The State vs. the Dead Body of Prince

Date: 
October 27, 1844

Deceased

Prince
Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Elizabeth Timmerman
COD Category: 
Suicide
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro Prince voluntarily Jumped into a deep hole of water in Sleepy[?] Creek near Mrs Elizabeth Timmermans . . .by which means he drowned himself

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel Holland
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Mrs Elizabeth Timmermans
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

he stripped the said Prince and tied him to a tree with a view[?] to whip him and went off to cut some hickorys to whip him with and as he returned he saw that Price had got loose and was running from him he then pursued Prince when Prince run about three hundred yards to a deep hole of water in Sleepy Creek and Jumped into it and sunk and drowned

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