William Ware seeks compensation for his thirty-year-old slave named Jim, who was "Kiled by Endeavouring to take a Runaway Negro By the Name of Sam, the property of Andrew Agnew." Ware states that Sam "had been Run away for Six Month and had plundered the Settlement." The petitioner recounts that he directed "My Negroes to watch & take him [Sam] or give me some Intelligene & try to Decoy him So that I could Get hold of him”; he laments that "Unfortunately for him & Me [the slave Jim] was stabed to the Heart" and died the same day. Noting that he purchased Jim for $507 "a Year or Two Before," Ware asserts that his slave "was doing a Laudable Act Both to State & Society by apprehending such Villions who absconded their Masters plantation.” The petitioner therefore prays that his case be duly considered and that he be granted "such Relief as he thinks he is Intitled to."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
