Petition #11382117

• Pendleton District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started October 1821.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Speaker and other Members of the House of Representatives of the Legislature of South Carolina

Abstract

Wyat Smith seeks compensation for his female slave Cela, who was executed on 22 April 1820 for killing one of his children.

Result: Referred to claims committee; rejected.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Certificate of Execution, 22 April 1820; see PAR #11382115; Sponsor: Benjamin Franklin Dickson, House, Pendleton District (1818-1821)
• Pages of related documents: 2

2 people are documented within petition 11382117

• 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 589-92
• Microfilm: Reel #2, frames 589-92

Subjects

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