Firearm

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
musket
COD Inquest Finding: 

uppon their oaths doo say that . . .the deceast Hancock Porter took his musket went to his Blacksmith shop and took the barrel out of the stock made a fire in his forge put the brick in the fire held the muzel to his throat and the gun went off then and therefore voluntarily and feloniously him self did kill

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that one Saml P Bailey of Said District not having the fear of God Before his Eyes But moved by the instigation of the Devil did . . .in the House or Store of James R. Nathens . . .with a Pistol wound & Kill the said Henry Long

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
pistol
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased was killed by a bullet discharged from a pistol in the house of Dr. John P. Thomas . . .in the Jail of Union District

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

say on there Oaths that we Belive the Said John Jackson for [?] and of the [?] of [?] and the instagation of the Divel homicideed him Self Shooting him Self with a Rifle Gun the Ball Entered into his head a Small Distance above his Right Ey Reanging[?] into his Brain

Description: 
free girl of color
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

We the Jurors can [?] deceasd came to her death by gun shot wound inflicted by some person unknown

Description: 
lunatic
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that from every circumstance shown to them that it must have originated from a former attact of lunacy, which had for a time appearently Subsided, they do believe that She did Shoot and kill herself through a partial derangement from the former disease

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . .the above named slave was Shot with a Shot gun in the plantation of Wm. K. Clowney by Charles Ming the overseer of the above name plantation

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that in the house of the abovesaid John H Gallman the said G W Gallman did Shoot himself in the left temple with a rifle gun

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rifle
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the Said James Comer for Wont[?] of the Grace of God and the instation[?] of the Devil was a [?] of himSelf By Shooting of him Self with a Rifle gun in the forehead

Description: 
negro woman slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that. . .the decd came to her death by the forms[?] of a shot gun loaded with powder and shot. The [?] passing through the right hand and lodging in the right breast a little above the nipple. . . we believe the deceased was handling and [?] the said shot gun

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