Dr. Jean Lewis Raoul seeks compensation for his slave Stephon, who "had absconded from your petitioner, and had joined a Set of outlaws" and who was later "apprehended, tried & convicted of divers felonies of which he had been guilty whilst he had so absconded as aforesaid from your petitioner & was executed." The petitioner also seeks compensation for a female slave "who had been forced from the Employment of your petitioner by the famous out Law Joe otherwise Called forest." Raoul recounts that "said woman was in the Camp of these outlaws, when attacked that in firing into the Camp, the said negro woman was so Severely wounded as to render her of no value."
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
