The State vs. the Dead Body of Peter

Date: 
December 30, 1859

Deceased

Peter
Description: 
Negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
W. G. Harris
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Injuries
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that Peter. . .came to his death by the accidental falling of the top of a tree he appears himself to have cut down

Coroner

Coroner: 
Benjamin Baird
Coroner Title: 
magistrate acting as coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the Plantation of Mr Wm Bunch
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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