Jerrett

A mob of about five hundred people gathered at the jail in Augusta, Georgia, in August 1851 and demanded the keys, according to a Southern newspaper account reprinted in The National Era. The sheriff refused to hand them over, so the crowd broke open the doors, took Jerrett from the jail and hanged him from a pine tree behind the building. Jerrett, a Black man, was held at the Augusta jail when he was taken and killed.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. The National Era, reprinting a Southern newspaper, reports that a mob of about five hundred broke into the Augusta jail after the sheriff refused to surrender the keys and hanged Jerrett from a pine tree behind the jail.

Reported by: The National Era (reporters).

News report

• The National Era, August 28, 1851, page 2 The National Era, August 28, 1851