Sam Sinclair

First Name: Sam
Last Name: Sinclair
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man slave the property of John Chesnut son of James Chesnut Esquire was violantly [sic] Murdered

COD Short Description: 
murdered by unspecified means
Original Record: 
2678
Owner: 
John Chesnut

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