11379404https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11379404South CarolinaMarlboroughDistrict/Parish4121794Legislativereferred to committee102South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaThomas Bingham represents that in 1776 "a negroe fellow slave named Toney the property of your petitioner was tried & Executed agreable 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 Genl 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