Ninety-three residents of Henry County join seventy-year-old William Bailey in requesting that he receive compensation for a twenty-three-year-old slave who was killed "by the fall of tree whilst he was at work as a hand under an overseer of a publick high road." Bailey avows that said slave was "the only negro he had" and that "he would at the time of his death have commanded five hundred dollars." The petitioners therefore pray that Bailey, who "shouldered a gun" against the "British Tyrants" in his "youthful days," be granted "a reasonable compensation for the loss of said negro."
Result: Reported "unreasonable".
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Repository: Tennessee State Library and Archives, Nashville, Tennessee
