The State vs. the Dead Body of Bill

Date: 
November 19, 1851

Deceased

Bill
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Col. Samuel Beaty
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that by being flung and dragged by the horse with his feet wound in the chain some hundred and fifty yards. . . came to his death by misfortune or accident

Coroner

Coroner: 
G. L. Gregory
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Colonel Samuel Beaty's
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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