11383403https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11383403South CarolinaGeorgetownDistrict/Parish22111834Petitionreferred to Claims Committee209South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaFive 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."Execution (enslaved)HomicideFreedom seekers