Five citizens of Georgetown District recommend that the owners of two slaves named Jack and Tom be paid "a suitable & proper reward." In a sworn affidavit, Eleanor Waterman, owner of the said slave Tom, affirms that in 1822 "the neighbourhood of Georgetown was infested by a gang of lawless & desperate runaways -- that in June of said year George R Ford Esquire was murdered on his own plantation by a part of this gang -- that Jack & Tom (two negro men) at every hazard arrested one of the runaways, and it was through their means that the murderer was taken, brought to trial, and executed -- and the whole gang dispersed."
Result: Referred to claims committee.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
