Drowning

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

upon their oaths do say that. . .the sd. Benj. Freeman went into Tyger River a swimming or by some cause became drowned

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

do say upon their oaths he came to his death by accidentally drowning in a state of intoxication

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

do say upon their oaths after examination [that] he came to his death by accidental drowning

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

it appears to us and we verily believe that the sd. Jesse. . .either wilfully, intentionally or accidentally go[t] into the River. . .by which means he was drowned

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

do say upon there [sic] oaths. . .that his death was caused by [swimming] over the dam

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

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

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

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

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 

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