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a Lodger at the House
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of Mr.
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maketh Oath that she hath known the deced Charles Danks
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an Infant about One Year and seven Months Old whose
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and Mother lodges in the first Floor of said
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Mr. Bush's House about since it was Born that Dept occupies the twi pair of Stairs
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Back Room that between five six OClock in the afternoon
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of Thursday last the deced was in Dept. Room that the
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Mother of the deced came
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up to Dept. Room & took the deced in her Arms & event
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down stairs with it saying she was going to clean it &
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take it an Airing that in a few Minutes after Dept.
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sitting as her Window heard the Mother of the deced cry
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but & say "oh my Child" my Child is gone out of the
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Window" that Dept looked out of her Window & saw the
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deced falling from the One pair of Stairs back Room
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backwards and the back part
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of his Head fell against the stone, in the yard of the
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Home Dept. immediately ran down Stairs and when
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she got at the bottom of her own Stairs she met the Mother
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of the deced coming out of her Back Room without either
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Handkerchief or Cap on appearing to have been droping
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herself that she wrung her Hands and cryed out very
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much Dept. event down into the yard that Mr. Bush
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had got the Child in his Arms that a Doctor who
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had been sent for came soon after that he examined
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the deced that the deced was quite imensible and had
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received a very great Wound on the back part of his Head
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from which a great deal of blood came the Doctor
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dressed the Childs Wound in Mr Bush's Kitchen and then
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it was taken up Stairs and delivered to the Mother
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that the deced lived until Yesterday afternoon about
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four OClock when it departed this Life
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Sworn this
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