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here lying Dead
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maketh oath that she hath known
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the deced
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between three and four Weeks
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that she was also a Prisoner in the said prison-that
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about
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the hour of One this Morning the deced who slept in the same
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Ward with Dept. called for
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a fellow Prisoner who slept by
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her (the deced) but the Woman who slept with the deced
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not answering Dept. went to the deced the deced asked for
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some Water-Dept. handed it towards her but she could not
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take and appeared to be in a fit and found and for that
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at the Month that Dept. took the deced in he Arms the deced
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struggled a little and sayed she was seized with Death
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that she continued in Depts. Arms about ten Minutes
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when she prayed to God to bless her fellow Prisoner and
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in about ten Minutes after she departed this Life.
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Sworn this 6th. day of July 1793
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her
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