The State vs. the Dead Body of Mary

Date: 
May 17, 1847

Deceased

Mary
Description: 
Slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
A. Perrin
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

Upon their oaths do say, that. . .the said Mary came to her death by being choked, by Joe, a negro man belong to Omey Patterson, who confined to us that he was the murder, and purpetrated said deed on Sunday 16th inst. Showing us where he had Killed her near the above named Plantation

Coroner

Coroner: 
Peter Quattlebaum
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Plantation of A. Perrin
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Joe
Perpetrator Description: 
slave
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
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