Sharp Instrument

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Enoch Stevens came to his dith by the wound received from James Huggins and Samuel Taylor one wound on the head the skull bone broke, one wound on the leg and the bone ruptured then and there feloniously did kill the said Stevens

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

upon their Oaths do say that Abram Rabon Jun'r of the State and District aforesaid did feloneously with a Kinfe stab and Kill the said Willis Rabon and further saith that Abraham Rabon Sen.r and Duke Rabon were Accessories to the same

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths aforesaid do say that the aforesaid Joseph J. Rollins feloniously did Kill against the peace and dignity of the same state aforesaid

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

upon their oaths do say that we believe he came to his death by wounds inflicted in the throat, and in the Stomach by a Knife in the hands of Absalom Causey

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
ax
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that at a negro House on the primises of the residence of Edward T. Ricks. Was struck one mortal blow with the edge of an ax, inflicting a wound six inches long and throuhg to his hollow on his left brest by the hands of one Tilson a slave belong to James F. Clark of North Carolina

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Willie Featherston came to his death, on Wednesday after noon, from a Knife wound, inflicted by himself, in the lower part of the Sternum, as we believe by accident

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD Method/Implement: 
knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that Jacob came to his death by wounds inflicted by a knife in the hands of John Murphy, overseer.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
razor
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that Andrew Thompson here lying dead came to his death then and there, voluntarily and feloneausly, himself did kill, by cutting his throat with a rasor

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

say that the Sd deceased being [?] and took from his pocket a knife, with which he with his own hand did cut his own throat which was the cause of his death.

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

do say upon their oaths that one James Sessions[?] feloniously voulantary and of his own malice aforethought made an assault uppon the said L.R. Lavender with a [?] dirk knife made of Iron and Steel of the value of $1.25 [?] Mortal Wound . . . which Mortal Wound by the Stab of Said Knife the said L.R. Lavender came to his death.

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