The State vs. the Dead Body of Mike

Date: 
September 13, 1844

Deceased

Mike
Description: 
negro man
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Robert Cunningham
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon there oaths do say that the said deceased came to his death at the said Mill the tenth instant when the said Mill broke and washed away, and at the falling in of the mill the deceased received a wound over his right eye which stuned him and caused him to drown

Coroner

Coroner: 
Daniel Holland
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Dr John D. Nicholsons Mill
County: 
Edgefield County, SC

Source

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

the other four negroes washed down the Creek and got out with a great deal of difficulty

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