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@dinah_inquest_documents:collection {title: "Dinah Inquest Documents", creator: ["Jury of Inquest", "Daniel Upham"], institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1768_12_16, language: "en", subjects: ["Inquests", "Death investigation", "African American history", "New Haven County", "Legal documents"], description: "Documents related to the inquest of Dinah, a negro woman, whose death was investigated in New Haven, Connecticut on December 16, 1768.", place: [@new_haven_connecticut, @middlesex_county_connecticut]}
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@dinah:person {race: "African American", gender: "female", status: "deceased"}
@daniel_upham:person {title: "Judge of the Peace", role: "Judge"}
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@inquest_event:event {when: @date_1768_12_16, where: @new_haven_connecticut, subject: @dinah}
@sickness:concept {description: "Death caused by sickness"}
@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject index field for New Haven County Superior Court files concerning Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}
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@francis_brown:person {role: "juror"}
@james_gilbert:person {role: "juror"}
@joseph_munson:person {role: "juror"}
@stephen_alling:person {role: "juror"}
@edwain_job_smith:person {role: "juror"}
@john_snowbridge:person {role: "juror"}
@abiathar_camp:person {role: "juror"}
@elijah_allen:person {role: "juror"}
@stephen_browne:person {role: "juror"}
@saml_priestley:person {role: "juror"}
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@jury_of_inquest -> summoned on -> @date_1768_12_16 {where: @new_haven_connecticut}
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@daniel_upham -> presided over -> @inquest_event
@jury_of_inquest -> investigated -> @dinah
@dinah -> cause_of_death -> @sickness
@jury_of_inquest -> verdict -> @dinah {status: "deceased"}We the subscribers being summoned as a Jury of Inquest to inquire of the Cause & Manner of the Death of Dinah, a negro woman whose body on the 16th Day of December 1768 was found a corpse in the Town of New Haven, the County of Middlesex and being duly sworn before Daniel Upham Esq. Judge of Peace for said County having made inquiry as to the Cause and Manner of the Death of said Dinah we do find by evidence that her death was occasioned by sickness which by evidence appears she has been hitherto free of, and that her death was not brought on by any violence but by the Providence of God. As witness our hands and oath the 16th Day of December 1768 in New Haven Aftemoon John Hatchhief Thomas Howell Francis Brown James Gilbert Joseph Munson Stephen Alling Edwain Job Smith John Snowbridge Abiathar Camp Elijah Allen Stephen Browne Sam'l Priestley
Verdict of Jury of Inquest Dinah - Negro New Haven Dec 1768
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