Abbreviations used
Date January 27 1879
County Saint John
Place Saint John
Newspaper The Daily Telegraph
The language of the text is the original used in the newspaper entry and as transcribed by Daniel F. Johnson. Records acquired by the Provincial Archives are not translated from the language in which they originate.
A colored man named James PETERSON was found dead in a house occupied by a woman named HARTLEY at Jordan River near Shelburne Co., N.S. on the 16th. The verdict of the coroner's jury was that he came to his death from exposure, neglect and want of sufficient nourishment.