11380904https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11380904South Carolina8121809Petitionreferred to committee102South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaWilliam Smith seeks compensation for a slave, George, who was convicted and executed "for the Crime of Seting fire to a parcel of Rye a Cotton Machine." Smith "prays your Honorable body to grant him such Compensation as are by law directed."Execution (enslaved)Trials (enslaved)Destruction of property