Benjamin Scott seeks compensation for his slave Lamb, who "was apprehended and charged with having concerted a plan of Insurrection, which he confessed, and was executed." Scott maintains that, "as he was not taken in Actual Rebellion, and as from the Circumstances of the Case it is hardly probable he would have been able to have raised even a small party to join him," said slave "well deserved to be made a public Example for his Conduct," but that "where Individual Interest is destroyed for the public Good, that the loss ought to fall on the public in general, and not on the Individual." He therefore prays that his case be considered and that he be granted "such Relief in the premises as shall seem meet & proper."
Result: Referred to claims committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
