Other

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

do say upon their oaths that they believe the said Elizabeth Bowing came to her death by abuse inflicted on her by the hand of Priscilla Robertson

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

are of the opinion that the fellow Edward has come to his death by causes unknown to them

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man slave the property of John Chesnut son of James Chesnut Esquire was violantly [sic] Murdered

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

do say upon their oaths that the said negro slave came to his death by misfortune

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

do say upon their oaths after due examination of witnesses and of the body of Sarah Langley deceas'd we find now certain proof that she was murdered

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

upon their oaths do say that the said App Chapman came to his death by misfortune.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
78
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say . . . he died from a visitation of the Almighty God

Description: 
boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
15 yrs
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .came to his death by falling in a branch in an epileptic fit & causing strangulation

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Age Descriptor: 
eighty-six
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that. . . came to his death from strangulation of the hernia[?] of long duration

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

upon their oaths do say that . . .came to his death from congestion of the Lungs

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