Dr. Edward Ware, a resident of Athens, Georgia, seeks compensation for a runaway slave, Pressly, who absconded three-and-a-half years ago. He reports that Pressly made his way to South Carolina, "was arrested in the City of Charleston and lodged in the work House as a fugitive, that he assumed the name of Joe Brown and pretended to be free." Ware further relates that "under that name he was duly advertised and sold" and that "in consequence of the assumed name and the pretended and assumed freedom of said slave, no notice whatever ever reached your petitioner as to his arrest and confinement in the work House." Noting that $392.66 (the net proceeds from the sale of said Pressly) has been deposited in the state treasury, Ware prays "that the sum of money now in the Treasury of the state arising from the sale of the slave of your Petitioner be directed by your Honorable Body to be paid over to him."
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
