unnamed infant

Description: 
unnamed infant
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Emma Gaillard
Race: 
Black
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do Say,--That they find the Said Infant to have dead some two or three weeks--that from the evidence before them they belie vethe Said Infant to be the offstriping of Emma Gallard a colored woman now in the Jail . . . and that they believe that the said Infant came to its death by Violence at the hands of the Said Emma Gaillard

COD Short Description: 
infanticide or stillbirth
Original Record: 
2287

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