Other

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the little girl Ann, a slave the property of B. Haile, came to her death by being burnt intentionally by the nurse, Tamer, a slave of B. Haile.

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
child
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro child George, from the evidence adduced before the Jury came to his death by the hands of one Jackson Bradley aided and abetted by one William Adkins on the Saturday night before the said Jackson Bradley was committed to Jail

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
about sixty
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that that the Negro woman came to her death by a fit of apoplexy on the morning of the fourth day of November 1855 in her own house.

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

upon their oaths do say that the said negro Jim came to his death. . .from three wounds inflicted on and across the face by some weapon or instrument to the jury unknown in the hands of Dick a slave of William Sanders

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

upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid John D. Player came to his death from [?] of the Glottis

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to her death by foul means at the hands of parties unknown to the jurors

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

do say upon their oaths [that] a certain Denis Crain with volence and force of arms ... did attack, wound & kill ... Benj'n Farmer

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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