Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st May 1781 - 31st December 1799

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Image 79 of 7121st February 1782


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An Inquisition [..]
[..] Day of [..]
Reign of our [..] Britain, France and Ireland, KING, [..]
the Faith, Etc. before [..] one of the Coroners of Our [..]
KING, for the said County, on view of the [..] [..] Higgason
then and there lying dead, upon the oath of Robert Hexter Roger
Haward William Stony Richard Wells< no role > Edward Oliver< no role > Mark Hollis< no role >
John Parker< no role > John Corker< no role > James Brown< no role > William Gifford< no role > Edward Argnis< no role >
Jonathan Hilton< no role > and James Anderson< no role >

good and lawful Men of the said County duly chosen as by Law required, and who being then and there duly sworn
and charged to enquire for our said Lord the KING, when, how, and by what means the said Allen Higgason< no role >
came to h er Death, Do upon their Oath say, That the said Adam Higgason< no role >
on the Fifth Day of February in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually
and the Misfortune fell into a Ditch of Water and Mind in the Parish and
County aforesaid And was therein suffocated and Smothered Of which said
Suffocation and Smothering he the said Allen Higgason< no role > then and there died
And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid Do say That the said
Allen Higgason< no role > in Manner and by the Means aforesaid accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune came to his Death

In Witness whereof, as well as the said Coroner, as the said Robert Heater< no role > the Foreman of
the said Jurors on behalf of himself and the rest of his Fellows, in their presence, have to this Inquisition set their
Hands and Seals the Day and Year first abovementioned

E: Umfreville [mark] Coronr.

R Hexter [mark] Foreman.




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