11279513https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11279513North CarolinaNew HanoverCounty11111795Legislative11111795Legislativerejected001North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North CarolinaHenry Taylor requests compensation for being shot in the shoulder while hunting runaway slaves. Taylor recounts that he endeavored "to put a stop" to the depredations committed by "a number of outlying runaway [that] had collected themselves together" to rob and to kill and destroy the stock of "the Inhabitants of the counties of Brunswick and New Hanover." While on such duty, he explains, a fellow patroller, being suddenly awakened by him, "shot your memorialist through the Shoulder." Unable to pay the surgeon's fee of £60, Taylor asks "your Honorable body to take his case into consideration and grant him such releif as you shall think meet and proper."Militias/PatrolsInsurrections/Revolts (enslaved)Freedom seekersDestruction of propertyAssaultMedical treatment