The State vs. the Dead Body of Nathaniel Shilton

Date: 
November 26, 1814

Deceased

Nathaniel Shilton
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Inquest Finding: 

Do Say on their oaths that the Said Nathaniel Shilton through the want of the Grace of God and the intigation of the Divel Did with a [?] tyd to the Jaw[?] of a barn and one Round his Neck Did filoniously hang him Self

Coroner

Coroner: 
William Kennedy
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Dweling house of William Sims[?]
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

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