Jane Bobo

Adam
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
Jane Bobo
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Blunt Instrument
COD Method/Implement: 
large stick
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths that on Saturday night 27 of this instant at the [?] house of Maj. J. Crook ... that Lewis slave of Capt. W. H. Dickee did strike said Adam with a large stick on the left side of the forehead

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