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Depositions of witnesses taken at the
Borough of Southwark that is to say at
the Work house of the Parish of Saint Olave
situate in the Parish of Saint John Situate
in the Borough aforesaid the 29 day of
October 1790 on view of the body of Joseph
Hargrave< no role > now here lying dead

Richard Coleman< no role > an Apprentice to the Owners of
the Snow Sally belonging to Selby in Yorkshire whereof
Nathaniel Pannel< no role > in Master now lying in the River
Thames at Gun & Shot Wharf situate in the parish of
Saint Olave in the Borough of Southwark maketh Oath that
the deced was a Mariner belonging to said Vessel that the
deced has belong: to the said Vessel about three Months
that about the hour of four in the Morning of Wednesday
last the 27th instt: the deced was getting up the Bows of said
Vessel from a Boat lying a the [..] the Bows of said Vessel
that the deced & Dept. were the only persons in the said Boat
they having been employed to carry a Rope out to
haul the said Vessel a head to get nearer the said Wharf
that as the deced was getting up the Bows of said Vessel
by some means his feet dept from under him and he fell
between the Vessel and the Boat into the Waterand dept
that he sank under the Water immediately and Dept. saw
nothing more of the deced until between the hours of nine
and ten the same Morning when the deced was taken up
out of the Water or little distance from where he fell into
the Water quite dead that the deced falling into the
Water as before mentioned happened intirely by accident
as before stated

Sworn the 29th day of October
1790 before me}

T. Shelton
Corr.

his
Richard [mark] Coleman< no role >
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