SC, 1760, Court Records
Rewards to Negro Men Maurice, Frank, Tom

Thursday the 26th Day of June 1760.

"... The House resumed the Adjourned Consideration of the second reading of the Residue of the Schedule to the Tax Bill.

And the Schedule being read a second time, throughout.

Resolved, That A325 be given as a Reward to a Negro Man named Maurice, belonging to the Estate of Henry Izard Esqr., deceased, for apprehending a Criminal who had committed several Murders.

Resolved, That a Reward of A310 be given to a Negro Man named Frank, and the like Sum to a Negro Man named Tom, belonging to Miss Ann Blake, for apprehending a Negro Criminal.

Ordered, That the said Sums be inserted in the Schedule to the Tax Bill...."

Source:
The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
October 6, 1757-January 24, 1761
Terry W. Lipscomb, Editor
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

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