Kitty

First Name: Kitty
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. That they have thoroughly Examined the body of the decd Kitty and find no marks of violence on the body sufficient to cause death, and so the Jurors aforesaid, upon their oaths aforesaid do Say that the deceased came to her death by some cause unknown to them...

COD Short Description: 
whipped and strangled
Original Record: 
5185
Owner: 
A. Hollingsworth

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