The State vs. the Dead Body of Bartly

Date: 
January 16, 1846

Deceased

Bartly
Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Charles J. Glover
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Bartly came to his death by cause unknown

Coroner

Coroner: 
A. B. Addison
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
in the woods near the plantation of Dr Wm M Bent
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

C J Glover Sworn says he has no doubt [?] the skeleton above alluded to of a negro man name Bartly the property of deponent who went off some time last July

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