11379406https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11379406South CarolinaCharlestonDistrict/Parish10121794Legislative001South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South CarolinaElizabeth 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.”Theft of enslaved