Fortune

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

upon their oaths do say. . .that said Fortune came to his death by drowning at Camden Ferry on the night of the twenty third of December eighteen hundred and thirty seven

COD Short Description: 
drowned at Camden Ferry
Original Record: 
2743
Owner: 
James C. Doby

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