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maketh Oath That the
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Week being committed in order to be passed to her proper place of
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Settlement - That the deced was an elderly Woman about Sixty
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two Years of Age and appeared very ill when she come to the
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she had been very much distressed - Dept. say, the deced appeared
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last the deced was taken ill with a pain in her Bowels Dept.
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acquainted the Surgeon of the Prison of it who saw the deced and
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sent her Medicine for her complaint which the look - That the
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deced continued ill until Yesterday Morning when the departed
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Sworn this 5th day of September
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