Jack

First Name: Jack
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
stomped
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say, that when and where they Know not, nor by what instrument the deceast was Kild, But that the said Jack was feloniously by Beeting, that the said Jack was Killed and murdered by some person or persons by some means to the Jurors unknown

COD Short Description: 
stomped by owner's son
Original Record: 
4894
Owner: 
John F. Sarvis sen.r

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