Peter Desverneys, a free person of color "now very much advanced in years" and "enfeebled by the failure of health combined with the decrepitude of age," seeks an increase in his "annuity of Fifty Dollars," which he received as remuneration for his part in the betrayal of the insurrection plotted by Denmark Vesey in 1822. With a large family to support and "now no longer able to work for their support," the petitioner "ventures to appeal to the generosity of the State to increase in his old age that bounty, which they voluntarily and of their own accord tendered to him in his youth."
Result: Favorable $150.
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Repository: South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina
