Dr. Hugh Davitt asks to be compensated for his attendance "as a surgeon" on Joel Foster, who was arrested "for the crimes of negroe and horse stealing." Davitt recounts that the said Foster, "at the time of his arrest ... attempted to make his escape when he received a dangerous wound from the shot of a gun." The petitioner "further states that his services while attending on the said prisoner amounted to the sum of twenty six dollars, which he prays may be paid." Foster was later executed in Abbeville.
Result: Referred to claims committee; granted.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
