Petition #11380013

• filing started circa 1800.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: To the Honble Theodore Gaillard Esq. Speaker & the other Members of the Honble the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina

Abstract

William Somarsall seeks compensation for his slave, September, who was "condemned and executed for Murder." He avers that September was "valued & appraised at one Hundred Pounds Sterling" by the Court of Justices and Freeholders. The petitioner therefore "submits his Case & relies on the Justice of the legislature to afford him such relief" as his circumstance may require.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Pages of related documents: 0

2 people are documented within petition 11380013

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

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

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 509-10
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 509-10

Subjects

• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Homicide
• Assessed Value (enslaved)