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of December 1793 on view of the Body of
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now here lying Dead
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Edward Shelton
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for Debt-that she
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has been ill the whole of that time with a Dropsy and spit
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very much-that she was so ill as to keep to Her Bed
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the whole of that time-that she continued to get worse
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daily until this Morning about Eight OClock when
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she departed this Life that she was attended by the
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of the said Gaol during her illness and
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had as much care of taken of her as the situation of
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the Gaol could admit of and Dept. has no doubt
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the aforesaid disorder occasioned the deceds Death
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her
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Sworn this 24th. day of December 1793
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