Petition #11380302

• Abbeville District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started November 12, 1803.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable President of the Senate and the rest of the members of the state aforesaid in general assembly met

Abstract

Samuel Harris seeks compensation for his twenty-year-old slave Harry, who was killed 26 March 1802 by "the fall of a tree" while working on the public road from Vienna to Abbeville Courthouse. Harris "entreats your honorable body to take into consideration his unfortunate case and begs that you would allow compensation for the property aforesaid which he has lost in the public service." Harry, "a good field hand and a tolerable good blacksmith," was valued at $600.

Result: Referred to committee.

• Number of petition pages: 3
• Related documents: Appraisal, November 1803; Affidavit, John Newby, 12 November 1803; see PARs #11380202, #11380203, #11380303
• Pages of related documents: 1

2 people are documented within petition 11380302

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 136-39
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames136-39

Subjects

• Non-plantation/Non-household work (enslaved)
• Skills (enslaved)
• Death of enslaved (other)
• Assessed Value (enslaved)