London

Depositions of Witnesses taken at London
that is to say at the Parish of Saint Botolph
Billingsgate in the Ward of Billingsgate in
London aforesaid the 12th. day of May 1790
on view of the body of Robert Pearson< no role > then
and there lying dead

John Quakley< no role > a Preferable Tiderman belonging to the Custon
house and a Ledger at No. 62 white horse Street Stephney in
the County of Middlesex maketh Oath that the hath known the
deceased Robert Pearson< no role > near two Years that he was also a
preferable Tiderman belonging to the Cudom house-that he was in
company with the deced about the hour of nine in the Night of Monday
last upon Cocks Quay in the Parish of Saint Botolph Billingsgate
that be left the deced on the Quay and went on board a Nepel which
he was then looking after that the deced appeared somewhat
intoxicated-that the deced had been boarded on a Nepel that had come
from Gravesend about two or three days before that soon after
Dept had left the deced he heard something fall into the water
between said Quay and the Da [..] Nessel Dept. was on board of that
it was high Water at the time that Dept. immediately halloed to the
Watchman belonging to said Quay and asked him if he knew what had
fallen into the Water who sayed no unless it was the Person who
had been on the Quay about five Minutes before that Dept. thinking
it was the deced immediately went to the Place where he heard the
spaching in the Water and [..] by the Light of the Watchmans
lanthern he discovered a Hat but could not get at it that Dept.
then thought it to be deceased that had fallen [..] into the
Water that the next day about the hour of nine in the Morning
he saw the deced lying dead in a Boat near the said Quay.

Sworn the 12 May 1790
before T: Shelton Corr

John Quakley< no role >

Henry Dickinson< no role > at Lighter noon and a Ledger at No.17 Idol lane
maketh Oath-that between the hours of seven and eight in the Morning
of yester day the 11th. instant he took the deced up out of the Water
between Cocks's Quay and fresh Wharf -that the deced appeared
as if he [..] had been but little white in the Water that there were
no marks of violence about him.

Sworn the 12 May 1790
before me T. Shelton Corr.

Henry Dickinson< no role >