Drowning

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

upon their oaths do say that he came to his death by accidental drowning

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

upon their oaths do say that the said negro slave Ned the property of the estate of John Chesnut came to his death by drowning about six weeks ago

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Henry McKnight came to his death by the visitation of God having fallen into the river supposed to have been in a fit and alone

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

we the jurors are of opinoin that the said negro Fry Day came to his Death by Drowning.

Description: 
negro
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said boddy is a negro man supposed to have been drowned but having no evidence before us cannot say when or where

Description: 
negro
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say we find the body to be that of a negro woman unknown supposed to have been drowned but having no evidence before us cannot say when or where

Description: 
negro
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say we find upon examination the body is that of a negro man and suppose that he came to his death by drowning, and having no evidence before us cannot say when or where

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

upon their oaths do say. . .that said Fortune came to his death by drowning at Camden Ferry on the night of the twenty third of December eighteen hundred and thirty seven

Description: 
negro
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say we find the Boddy is a negro man and came to his death by drownign but have no evidence before us to warrant us in saying when or where

Description: 
negro
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say to the best of their knowledge the Boddy now before them is that of a negro man who came to his death by drowning but having no evidence before them cannot say when or where

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