11381902https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11381902South Carolina1819Petitionreferred to Claims Committee; rejected102South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaMartin 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."Execution (enslaved)Trials (enslaved)HomicideAssault