Joe

First Name: Joe
Sex: 
Male
Child: 
child
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

are of the opinion that he [Joe] came to his death by a wound in his abdomen near his navel about one inch in Length committed on the body of Joe by the Hand of one Robert Freeman on the 22nd of June 1837.

COD Short Description: 
stabbed in stomach
Original Record: 
4602

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