Drowning

Description: 
negroe girl, a slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say the said Lovina a negro Girl a slave. . .then and there voluntarily and feloniously here self did drown

Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that. . .Daniel came to his death by drownding whether axidental or intentional unknown

Description: 
male slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say. . .that he came to his death by going in to the Saluda River and got in Deep water an drowned

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Joseph Shaw bathing in the Mill pond of Col H. H. Pickens. . .came to his death by accidental drowing

Description: 
Slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

who came to his death by drowning in Butlers Mill Pond

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Curry came to his death by accidental drowning

Description: 
child of Thomas M Chandler
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the deceased came to his death on the 8th ist by accidental drowning

Description: 
Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Nancy, Slave, came to her death by drowning herself in Little Saluda River

Description: 
negro man Slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their Oaths do say, he came to his death by his own voluntary act in attempting to cross the mill pond when became drowned

Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, that the negro here lying dead, was Killed or drowned by some means to the Jurors unknown

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