Joseph Mickle
Joseph Mickle Inquests
| Name | Deceased Description | Date | Inquest Location | County | Death Type | Death Method | Inquest Finding |
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| Ambrose | slave | September 25, 1828 | at the house of [?] Duke | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man slave Ambrose came to his death early in the morning of the twenty-forth of September instant by buck shot discharged from a gun presented at him by Kirkland Harmon ... [the shot] entering his back loins & hips |
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| Elizabeth Bowing | May 30, 1831 | at the residence of Mrs. Ann Bowing | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say upon their oaths that they believe the said Elizabeth Bowing came to her death by abuse inflicted on her by the hand of Priscilla Robertson |
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| Goodall | September 15, 1823 | at the boatyard near Camden on the Wateree | Kershaw County, SC | Suicide |
do say upon their oaths that the said Goodall not having the fear of God before his eyes, but being moved and seduced by the instigation of the Devil at the boat yard near Camden . . . then and there himself voluntarily and feloniously downed [himself] |
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| Jane Archer | January 13, 1813 | in house of Alexander Archer on Brown[?] Creek | Kershaw County, SC | Natural Causes |
do say upon their oaths that said Jane Archer came to her death on the night Sautrday the tenth of January Instant in a natural way in the house of Alexander Archer |
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| John Bryce | March 7, 1815 | in the town of Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Natural Causes |
do say upon their oaths that the said John Bryce came to his death in the Town of Camden aforesaid, on the night of the sixth Instant of a visitation of God. |
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| John Cotton | March 15, 1826 | at the river bank in Mr. Jno. Nelson's field | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths that on the second day January last that the said John Cotton came to his death by attempting to go to the shore from a boat that was lodged in the shoal near Jones Mills within said district and was drowned accidentally and not otherwise |
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| Judith Berry | December 17, 1811 | near Swift Creek ... [at] home of James Berry | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths that the said Berry to came to her death by a violent burn which she received from her clothes taking fire at the fireplace in the house of James Berry . . . of which she instantly died. |
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| Nicholas Lowery | December 28, 1820 | on the Ridge Road near John Lowrey's | Kershaw County, SC | Accident | horse |
do say upon their oaths that the aforesaid Nicholas Lowrey came to his death by being run against a tree by the Horse he rode |
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| Robert Anderson | January 31, 1825 | at the camp near the Wateree Canal | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oaths that the said Robert Anderson came to his death by a gun going accidentally off as William Forten was laying it up, the cock of said gun striking against the place where it was to be laid, which caused it to go off and the load was lodged in the neck of said Robert Anderson |
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| Sam Sinclair | slave | March 24, 1820 | at John Chesnut plantation near Chesnut's Ferry on Wateree River | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man slave the property of John Chesnut son of James Chesnut Esquire was violantly [sic] Murdered |
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| Sarah Arledge | April 22, 1812 | at Meeting House Branch | Kershaw County, SC | Accident |
do say upon their oath that the said infant child as aforesaid came to its death by being lost in the woods & perished to death by hunger and cold on the night of the twelfth of this Instant on Meeting House Branch |
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| slave | slave | March 12, 1824 | on the river bank at the plantation of Edward Brevard | Kershaw County, SC | Accident | boat |
do say upon their oaths that the said Negro man came to his death by (as we suppose) from the evidence profused the falling out of a Batteaux accidently and drowning |
| Sylvia | slave | May 21, 1822 | at John Brown plantation | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide | switch |
do say upon their oaths that the said Negro woman Sylvia came to her death by two strokes which she received with a large switch, one across her arm and the other over her breast and shoulder from the hand of Gabiel Coats on the 14th Instant which seems to have been done without intention to kill or maim ... and what most men would have done in such a case and not otherwise |
| Timothy Spann | April 24, 1812 | two miles below Camden | Kershaw County, SC | Homicide |
do say upon their oaths that they believe that said Timothy Spann came to his death in consequence of a wound received by a shot in a duel with a certain ---- Lowell |
