[Document]: 1815 Cumberland County, Maine Coroner's Jury Report on a Woman's Suicide

Poland, Maine: 1815.

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Unbound. Manuscript document dated 1 November 1815. Folio. Approximately 7.75" x 13". Old folds, irregular right margin not affecting any text, very good. Paper seals affixed with wax. The report states that after viewing the body of Sarah Lane, "...there lying dead, ..." the jury finds that she "...did, at said Poland on the first day of November current, by cutting her own throat with a razor, being insane... ." The document is signed by Philip Chandler, the coroner, Willard H. Woodbury, the jury foreman, and the members of the all-male jury: Moses Emery, Ezra Britt, James Dunbar, Ephraim Hartwell, Ezekiel Loring, John H. Bartlett, Moses Bayley, Andrews Dwinell, Simeon Tufts, Joseph Rayners, and Daniel Moody.

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Item #411027 [Document]: 1815 Cumberland County, Maine Coroner's Jury Report on a Woman's Suicide