Ninety-two citizens of St. Luke and St. Peter parishes commend "the patriotic and highly meritorious conduct of a negro man of the name of Abram, the property of Mr William Kirk." They report that the said Abram detected a plan "by a number of blacks" to destroy "the lives of your petitioners, and of all the white people of the low Country" and that they "had appointed the time and place, and actually assembled for the direful purpose of commencing the work of general massacre and devastation." By Abram's actions, "those immediately concerned were easily and speedily apprehended and have undergone the punishment due to the enormity of their crimes." The petitioners recommend that "a suitable reward for his fidelity and services" be afforded Abram and, if "your honorable body should think proper to emancipate the said Abram," they aver the said Kirk should receive "an ample and handsome compensation," as he suffered "by having Three of the only five fellows which belonged to him, executed."
Result: Referred to committee; reported on; bill drawn.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
