The State vs. the Dead Body of Isaac Whitworth

Date: 
March 8, 1840

Deceased

Isaac Whitworth
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
stick
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Decd. Came to his death by blow recd. By a stick in the hand of Negro boy named Willis, the property of Jas Watts Esq. on the on the 7th Inst

Coroner

Coroner: 
Elihu Watson
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Isaac Whitworths
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC

Perpetrator

Perpetrator: 
Negro boy named Willis
Perpetrator Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Inquest Images: 
Laurens_Cor_D5852_0409.jpg
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