The State vs. the Dead Body of Fortune

Date: 
April 1, 1838

Deceased

Fortune
Description: 
slave
Sex: 
Male
Race: 
Black
Slave Status: 
Enslaved
Owner: 
James C. Doby
COD Category: 
Unknown
COD: 
Drowning
COD Inquest Finding: 

upon their oaths do say. . .that said Fortune came to his death by drowning at Camden Ferry on the night of the twenty third of December eighteen hundred and thirty seven

Coroner

Coroner: 
William R. Young
Coroner Title: 
coroner

Location

Inquest Location: 
at Col. James Chesnut's plantation
County: 
Kershaw County, SC

Source

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