George

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

do say upon their oaths, and so the Jurors aforesaid upon their oaths aforesaid, say that the aforesaid infant Child the aforesaid Susannah Finny, then and there feloniously Did kill and murder, against the peace of this State.

COD Short Description: 
hung himself
Original Record: 
5074
Owner: 
John Williams

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