Transportation

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

upon their oaths do say that the said Norman Cameron came to his death by misfortune or accidentally falling off his horse

Description: 
free black
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
wagon
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say the deceased came t his death by the wagon running over him

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

upon their oaths do say that the deceased Thos. Robinson came to his death by a fall from his horse

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

upon their oaths do say that the negro slave supposed to be Dick came to his death by drowning on Wednesday the 17th Instant at Camden boat yard

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

do say that from every information they can obtain the said black or coloured man to have been the slave of a Mr. Chappell of Charleston who was a boat hand in the employ of Mr. Thomas J. Kerr by the name of John and that he came to his death by drowning from cause to them unknown.

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

do say upon their oaths that he was going from mill and his cart wheel struck on a shim and overset and caught him under the cart. . . on his right shoulder and across his neck and the fore gate across his right arm about the elbow

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Accident
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Somerset came to his death by accident arising from a fall from a horse

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

do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man came to his death by (as we suppose) from the evidence profused the falling out of a Batteaux accidently and drowning

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

do say upon their oaths that the aforesaid Nicholas Lowrey came to his death by being run against a tree by the Horse he rode

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

do say upon their oaths that they found William Arledge . . . lying . . . in the middle of the road and upon examination believe his neck to be broken and from other marks and evidence suppose it arose from his having fallen from his horse

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