Drowning

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Amelia A. Alexander came to her death by accidental drowning in the millpond of A.H. Boykin. . .by sinking of a Flat caused by the weight of between fifty-three & fifty-six persons

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

upon their oaths do say that after such examination as was in their power to make they are clearly of opinion that the decased came to his death by falling into the ditch leading from Bolton's[?] Branch while in a state of intoxication and being unable to help himself was drowned

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

upon their oaths do say that the said negro Amos came to his death by jumping into the Wateree River where he was drowned

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

that he came to his death by drowning in attempting to escape from Capt. Hale & Col. J. Chesnut's hands on the 10th inst

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