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Fourteen White Witnesses Sign An Affidavit Affirming That A Negro Man’s Death Was By “Visitation Fr

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Fourteen White Witnesses Sign An Affidavit Affirming That A Negro Man’s Death Was By  “Visitation Fr
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Manuscript Document Signed by fourteen witness. One page, 7 3/4”x 12 1/2”. New York. January 26, 1809. The document reads, in part:
“ … William Willess Coroner for the Said City and County Upon the View of the body of Murry Doty a black man then and there lying dead … Upon the oaths of … Good and lawfull men of the city … being sworn and charged to enquire on the part of the people of the state of New York when where how and after what manner the said Murry Doty came to his death Do say upon their oaths Aforesaid that the said Murry Doty on the twenty sixth day of January … was found dead in the said second ward and he having no marks appearing on his body or elsewhere that he died by the visitation of God in a natural way … ” The Fourteen witnesses have signed and affixed their seal to the bottom of document in two rows of seven. Some toning and numerous blind-embossed seals, some of which have cut document at points.