Johnston Craig and William Blackwood request compensation for the expenses incurred in traveling to testify at the trial of John Perry, a man "confined in Goal in the District of Edenton ... under a charge of stealing a negroe Boy and horse." They report that the said Perry "broke Goal and made his escape" the day before they arrived in Winsor. The men therefore pray the "Treasurer be directed to pay to them such sums of money as may appear to your Honorable body to be adequate to their trouble and expence in traveling four hundred miles at the Instance of the state of North Carolina."
Result: Reimbursement allowed.
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Repository: North Carolina Department of Archives and History, Raleigh, North Carolina
