The State vs. the Dead Body of May

Date: 
March 20, 1832

Deceased

May
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Brain
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths, that according to the evidence adduced to them, they believe that on the 19th instant in a field where the said May was breaking Cotton Halks, he was taken with an appoplectic fit and expired in an instant

Coroner

Coroner: 
James Marshall
Coroner Title: 
Coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of Doctor William Bratton on Wateree Creek
County: 
Fairfield County, SC

Source

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