Catherine Bates

Chaney
Description: 
female slave
Sex: 
Female
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Catherine Bates
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Firearm
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. . .a certain negro boy the property of the Sd Mrs Bates was handling a shot gun being loaded without his knowledge which went off by accident and blew the contents into the forehead of the said Chaney

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