Middlesex Coroners:
Coroners' Inquests into Suspicious Deaths
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1st September 1747 - 13th June 1803

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Image 64 of 63221st August 1781


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An Inquisition indented taken for our Sovereign Lord the King at the Parish [..]
in the County of Middlesex the Twenty first Day of August in the Twenty first Year of
the Reign of our Sovereign Lord George the third by the Grace of God of Great Britain
France and Ireland King Defender of the Faith and so forth before Thomas Phillips< no role >
one of the Coronors of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body
of Tamar Johnson then and there lying dead upon the oath of Samuel Noble< no role > , William
Walland George Smith< no role > John Dell< no role > , Robert Crosby< no role > John Billing< no role > Joseph Matthews< no role > , Williams
Mason Robert Polly, John Fisher< no role > , William Hobkirk, James Whiteacre, John Trundle< no role > , William Piper< no role >
John Fitzwick< no role > , Joseph Winterborn< no role > , John Johnson< no role > , James Drisdale< no role > John King< no role > and Thomas
Hamston , good and lawful men of the said County, duly Chosen, and who being then and there
duly Sworn and Charged to inquire for our said Lord the King, when, how and by what means
the said Tamar Johnson Came to her Death, Do upon their Oath, Say, That the said Tamar
Johnson on the Twentieth Day of August in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune fell into The New River near Wet Willow Bridge in the Parish
and County aforesaid and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated unto
drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning she the said Tamar Johnson then
and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath aforesaid do say That the
said Tamar Johnson in Manner and by the means aforesaid accidentally, casually
and by Misfortune Came to her Death

In Witness Whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said Samuel Noble< no role > , the Foreman of the said
Jurors, on the behalf of himself and the rest of his said Fellows, in their Presence, have to this Inquisition
Set their Hands and Seals, the Day and Year first above Written.

Thos. Phillips< no role > [mark] Coroner

Samuel Noble< no role > [mark] Foreman




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