Jeremiah Forester seeks compensation for his slave, Jack, who “was tried by a court of magistrates and Freeholders for breaking and entering in the night time the store house of Mr. Philip C. Lester in Greenville District, and takeing thereupon sundry goods, and found guilty by the court; who sentenced the said negro man Jack to death." Describing himself as "poor and in extreme bad health," Forester explains that "this was the only negro which he owned, whose execution has deprived him of the most useful and essential piece of property which he owned." He therefore prays "that his case may be considered."
Result: Granted, allowed $122.44.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
