{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11381408","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11381408","state":"South Carolina","county":"Fairfield","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_year":1814,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to Claims Committee","enslaved_count":1,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":4,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"John Cook of Georgia states that his wife, Mary Ellen Hampton Cook, \"became entitled to a certain negroe man, by name Ellis\" as a legatee in the will of her maternal grandfather, George Dawkins.  Cook reveals that his father-in-law, Colonel Edward Hampton, was killed during the American Revolution and that the said Ellis was accidentally shot and killed by militia in pursuit \"of certain persons known to be inimical to the cause of this country.\"  Noting that his wife has never received any kind of remuneration \"for this accidental misfortune,\" the petitioner prays \"for some indemnification in right of his wife.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Militias\/Patrols"},{"subject":"Homicide"},{"subject":"Death of enslaved (other)"},{"subject":"Veterans"}]}]}