Petition #11385804

Abstract

William Boyd seeks compensation for an injury he sustained while attempting to overtake three runaway slaves. Seeing the three pass near his house and supposing "from their dress and appearance" that they were runaways, Boyd and several others set out in pursuit. With the aid of dogs, they chased the slaves ten miles. When they finally caught up with the fugitives, a desperate struggle ensued, and Boyd was struck by a rock on his right arm. The runaways were finally subdued by a force of about forty-five or fifty men. Body acknowledges that "the fracture of his right arm ... has given him great pain and rendered the arm almost useless." He therefore prays that "the matter may be taken into consideration by your Honorable body, and such relief granted as the nature of the case may require."

Result: Referred to claims committee.

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

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