{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11381407","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11381407","state":"South Carolina","county":"Edgefield","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_year":1814,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to Claims Committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":2,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Martin Witt states that \"his negro man named Ned was in the month of July 1812 Executed for burglary.\"  Declaring that \"he is a very poor Man with a family of Children to support,\" the petitioner prays that his case be taken into consideration and that he be granted \"such Compensation for the loss of said negro as in your Wisdom you may seem meet.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Execution (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Theft by enslaved"},{"subject":"Assessed Value (enslaved)"}]}]}