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

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Image 138 of 6328th March 1782


MIDDLESEX .
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AN INQUISITION Indented, Taken for our Sovereign Lord the King, at The Parish
of Saint John Wapping in the County of
Middlesex , the Eighth Day of March in the Twenty second 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 Coroners of our said Lord the King for the said County, on View of the Body of
John Ware< no role > then and there lying dead, upon the Oath of
John Goater< no role > This name instance is in a workspace. , John Gray< no role > , Samuel Crook< no role > , William Taylor< no role > , William Elliot< no role > , Benjamin
Robinson
< no role > , Robert Forsyth< no role > , William Lucas< no role > This name instance is in set 4191. , James Powell< no role > , Richard Moore< no role > , William
Neasey and John Finlison< 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 John Ware< no role > came to his
Death, Do, upon their Oath, say, That the said John Ware< no role > on the Fourth Day of
March in the Year aforesaid being in an Open Boat on the River Thames at
Union Hole near Union Stairs in the Parish and County aforesaid And being
endeavouring to shove off the said Beat from a certain Ship called Brigantine then lying there said
called an American Prize It so happened That he the said John Ware< no role > then
and there accidentally [..] fell from the said [..]
[..]

IN WITNESS whereof, as well the said Coroner as the said John Goater< no role > This name instance is in a workspace.
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

Jno. Goater [mark] Foreman




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