Mary Moseley laments that her husband, while on "a hunting Excursion," was mortally wounded by a runaway slave. She recounts that her husband Mason saw "a Negro fellow Indeavouring to hide himself from his View" and that when Mason approached "nearer his suspision was Confirm'd that he was a Runaway." She states that he ordered said "Negro to strip of his Cloathes to Search if he had any offensive weapons about him"; finding none, Mason made the man "go on Before him to the house." The petitioner reports that when her husband "got nearer to him than what was Necessary the Negro Catch'd the oppertunity" and stabbed Mason "in his Belly with a Knife which he had Kept Conceal'd." Mary states that, despite medical assistance, her husband "Lingered in Great pain" and died two days after the incident. The petitioner, "a Widdow Left in a Distress Situation," asks that she be granted "such Remedy as meets the approbation of the Genl Assembly."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
