Petition #11380005

Abstract

Benjamin Langstaff, administrator of the estate of John Langstaff, seeks compensation for the slave John Louis. John Louis, along with two other slaves, was convicted of treason. John Louis and Figara were sentenced to be "hanged by the neck until their bodies be dead"; the third slave, Chappelle, was to be "confined in some proper secure place untill an opportunity offers to ship him out of the State to any place out of the United States."

Result: Referred to committee.

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

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