Reel 88-3426 R-495
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Coroner of Essex County, 1778-1796 Digital
FOUND IN:
Baker Library Special Collections and Archives, Harvard Business School
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Collection:
Heard family business records
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Series:
Series I. Heard Family Business Records
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Sub-Series:
Subseries A. John Heard 1st (1744-1834)
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Sub-Series:
1. Administrative Records, 1734-1888
Item — Multiple ContainersIdentifier: Mss:766 1754-1898
Scope and Contents:
Contains papers related to John Heard's tenure as a coroner of Essex County, dated 1778-1796, including his appointment by the state, summons to the constable to convene jurors to conduct inquests, inquisition indentures, juror receipts and lists, and accounts of charges incurred by the inquisition, such as a gravedigger's bill. Several cases of unnamed women were found by the jurors to be a suicides by hanging. The March 29, 1781, summons to view the body of an African American man named...