The State vs. the Dead Body of John Johnson

Date: 
March 2, 1814

Deceased

John Johnson
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
White
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that the sd. John Johnson came to his death on the night of the 26th February last, by Drowning

Coroner

Coroner: 
Samuel Cunningham
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Peace

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the plantation of John Mitchel
County: 
Laurens County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
Laurens_Cor_D5852_0117.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_0118.jpg
Laurens_Cor_D5852_0119.jpg

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