Jake

First Name: Jake
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
brick
COD Inquest Finding: 

that the slave Jake came to his death from a blow or blows inflicted on his head by a brick in the hands of Ceily the nurse, a slave property of Charles Haile

COD Short Description: 
hit in head with brick
Original Record: 
2801
Owner: 
A. Haile

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