The State vs. the Dead Body of slave

Date: 
January 8, 1838

Deceased

slave
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
James C. Doby
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the body here found is a negro woman the property of J.C. Doby Esq. and came to her death by drowning on the 23 Decb. last in the crossing the ferry over the Wateree River at Camden

Coroner

Coroner: 
William R. Young
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Wateree River in Camden
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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