James Brown
First Name: James
Last Name: Brown
James Brown Inquests
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Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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Harry | slave | August 13, 1807 | at McRae & Cantey's Merchant (grist) mill | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths that the said negro slave came to his death by misfortune |
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slave | slave | June 5, 1805 | in woods near Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Suicide | check string |
do say upon their oaths that in a certain wood near Camden with a certain check string which he then & there voluntarily hanged and suffocated [himself] |
Tom | slave | May 5, 1805 | at plantation of John Chesnut, Esquire | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths. . . that the said negro in escaping from him [the overseer] attempted to swim the river, and was drowned |
Source ID:
517