Subject: Petition of John Elliott
Resent-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 13:38:32 -0800 (PST)
Resent-From: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 1998 16:40:34 -0500
From: Steve Coker 
Organization: gamecock@yours.com
To: "SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com" 

The Colonial Records of South Carolina
The Journal of the Commons House of Assembly
Published by the South Carolina Department of Archives and History
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 51-62239
ISBN: 1-880067-28-5

Wednesday the 1st of February 1758.

"... A Petition of John Elliott, Indian Trader, was presented to the house &
read Setting forth as Viz.

That Your Petitioner has Lived Some Years in the Cherokee Nation. That about May
1753 the Indians brought in Two French Prisoners whom they kept for one year
when the Petitioner purchased their ransom, brought them to Town and delivered
them to James Glen Esqr., then Governor of this Province, who Examined them
before the Council and promised to repay the Petitioner the ransom Money &c.
which was afterwards done. That the Petitioner in Consequence of the said Late
Governors Orders Carried the said Prisoners to the House of Alexander McGregor
to be Entertained with Meat, drink, washing & Lodging, who refused to take them
without a Written Order on which the Petitioner became Security for payment of
the Expences to be incurred in Consequence of the said verbal Order to Said
McGregor. That the said McGregor's wife often attended Mr. Glen for Payment of
the Account hereunto Annexed but could not Receive any Sattisfaction, whereupon
your petitioner was arrested and as the Petitioner's intentions were for the
public Good prays the House to take his Case into Consideration & make
provission for the discharge of the said Account. Read also the Account of the
Said Hannah McGregor amounting to £214:10.

Order'd That the Said Petition & Account be referred to the Consideration of the
Committee appointed to Audit the Accounts of the Public Creditors. And that they
do Examine the Matter thereof & report the same with their Opinion thereupon to
the House...."

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