Carey

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

do say upon their oaths We the Jurors . . .believe he got his Death accidentally by fire to the best of our knowledges and the evidence given by Mary Carraway and Nathan Waters before us proves nothing more

COD Short Description: 
burnt to death
Original Record: 
2717
Owner: 
John Williams

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