George Fisher

First Name: George
Last Name: Fisher
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
COD: 
COD Inquest Finding: 

[upon their oaths] do say that the said George Fisher going into a certain River] called Broad River to fish traps for fish of his own will at a late hour of the night it happened that accidentally, casually, and misfortunate [he] was in the water of the said river then suffocated and drowned...and there instantly died

COD Short Description: 
fell in river while fishing and drowned
Original Record: 
4530

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