The State vs. the Dead Body of Jane

Date: 
March 10, 1863

Deceased

Jane
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Age Descriptor: 
30 or 60
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Rev. Albert A. Morse
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say that she came to her death on sabath the eighth day of March?at the residence of her master A. A. Morse, of deceased hastened or made premature by the maltreatment of her Master A. A. Morse and his mistress Mrs. C. T. [?] Morse, and more particularly on the part of the latter, and....that the said slave Jain the said A. A. Morse & C. T. Morse, by misfortune, and contrary to their will

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Wilson
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Anderson Court House
County: 
Anderson County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
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