Tom

First Name: Tom
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths. . . that the said negro in escaping from him [the overseer] attempted to swim the river, and was drowned

COD Short Description: 
drowned trying to cross river
Original Record: 
2656
Owner: 
John Chesnut

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