George

First Name: George
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Age Descriptor: 
child
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro child George, from the evidence adduced before the Jury came to his death by the hands of one Jackson Bradley aided and abetted by one William Adkins on the Saturday night before the said Jackson Bradley was committed to Jail

COD Short Description: 
enslaved child killed by two men
Original Record: 
2810

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