The State vs. the Dead Body of Carey

Date: 
February 1, 1831

Deceased

Carey
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
John Williams
COD Category: 
Accident
COD: 
Burns
COD Inquest Finding: 

do say upon their oaths We the Jurors . . .believe he got his Death accidentally by fire to the best of our knowledges and the evidence given by Mary Carraway and Nathan Waters before us proves nothing more

Coroner

Coroner: 
John J. Jones
Coroner Title: 
Justice of the Quorum

Location

Inquest Location: 
at the house of John Williams
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

South Carolina Department of Archives & History
Columbia, SC
Inquest Images: 
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