Benjamin Scott seeks compensation for his slave Lamb, who "was apprehended and charged with having concerted a Plan of Insurrection, which the said Negro confessed, and was executed." Scott maintains that, "as no overt Act was committed and as the pease of the State was not broken," said slave "deserved to be made a public Example for his Conduct," but that "where Individual Interest is destroyed for public Good, that the loss sho'd fall on the public and not altogether on the Individual." He therefore prays that his case be considered and that he be granted "such Relief as in your Wisdom & Justice you may deem meet."
Result: Referred to committee on claims.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
