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 & was executed." Scott maintains that, "as no overt act was committed, and as the pease of the State was not broken," said slave "well deserved to be made a public Example for his Conduct," but that "where individual property is destroyed for public Good, that the loss ought to fall on the public in general and not on the Individual." He therefore prays that "your Honorable Body will take his Case into Consideration and grant him 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
