Samuel Jefferies

First Name: Samuel
Last Name: Jefferies

Samuel Jefferies Inquests

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Name Deceased Description Date Inquest Location County Death Type Death Method Inquest Finding
Charlotte negro woman slave June 25, 1825 at the house of Samuel I. Hary[?] Union County, SC Suicide shotgun

do say upon their oaths that. . .the decd came to her death by the forms[?] of a shot gun loaded with powder and shot. The [?] passing through the right hand and lodging in the right breast a little above the nipple. . . we believe the deceased was handling and [?] the said shot gun

Source ID: 
638

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