David Rodgers seeks compensation for "the untimely death" of his slave Pompey during the summer of 1819. Rodgers recounts that "a pretty large gang, to the number of seven Negroes, had associated, and imbodied themselves together, committing depredations of various kinds, on the property of the Inhabitants." He further reports that the militia was called out and "it was eventually thought to be, by the Colonel of the Regiment, indispensably necessary, that the People should turn out with Fire Arms, and quell the Negroes in their nefarious acts"; as a result, Pompey "was shot dead." Rodgers states that Pompey at the time of his death was between forty and forty-five years old; was worth between nine hundred and one thousand dollars; and was "a good Boat hand, a very prime field hand; a good Sawyer, And was quite handy in the use of Mechanical Tools." He also notes that Pompey "had sustained previous to being killed, uniformly, a good character, with the exception of running away once or twice." Rodgers therefore prays that he receive "remuneration for the loss which he has sustained."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
