Unknown

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that while from the evidence before the jury there was serious grounds for suspicion that the said Elias Smith had come to his death by some in-proper means, the evidence of the dissecting physician relieves the jury of the disagreeable necessity of prosecuting the investigation further, and so the jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Elias Smith came to his death by apopsy of the chest and diseased liver

Description: 
freedman
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that said decd being diseased came to his death by the visitation of God

Description: 
freedwoman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

that the said Clarissa Campbell a freedwoman came to her death natural by the act of God

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the deceased came to his death, not from any violence but by the visitation of God to the best of our knowledge and belief.

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that no marks of violence could be seen on her body that she the said Sphia came to her death by the hand of God.

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

do say that he came to it by manner and means to them unknown, but believe it was by the visitation of God

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said Elizabeth McHolister in manner and form aforesaid came to her death by the dispensation of providence.

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

do say that we believe he came to his death by the visitation of God.

Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that the said James Drake came to his death by the hand of God

Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

believe came to her death by the hand of Providence.

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