Tom

First Name: Tom
Description: 
slave, boy
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
boat
COD Inquest Finding: 

have come to the decision that the boy with others was washed from a small boat in the early part of the night of the fouth in attempting to cross the river . . .got gast[?] in a [?] trap and perished from cold

COD Short Description: 
washed out of boat
Original Record: 
3381
Owner: 
Gov. William H. Gist

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