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@joseph_simon_inquest_collection:document {title: "Joseph Simon Inquest Collection, 1773", creator: @josiah_migges, institution: @connecticut_state_library, created: @date_1773_04_04, subjects: ["Inquests","Death investigation","Native American history","Legal documents","New Haven County"], description: "Collection containing documents related to the inquest of Joseph Simon, an Indian man found dead in Guilford, Connecticut in April 1773.", place: [@guilford_connecticut, @new_haven_connecticut]}
@josiah_migges:person {role: "Recorder/Collector"}
@joseph_simon:person {ethnicity: "Native American", status: "deceased"}
@guilford_connecticut:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
@new_haven_connecticut:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
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@new_haven_superior_court:organization {type: "court", jurisdiction: @new_haven_county, abbreviation: "NHSC"}
@new_haven_county:place {state: @connecticut, country: @united_states}
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@joseph_simon_inquest_collection -> contains -> @file_rg003_nhsc_baai_ps_inquests_simon_002_tif
@inquest_report:document {title: "Inquest Report of Joseph Simon", date: @date_1773_08_12, author: @josiah_migges, recipient: @new_haven_superior_court, location: @guilford_connecticut}
@josiah_migges -> wrote -> @inquest_report
@inquest_report -> reports death of -> @joseph_simon
@jury_of_twelve:organization {type: "jury", count: 12, purpose: "inquest"}
@new_haven_superior_court -> convened -> @jury_of_twelve
@jury_of_twelve -> investigated -> @joseph_simon
@verdict:document {type: "verdict", content: "fatal verdict", signed_by: @foreman_jury}
@jury_of_twelve -> delivered -> @verdict
@foreman_jury:person {role: "foreman"}
@nhsc_baai_cases_papers_subject:concept {description: "Subject-index field for New Haven County Superior Court files involving Black, African American, and Indigenous cases and papers"}To the Honorable Superior Court to be Holden at N. Haven on 12th Sunday of August, 1773. May it Please Your Honours, Having heard of the sudden death of Joseph Simon an Indian man on 4th day of April last past—who was found dead in Guilford I forthwith impaneled a jury of twelve men who were sworn in pursuant to law to inquire into the cause of his death at which Inquest I attended & jurors on 4th place where the said Joseph Simon was found dead—the jurors all agreed to the fatal verdict which they directed their foreman to sign and it was delivered to me as their verdict to which they all assented—which I herein inclose to your Hon. I have since observed by the law the jurors ought all to be signed in but as they had remote from each other I have not had opportunity to collect them together & as the affair is without any suspicion of violence I have neglected that part which I hope your Hon. will excuse. I am May it please your Most Humble Servant, Josiah Migges
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