Martha Miggins represents that she purchased a slave named Sara at public auction from the estate of Hopkin Price about 14 January 1782. She further states that at the time of said purchase, the confiscation act had not yet been passed. Miggins reports that she sold Sara to a man from Charleston named Spencer, who recently informed her that "he is under the necessity of delivering up the said Negro to the Commissioners of Confiscated Estates, and that he shall expect to be reimbursed." The petitioner therefore "humbly prays your honourable house to take her necessitous case into their consideration and grant her such relief as, in their wisdom, they shall see fit."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
