The State vs. the Dead Body of Patt

Date: 
October 10, 1825

Deceased

Patt
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Mary Mathis
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said negro slave Pat came to her death by voluntarity & feloniously hanging herself by the neck

Coroner

Coroner: 
David Schrock
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the residence of Mrs. Mary Mathis in Camden
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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