Moses

First Name: Moses
Description: 
Slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Firearm
COD Method/Implement: 
shotgun
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that Moses died?we are of the opinion that Sd Moses came to his death by a wound that we have seen below the back bone of the rightshoulder inclining to the right nipple rather downward made by a leaden ball or buck shot shot out of a double barrell gun...by Clayton Webb the owner of Moses

COD Short Description: 
shot in chest
Original Record: 
2371
Owner: 
Clayton Webb

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