Dorcas Henderson

First Name: Dorcas
Last Name: Henderson
Sex: 
Female
Age Descriptor: 
child
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that from the best information that they could gather that they think the child. . .Dorcas Henderson came to its death on account of having had an excessive portion of spiritous liquor given to it by a free boy of color named Tobe

COD Short Description: 
given overdose of liquor
Original Record: 
2994

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