1826-1829, 1831-1841)
• Pages of related documents: 4

3 people are documented within petition 11383111

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner
• 1 Other

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Citation information

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

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 952-57
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 952-57

Subjects

• Death of enslaved (other)