11379403https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11379403South CarolinaMarlboroughDistrict/Parish4121794Legislativereferred to Committee of Accounts102South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaThomas 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."Execution (enslaved)Trials (enslaved)Rape