William Grinder informs the legislature that "the only Negro slave which he owned and possessed" was lately convicted of murdering Morgan Meeks and was "found guilty condemned and executed." Grinder proclaims that "is now poor and compelled to labor in his old age for a support by reason of the {conversion] to public use of his aforesaid slave." He therefore prays that an act be passed to remunerate him "in some manner" for "the loss of his property."
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