William Pettifoot

First Name: William
Last Name: Pettifoot
Description: 
free black
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Free
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the deceased came to its death by being accidentally overlaid & smothered in the course fo the night by its mother

COD Short Description: 
overlaid and smothered
Original Record: 
2780

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