Petition #11379403
- Marlborough District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started December 4, 1794.
- Court: Legislative
- Salutation: South Carolina Marlborough County} To the Honble the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives
Abstract
Thomas Bingham represents that in 1776 "a negro man slave named Toney the property of your petitioner was tried and executed agreeable to Law for Commiting a rape on the body of a white woman." Bingham further asserts that "a certificate of his appraisment and Execution were placed in the hands of Gen Tristram Thomas to return to the Auditors office but he unfortunately lost the Same." The petitioner therefore prays that his case be considered and that he be granted "such relief as in your Wisdom shall seem meet."
Result: Referred to committee of accounts.
- Number of petition pages: 2
- Related documents: Affidavits, Tristram Thomas, 10 November 1794, 12 December 1794; see PAR #11379404; a Brigadier General of the Ninth Brigade (ca. 1794-1804), Tristram Thomas fought in the American Revolution, and served in the South Carolina Senate representing St. David Parish (1783), Marlboro, Chesterfield, and Darlington (1794-1797)
- Pages of related documents: 3
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Citation information
Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
- Records of the General Assembly
- Page: frames 467-71
- Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 467-71
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