<petition><petition_analysis_number>11382911</petition_analysis_number><petition_url>https://dlas.uncg.edu/petitions/petition/11382911</petition_url><state>South Carolina</state><county>Colleton</county><location_type>District/Parish</location_type><file_day>24</file_day><file_month>10</file_month><file_year>1829</file_year><filing_court>Petition</filing_court><result>referred to Claims Committee</result><enslaved_count>1</enslaved_count><fpoc_count>0</fpoc_count><total_people_count>2</total_people_count><repository>South Carolina Department of Archives and History, Columbia, South Carolina</repository><abstract>Dr. Richard Jones represents that “in November last” a female slave named Eave, "the property of your petitioner," was "convicted of the offence of administering poison, and by a regularly constituted Court of Freeholders was sentenced to suffer death."  Noting that said "sentence has been put in execution," Jones "prays payment for the value of the said slave."  The court "Appraised and valued the said Negro Woman named Eve at one Hundred Dollars."</abstract><subjects><subject>Execution (enslaved)</subject><subject>Trials (enslaved)</subject><subject>Poisoning </subject><subject>Assessed Value (enslaved)</subject></subjects></petition>