The State vs. the Dead Body of infant negro child

Date: 
October 18, 1845

Deceased

infant negro child
Description: 
infant negro child
Race: 
Black
Child: 
infant
Parent(s): 
Rose
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Gregory
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Suffocation
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that . . .they do belive that the child was Smothered to death accidently by its mother in her Sleap

Coroner

Coroner: 
Isaac Gregory
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of John Gregory
County: 
Union County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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