The State vs. the Dead Body of Kent

Date: 
January 12, 1845

Deceased

Kent
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
David Maberry
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said slave Kent came to his death by the visitation of God

Coroner

Coroner: 
John Chapman
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of David Maberry
County: 
Spartanburg County, SC

Source

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