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Informations of a witnesses taken at His
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now here lying dead.
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maketh oath and saith that he hath
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about fifteen
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Trial for a felony that he has been in the sick
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Ward for the last fifteenth day ill of a fever that he
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was regularly attended by five Gentleman of the
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disorder occasioned his deaththat he died about
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one of the Clock this Morning.-
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Sworn this 23rd day of August
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1796 before me}
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