Other

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

upon their oaths do say that the house in which Mrs. Annie West lived was set on fire by some person or persons unknown & that she perished in the flames

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Eliza Ogleby
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said child came to its death by disease

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Jane Arnold
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Jane Arnold
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon our oaths do say . . .that the child's death came by bleeding at the navel or umbilicus but we think if the child had received proper attention it would have survived

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

upon their oaths do say that they think he came to his death by wounds inflicted on his person; from the evidence we believe that Gilbert Fleming did feloniously kill the said George Pye against the peace and dignity of the state

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
child
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from the best information that they could gather that they think the child. . .Dorcas Henderson came to its death on account of having had an excessive portion of spiritous liquor given to it by a free boy of color named Tobe

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

do say upon their oaths [deceased] came to his death by misfortune or accident

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that she came to her death by infirmity and old age

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

[do] say that they think according to the evidence given by Sally and Ly[?] Chandler that the s'd David Weatherspoon was accessory to his own Death

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

say upon their oaths that the said William Cockerham [did] kill & murder himself against the peace of this state

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