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THB1792 Coroner's Inquistion of the Death of a Female Slave
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LiveNov 17, 2017 - Nov 18, 2017
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- Lot Description
1p, 9.5 x 15.5 in. Frederick County (likely MD), 3 June 1792.
Transcription:
Inquisition in (?) and labor at the dwelling plantation of Basil Beale in Frederick County on the third day of June in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and ninety two by me, William Beatty one of the coroners in and for said county duly commissioned and qualified upon view of the body of a Negroe woman named Ruth age near or about forty years in possession of him the said Basil Beal then and there lying dead upon the oath of [Names of all members of the inquest jury, also listed at the bottom of the document] good and lawful Men of the county aforesaid who being duly summoned sworn and charged to inquire when, where, and in what manner the said Negro woman Ruth came to her death do say that the said Negro Ruth being for a considerable time past accustomed to trouble with fits did in the night proceeding the day of date hereof while in the act of washing of clothes at a branch near the dwelling house of the said Basil Beale on the plantation aforesaid by fits aforesaid tumble into the said branch wherefor want of timely assistance she drowned. And so the jurors aforesaid upon their oath aforesaid do say that the said Ruth the Negro woman forsaid by drowning in the manner aforesaid came to her death and not otherwise. In testimony whereof I the said Coroner as well as the Jurors to this Inquisition have hereunto interchangeably set our hands and affixed our seals to the place of Dec'd aforesaith the day and year first aforesaid.
Wm Beatty Coronor; Conrad Doll ; Henry Leatherman; Nigel Waters; Christian Becker; Henry Kemp; Matthias Bertgis; James Mahoney; John Burkhartt; Jacob Klein; Abner Ritchie; Adam Frushour; Michael Ransberg
It is not clear from the document what triggered the inquest, but Mr. Beale may himself have wanted to be sure that someone else had not murdered Ruth, since that would have been major destruction of his property (as slaves were viewed at the time).
Old folds with minor separations along them. Some toning along vertical folds. Scattered foxing.Condition
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