Petition #11381902

• filing started circa 1819.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives of the State of South Carolina

Abstract

Martin Peagler states that his "negro Slave named Spencer was executed [in] August eighteen hundred and nineteen ... for attempting to take his life." Peagler "therefore prays your honorable body to grant him such remuneration as is made and provided in such cases."

Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: See PAR #11381901
• Pages of related documents: 0

2 people are documented within petition 11381902

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 585-86
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 588-86

Subjects

• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Homicide
• Assault