slave

Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the body here found is a negro woman the property of J.C. Doby Esq. and came to her death by drowning on the 23 Decb. last in the crossing the ferry over the Wateree River at Camden

COD Short Description: 
apparent drowning, whether suicide or accident
Original Record: 
2735
Owner: 
James C. Doby

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