{"petition":[{"petition_analysis_number":"11379406","petition_url":"https:\/\/dlas.uncg.edu\/petitions\/petition\/11379406","state":"South Carolina","county":"Charleston","location_type":"District\/Parish","file_day":10,"file_month":12,"file_year":1794,"filing_court":"Legislative","enslaved_count":0,"fpoc_count":0,"total_people_count":1,"repository":"South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina","abstract":"Elizabeth Deveaux states that, in 1782, “when the City of Charleston was a British Garrison Some Americans unknown took a Boat & three negroes, the Property of your Petitioner, coming from Wando Plantation, to the City, with a few Necessaries for Family Use, & carried them to General Marion’s Camp at Watboo Bridge.”  She further asserts that said property was sold “upon a Supposition of having violated Governor [John] Mathew's Proclamation.\"  Deveaux declares that she “has been deprived of any Satisfaction or Compensation for the same to the great Injury of her & a large Family in Distress.”  She therefore “humbly prays such Relief as in your Humanity you will please to Grant.”","subjects":[{"subject":"Theft of enslaved"}]}]}