Ellick

First Name: Ellick
Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Method/Implement: 
rope
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say, that the said Ellick, . . .voluntarily, and feloniously, himself did Kill. By hanging himself by the neck, suspended by a rope form the joist

COD Short Description: 
hanged self
Original Record: 
3462
Owner: 

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