Poison

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
strychnine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Mary Blocker came to her death by taking a dose of Strychnine

Description: 
col
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
stems of yellow jasmine
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say That they find that the said George Low came to his death through drinking a tea made of the stems of the yellow Jessamine having mistaken the same for the cross Vine of which he intended to make tea

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

uppon the oaths do say we the jurors do say that Mr. Wm. Belcher ... came to his death by taking poison of some kind unknown to the jurors

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

upon their oaths do say that the said William Johnson came to his death ... from a sudden attack of illness occasioned by his having eaten oysters which were probably tainted

Notes: 
infant
Race: 
White
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Martha Gibson
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths. . . that after carefully examining the dead body of the s'd male child of the s'd Martha Gibson ... are all agreed that the s'd child died by the visitation of God but by the blood being [?]led in large spots to be seen through the skin all on his left side from his face to his foot they thought it was probable s'd child might have eat some poisonous herbs or berries of the woods as s'd Husk had settled in the woods

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
saltpeter
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that it was by taking a dose of saltpetre though mistake

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