Sharp Instrument

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

upon oath do say . . .the said deceased did kill and distroy her own life by means of cutting her own throat with the Raisor of Henry Ivey which was found lying with her dead body

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

upon their oaths do say . . .that the deceased came to his death by a wound inflicted in the forepart of the head by seaborn[?] woolbright with a knife

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

upon their oaths do say that said ... came to his death from a cut or stab in the left breast with a knife in the hands of Patrick Henry

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

upon their oaths do say that in their opinions the said deceased came to his death at the place where found, viz. in front of corn crib on the premises of John Davis Esqr., caused by a blow on the neck severing the jugular vein and windpipe with a pole axe in the hands of some unknown person

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

upon there [sic] oaths do say that they are satisfied he came to her death. . . by a stab from a knife in the left thigh in the hand of Hubbard Cash

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

upon their oaths do say [deceased] was wilfully, maliciously, & feloniously murdered at his own residence. . .by Phillis and John, slaves of the deceased, by beating him with an Axe and a stick. . .and that Charley, a slave of dec's'd, was accessory to the murder being present and making no effort to prevent the murder

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

upon their oaths do say that to the satisfaction of the jury he came to his death by violence. . .by some person or persons to the jurors unknown, by, the jurors suppose, an axe

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD Method/Implement: 
case knife
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say it appeareth that she died fo self-murder ... with a case knife there foundlying near her

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

upon there [sic] oaths do say that the said T.Linder came to his death by a stab from a common pocket knife inflicted on his left breast about two inches from his left nipple by the hand of John Davis

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

upon their oaths do say that the sd. J.B. Brawly came to his death by a stab wound from a common packet kinfe inflicted on his left side opposite his navel and about 4 inches from the same by the hand of John Davis

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