Negro woman

Description: 
Negro woman
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

We. . .above mentioned to make inquisition on the decsd. Body of this negroe woman. . .who was found dead by the spring and being sworn according to law have made a strict inquiry into all matters. . .that the sd. Decsd. Came to to death by an act of Providence, but what was the immediate cause of her death we cannot tell unless it was by drinking to much water or by a Act of some kind.

COD Short Description: 
found by a spring
Original Record: 
2346
Owner: 

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