Name not reported

A Black man held in a jail was taken from it by a mob on a Saturday night, May 30, 1857, and hanged, according to the Keowee Courier. The paper reported that he was the third person a mob had hanged in connection with the same case. The report gives no name for him.

Cause of death, as reported: Taken from custody and lynched

Source

• Keowee Courier, May 30, 1857, page 2 Keowee Courier, May 30, 1857