The State vs. the Dead Body of Somerset

Date: 
March 24, 1824

Deceased

Somerset
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Dr. E. H. Anderson
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Transportation
COD Method/Implement: 
horse
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the said Somerset came to his death by accident arising from a fall from a horse

Coroner

Coroner: 
William B. Hast

Location

County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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