Extract from the Gazette, 1742
Printed in The Pennsylvania Gazette, February 24, 1742.

On Saturday last William Bullock was committed to the Goal of this City, on Suspicion of having been the Occasion of the Death of his Negro Boy, about 8 Years old, by beating and whipping him at sundry Times. The Coroner’s Inquest upon view of the Body, were of Opinion the Injuries the said Boy had receiv’d from his Master, were the Cause of his Death.

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