{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11379106","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11379106","state":"South Carolina","county":"St. Thomas","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":5,"file_month":12,"file_year":1791,"filing_court":"Legislative","result":"rejected","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Dr. John Syme, a St. Thomas Parish resident, represents that he \"obtained a Certificate in his favor for a Negro executed ... valued at six hundred Pounds Old Currency.\"  He further states that he presented said certificate to the South Carolina House of Representatives; it was then referred to the Committee on Certificates.  He asserts that on 3 March 1775, the report of the committee favoring Syme's claim was read and debated; two motions to defeat the question failed, and the House passed the report.  The petitioner declares, however, that \"he has never received Payment for the said executed Negro & therefore prays that such Relief be granted to him in the Premises.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Execution (enslaved)"}]}]}