In Which Robert Abernathy Serves on a Jury
13 March 1662/3, Charles City Co., VA
p.383 A Jury of Inquest impanelled the 13th of March 1662 to deliv'r their opinion concerning the death of a man belonging to mr Theoderick Bland, Esqr, who was drowned and taken up a mer'chts hope: Mr James Blamor foreman, Mr Ricd Dodd, Mr Tho" Holford, Mr Edd Ames, Mr Rowland Jones, Tho: Cuerton, Mr James Wallis, Geo: Mayden, Mr Tho; Douglas, Rbt Abernathy, Mr Patrick Jackson. We of the Jury do unanimously agree and give our verdict that the oxe standing upright in the boate with striveling pulled out of the thofts of the boate and splitt her, and by that meanes the man was drowned.
Fleet, Beverly, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, Volume III, p. 276 (Charles City County Court Orders, 1661-1664): 1988 Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, originally published in 1937 and 1949 by mimeograph. Reproduced on Family Archive CD #503 (Genealogical Records: Colonial Virginia Records, 1600s-1700s).
Transcribed by Margaret Ogilvie