{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11383403","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11383403","state":"South Carolina","county":"Georgetown","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":22,"file_month":11,"file_year":1834,"filing_court":"Petition","result":"referred to Claims Committee","enslaved_count":2,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":9,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"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.\"","subjects":[{"subject":"Execution (enslaved)"},{"subject":"Homicide"},{"subject":"Freedom seekers"}]}]}