John Chesnut

Tom
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Chesnut
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths. . . that the said negro in escaping from him [the overseer] attempted to swim the river, and was drowned

Sam Sinclair
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Chesnut
COD Category: 
Homicide
COD: 
Other
COD Inquest Finding: 

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

Ned
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Chesnut
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say that the said negro slave Ned the property of the estate of John Chesnut came to his death by drowning about six weeks ago

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