Thompson

First Name: Thompson
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Sharp Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
axe
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said Thompson was felloniously and maliciously homicideed by some person with an axe by a blow on the head, and the evidence before us justifies us in finding that the boy Henry was at least accessory to the decd

COD Short Description: 
hit with axe
Original Record: 
3378
Owner: 
Margaret Reynolds

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