The State vs. the Dead Body of Tom

Date: 
May 5, 1805

Deceased

Tom
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Chesnut
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths. . . that the said negro in escaping from him [the overseer] attempted to swim the river, and was drowned

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Brown
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at plantation of John Chesnut, Esquire
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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