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Thursday Evening last at the Green Lettice Public House
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that he appeared very much intoxicatedDept left him
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information that Webb had fallen over board from
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the said VesselDept. went to the Quay and then on
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board the said Vesselthat Webb was lying on the Hatches
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that he was taken into the Cabbin of Dept. Vessel and then
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strippedthe deced after he was stripped appeared to
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recover and sayed he would go to Bed he accordingly
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got into Bed after he was in Bed he sayed he was very cold
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