<petition><petition_analysis_number>11380905</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11380905</petition_url><state>South Carolina</state><county>Orangeburgh</county><location_type>District/Parish</location_type><file_year>1809</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><result>referred to Claims Committee</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina</repository><abstract>Timothy Barton seeks compensation for his slave named Jack, who "was arrested for wounding and maiming a white man by the name of William Fairey, and by a Court of Justices and freeholders was tried for his life and was sentenced to be executed for the Same."  Citing that Jack was valued at $400 before his death, the petitioner "prays your Honorable body to make such provision for his Indemnity as you may think him entitled to."</abstract><subjects><subject>Execution (enslaved)</subject><subject>Trials (enslaved)</subject><subject>Assault</subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>