Unknown Negro Woman near Swansey's Ferry

Description: 
Unknown Negro Woman near Swansey's Ferry
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon there oaths that the said negro woman not having god before her Eyes, but being seduced & moved by the instigation of the devil at the place aforesd then and there being alone, in a common river called Saluda voluntarily & feloniously drowned herself...

COD Short Description: 
drowned herself in a river
Original Record: 
2319

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