Taylor

Taylor, a Black person, was being held in the jail at Mason, Michigan, in August 1866, according to a Detroit dispatch printed in the Daily Union And American. The dispatch says a mob took Taylor from the jail the night before it was reported and hanged them from a tree. Taylor was killed by the mob after being taken from the jail.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched. A Detroit dispatch published in the Daily Union And American reports that a mob took Taylor from the jail at Mason and hanged him from a tree.

Reported by: Detroit dispatch in the Daily Union And American (reporters).

Source

• Daily Union And American, August 29, 1866, page 2 Daily Union And American, August 29, 1866