Jones County NcArchives Court.....Thompson - Inquest, David 1866 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jo Huettl johit@suddenlink.net November 3, 2009, 6:09 pm Source: Nc Archives & History Written: 1866 Series CR57 Box 928.1 Jones County Mis. Records at State Archives in Raleigh, NC) (On Backside of Page 1) Coroners Inquest Over the dead body Of David Thompson July 17th 1866 To Supr Court Fall Term 1866 Page 1 State of North Carolina Jones County Be it remembered that on the 17th day of July 1866 I Robt M. Bridges Coroner of said County attended by a jury of good and lawful men viz J.D. May, Wm Stewart, Thos. E. Pritchett Asa B. Mallard, James Griffin, Peter Felton, F.C. Gooding, David King, J.N. Shuts, J.L. Philips, Emmanuel King and W. Gilbert by me summoned for that purpose according to law after being by me duly sworn and empannelled at David Thompson (cold) in the County aforesaid did hold an inquest over the dead body of David Thompson and after inquiring unto the facts and circumstances of the death of the deceased from a view of the coops and all the testimony to procured the Jury find as follows. That is to say Witnefs Simon Miller duly sworn that he was at the fence near the house of David Thompson and went there to stay the night on the 16th day of July 1866 and during the night he awoke and saw a man on the fence near him hollowing to some one at the door to break it open and then the man on the fence went to the house and then he heard the report of a fire arm. Then two men come back to the fence and got on a horse or mule he did not know which and went the road toward the Town of Trenton. Witnefs Amos Thompson duly sworn. That he was in the house of David Thompson on the night of the murder and in the night there was some person File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/jones/court/thompson1203wl.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 2.2 Kb