It seems that James Broadstreet killed Benjamin Vickers in Georgia in October 1787. The petitioners say the Broadstreet was a good man and Vickers was the worst of characters.
Augustus King, of Wayne County, while firing a cannon at a celebration at Toisnot Depot, was blinded by an accident, and the petition asks that his son, Blount King, at Fort Caswell be released to help support his father.