Thomas Carey requests compensation for the expenses he incurred capturing and imprisoning George Parker, a black man charged with the rape of Hannah Bramble. Carey states that he searched in Philadelphia and throughout Pennsylvania and Delaware for the accused and traded a horse worth $60 for information about Parker's exact hiding place. He captured Parker near Frederica, Delaware, in Kent County and lodged him in the local jail. Carey "relying on that zeal for the due execution of Justice and prevention of crimes of so wicked a nature" prays that "he may by Law be reimbursed the value of his Said Horse with his costs and charges, and allowed Such compensation for his trouble in bringing the Said Negro George to Justice, as to your Honors may seem equitable and right."
Result: House: read, referred to committee; senate, read.
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Repository: Delaware State Archives, Dover, Delaware
