previous next

Inquest.

--An inquest was held by the county Coroner, yesterday, assisted by Constable Thomas, over the body of a young negro man supposed to have been named Henry Randolph, a slave owned by Mrs. Jane A. Griffin, who has been missing since Sunday, and it is believed was drowned at Rocketts on Sunday, as the body above alluded to was recovered from the water.

The Daily Dispatch: April 27, 1861. Richmond Dispatch. 4 pages. by Cowardin & Hammersley. Richmond. April 27, 1861. microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mi : Proquest. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.

Institute of Museum and Library services National Leadership Grant provided support for entering this text.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Sort places alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a place to search for it in this document.
Rocketts (Virginia, United States) (1)

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide People (automatically extracted)
Sort people alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a person to search for him/her in this document.
D. A. Thomas (1)
Henry Randolph (1)
Jane A. Griffin (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: