The State vs. the Dead Body of Bob

Date:

May 31, 1831

Bob

Sex:

Male

Race:

Black

Slave Status:

Enslaved

COD Category:

Accident

COD:

COD Inquest Finding:

do say upon their oaths that he came to his death by being accidentally drowned in the Catawba River at Rocky Mount Ferry

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

Justice of the Quorum

Inquest Location:

at Rocky Mount

County:

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

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