Petition #11384503

• Abbeville District/Parish, South Carolina. filing started November 12, 1845.
• Court: Petition
• Salutation: To the Honorable the Legislature of the State of South Carolina

Abstract

Joseph Burton seeks compensation for a slave, Abel, who was convicted of "the offence of a Rape on a white Girl by the name of Susan Fife." Burton states that "in pursuance of said sentence he was hung till he was dead, whereby your Petitioner has entirely lost his said slave."

Result: Referred to claims committee.

• Number of petition pages: 2
• Related documents: Certificate, Thomas Roberts, 12 November 1845; Affidavit, Samuel Cochran, 13 November 1845; Sponsor: Thomas Chiles Perrin, House, Abbeville District (1842-1845)
• Pages of related documents: 1

2 people are documented within petition 11384503

• 1 Enslaved
• 1 Petitioner

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Citation information

Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina

• Records of the General Assembly
• Page: frames 1285-87
• Microfilm: Reel #1, frames 1285-87

Subjects

• Execution (enslaved)
• Trials (enslaved)
• Rape