 Sampson, a boy of 10 years of age, was dipped in boiling liquor, until all his skin peeled off.Hodge previously had over 100 healthy Negro slaves on his plantation, but when his wife Ann died in 1808, there were no longer enough slaves to dig a grave for her according to witness Daniel Ross.One witness testified that, in three years at least sixty Negroes had been buried, and only one had died a natural death.