Mary Ann

First Name: Mary
Middle Name(s): Ann
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their Oaths do say that the said nego Girl, Mary Ann, her lying dead came to her death by drowning in Walnut Creeke on the night of the first of July

COD Short Description: 
drowned crossing a creek
Original Record: 
5169
Owner: 
Young Pitts

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