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Informations of Witness taken at the parish
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23d. day of Octr. 1798 on view of the
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Town Street Window maketh oath that yesterday
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Shirty afterward she came down Slairs to fetch some
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out & sayed Charles the dead was on
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This occasioned the mother to go up to them & dept
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followed her as last as the could up to the apartment where
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the & her Children lived & there she saw the mother
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end caug. to
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ust the flames up he Childs death.
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assistd & the flames were
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The Child was must
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burned Every assistance was given to the Child
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he died
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in a few hours.
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Sworn the 23d. Octr. 1798
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before me T. Shelton Corr}
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