The State vs. the Dead Body of Infant Child

Date: 
July 27, 1809

Deceased

Infant Child
Description: 
Infant Child
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
White
Parent(s): 
Jean Bryson
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Infanticide
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths aforesaid say that the aforesaid female Child came to its death by a Stroke on the head by the Reputed Mother Jean Bryson. . .

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Burnside
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John Brysons
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Jean Bryson
Inquest Images: 
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