Infanticide

Description: 
infant Child
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the bones shown to them at the Stump was the bones of an infant [?] Child and it appeared that they had been put there for the purpose of Consealing them [??] they war put thare in the flesh or cleand of flesh is to us unknown

Description: 
infant child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Plene[?]
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that a certain person unknown did kill and but[?] believe that A was a black woman Slave named [?] the property of John Nelson of said district did kill and homicide the said infant A and the said Jurors upon oaths afforesaid further say that the said person unknown or Palmer at above Said after she had commited the said felony and homicide did flee away

Description: 
white infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said unknown child came to his death by being killed and murdered by some person or persons to the jurors unknown

Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said male infant child name unknown was killed and murdered by some person, or persons, or by some means, either by crushing of th head with some instrument unknown by drowning or both

Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that ... the said child . . .came to its death from injuries received at the hands of Mary McKeys, Lizzie Mills, Paul Mills, and Alexander Mills, all of whom we deem cognizant of and accessory to the death

Notes: 
infant
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
unknown
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said infant was murdered by being thrown into an unused well by some person or persons to the jurors unknown

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
E. Lancaster
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oath do say that the said child came to its death by some means to the jurors unknown against the peace and dignity of the same state aforesaid

Description: 
negro
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Catherine Berry
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say ... that Catherine, a black woman living at Col. R.C. Poole's at Pacolet Spring, called by some Berry, did have and was delivered of said child and that she throwed [sic] it in the river ... feloniously drownding said child against the peace and dignity of the same state aforesaid

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Martha Robinson
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that after a most careful investigation of the whole matter ... that the said child, we are satisfied, came to its death by having the posterior part of its head crushed, wilfully and violently, by the hands of Martha Robinson, the mother of said child, or Elizabeth Robinson, the grandmother of said child, later in the evening of Tuesday the 4th day of April

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