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

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Image 70 of 63225th September 1781


MIDDLESEX
(To wit)}


AN INQUISITION indented, taken for our sovereign Lord the King, at the Parish
of Saint Catherine [..] in the County of
Middlesex , the Twenty fifth Day of September in the Twenty first Year of the Regin 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 Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
Isaac Pettinger< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Garey< no role > William Hall< no role > , Joseph Wilson< no role > , James Randall< no role > , Jacob Engleback< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Frankson< no role >
John Habijam< no role > , William Newport< no role > , John Greatorex< no role > , Thomas Weatherley< no role > , John Sterme< no role > , Thomas
Heading, William Davis< no role > and Christian Peterson< no role >
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 Isaac Pettenger< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That The said Isaac Pettinger< no role > on the Eighteenth
Day of September in the Year aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune
fell from a certain Ship called The Sally then lying on the River Thames at Tower
Chain into the said River and was in the Waters thereof then and there suffocated
and Drowned of which said Suffocation and Drowning he the said Isaac
Pettinger then and there died And so the Jurors aforesaid upon their Oath
aforesaid Do say That the said Isaac Pettinger< no role > in Manner and by the Means
aforesaid accidentally, casually and by misfortune came to his Death

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Garey< 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

John Garey< no role > [mark] Foreman




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