Herkimer County, New York
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Obituaries

CLAY, Sally Ann, daughter of Mrs. CLAY, of Little Falls, N. Y., was killed July 19, when a window fell on her. She was 9 yrs. of age. (Aug. 1, 1831) Source: National Intelligencer, as pub. in the NGSQ, vol 55, No. 1, March 1967, submitted by K. Torp Slave to Nicholas Staring Herkimer, January 11. Shocking Catastrophe A Negro Boy about fifteen years old, slave to Nicholas Staring, of the town of Schuyler, in the County of Herkimer, having been lately found dead, and precipitatedly buried, which occasioned a strong suspicion in the neighborhood, that his death was the effect of cruelty and violence. On the 2d day January instant, the Coroner summoned a jury, and had the body taken up and examined, and went into an extensive and particular examination of witnesses, whereupon the Jury pronounced, that he had been murdered by his master the said Nicholas Staring, who has since been apprehended, and is now secured in Herkimer gaol. [Source: Otsego Herald, January 21, 1802]

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