Phillis

First Name: Phillis
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Cause of Death
COD Category: 
Natural Causes
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that, according to all the testimony adduced to them, they are inclined to believe, that on the 17th instant, the said Phillis being often last spring, complaining of Hysterical, vapours she was taken with a Hysteric Attack which caused her death

COD Short Description: 
taken with a hysteric attack
Original Record: 
4572

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