Richard Roberts

First Name: Richard
Last Name: Roberts
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Hanging
COD Method/Implement: 
bullis vine
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that they believe the said Richard Roberts came to his death by being hung up to the girder in union meeting house by some persons with a Bullis vine by the neck and feet[?] and there kept until he died.

COD Short Description: 
hanged with Bullis vine
Original Record: 
4529

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