Jerry

First Name: Jerry
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Negro slave Jerry ... a prisoner ... under sentense [sic] of death ... within the walls of the said jail, not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and instigated by the Devil, with a certain handkerchief or handkerchiefs. . .kill'd, strangled and murdered himself against the peace of this state

COD Short Description: 
hanged self with handkerchiefs in jail
Original Record: 
2922
Owner: 
Andrew Coan

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