Petition #11278902

• New Hanover County, North Carolina. filing started November 26, 1789.
• Court: Legislative
• Salutation: The Honorable the General Assembly

Abstract

John Walker seeks compensation for his slave Galloway, who was "a Valluable Tradesman" killed in 1780 as an outlawed runaway, "lurking in Swamps, Woods, and other obscure Places, committing Injuries to the Inhabitants of this State."

Result: House, senate: read, referred to claims.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Affidavit of John Moore, 21 November 1785; Declaration of Galloway as an Outlaw, 10 May 1780
• Pages of related documents: 4

2 people are documented within petition 11278902

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina

• General Assembly, Session Records, Joint Standing Committee of Propositions and Grievances, November--December 1789

Subjects

• Homicide
• Freedom seekers
• Assessed Value (enslaved)