The State vs. the Dead Body of Jerry | CSI: Dixie

The State vs. the Dead Body of Jerry

Date:

May 16, 1808

Deceased

Jerry

Sex:

Male

Race:

Black

Slave Status:

Enslaved

Owner:

COD Category:

Accident

COD:

COD Inquest Finding:

do say upon their oaths, the said Negrow man Jerry came to his Death by being Intoxicated in Liquor and Indeavoring to cross the Enoree River... between Laurens & Spartanburgh Districts that then & there the sd. Negrow Jerry got strangled sufficated & Drowned & from all appearance contrary to the wife sd. Negrow by mischance or accident.

Coroner

Coroner:

Coroner Title:

Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location:

at the Mill House of Henry Brockman

County:

Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History

Columbia, SC

Inquest Images:

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